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Reading the Maps: March 2005
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Thursday, March 24, 2005. I'm hoping to check it out. On Saturday or Sunday. Posted by maps at 3/24/2005 04:26:00 pm. Links to this post. The smelliest sneakers in America, etc. We've just dumped Internet Explorer for Netscape, in an effort to give some sort of virus the slip (this computer stuff goes right over my head), and are taking full advantage of the latter's awesome pop-up news service. Here's today's Netscape News headliner: Vermont Boy's Sneakers Named Smelliest In America. Links to this post.
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Reading the Maps: A Rough Guide to Anti-travel
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Saturday, May 17, 2008. A Rough Guide to Anti-travel. Last Thursday I gave a guest lecture up at the Albany campus of Massey University. I'd been invited north by Jack Ross. Who had included my blog post 'From Kalmykia to Huntly'. In the coursebook of a paper he teaches on travel writing. My post had discussed 'anti-travel' writing, which I had assumed to be a thriving literary sub-genre. Jack and several other friends have started using the term, and Titus Books. I suppose, then, that I am making a virt...
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Reading the Maps: December 2004
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Thursday, December 23, 2004. Homo Floresiensis and dialectics. Someone with the delightful name Espe Espigares has written an interesting article on the recent discovery of Homo Floresiensis for the In Defence of Marxism. Website. Here's an excerpt:. Read the rest here. Posted by maps at 12/23/2004 01:23:00 am. Links to this post. Monday, December 20, 2004. Historians in tweed sports jackets. Has been having trouble with historians in tweed sports jackets:. I'm steaming at the moment. I went to a. Spent ...
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Reading the Maps: November 2004
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004. Cryptozoologists, place your bets! The other day I noted that Nature magazine thins that cryptozoology can come in from the cold after the discovery on Flores. Seems that some bookmakers agree. HOBBITS CHANGE ALL BETS. Tiny humans are weighed in - what odds Yeti, Nessie, aliens? Approach with caution.). Posted by maps at 11/23/2004 06:13:00 pm. Links to this post. Check out the Valley Voice. Read the first issue of the. Posted by maps at 11/23/2004 02:48:00 pm. In from the cold.
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Reading the Maps: Why paranoid racists make bad historians
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Monday, November 24, 2008. Why paranoid racists make bad historians. Here's my contribution to the discussion occasioned by my article on Nazi Pseudo-History. Scoop Review of Books. Article which I’ve discussed characterises Maori as a 'savage’ people, who have Europeans to thank for whatever happiness they today enjoy. In his rambling tome. Ancient Celtic New Zealand. Martin Doutre calls Maori an ‘inbred’ (pg 284) race whose culture was characterised by ‘uncompromising cruelty’ (ibid.). Doutre calls fea...
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Biography of New Zealand Landscape & Portrait Artist - Romola Richards
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Romola Richards, New Zealand Artist. 8212; Main Menu —. Romola Richards (1919 – 2010). I was thrown in at the deep end so to speak, and sought to discover my own self-expression. – Romola Richards. Four years later she moved to a remote property in Queen Charlotte Sound. She found this (almost) island, a hundred feet above sea level, surrounded on three sides by the sea, rocks and sandy beaches; a paradise so captivating, that it was 25 years later before she returned to Christchurch. Painting is struggl...
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Cultural Icons Resources
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Conversations with iconic people. Alex is a composer, musician and poet, having just completed his Honours in music at Auckland University under John Elmsly and Eve de Castro-Robinson. It is his piece 'Noughts and Crosses' (performed by Somi Kim on piano) you can hear at the beginning of several of the first Cultural Icons audio programmes. Find out more about Alex at www.sounz.org.nz. Essential reading and reference for those interested in New Zealand art. Vast online catalogue available. The Hocken col...
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June | sarahdriscoll's Blog
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Just another WordPress.com weblog. Untitled: Amerika on tape. Untitled: Documentation of Site Specific Work II,. Which explore intervention and tagging within a rural and urban environments. Installation left to right) Untitled: Amerika on Tape. 2009 Masking Tape, Bindex and Ink on Paper 640 x 430 mm (with frame),. Untitled: Documentation of Site-Specific Work II. 2009 Digital C-type on Matte Photographic Paper 455 x 305 mm each. Untitled: Amerika on Tape. Untitled: Amerika on Tape (detail). Whitecliffe ...
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Blog – Wednesday 2nd September | sarahdriscoll's Blog
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Just another WordPress.com weblog. Blog – Wednesday 2nd September. Dear Paul Closing Event and Screening of The Cove. Sunday 6 September 2009, 5.30pm. The Physics Room/The Regent on Worcester. As a supplement to Paul Johns’ environmentally aware exhibition. The Physics Room would like to invite you to attend a screening of. The latest film to tackle head-on the questionable international trade in whales and dolphins and the ineffectiveness of the International Whaling Commission. Narrated by Ric O’Barry,...
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