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TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
AOTEAROVEANS IN
GLOBAL PROFILE
Coverage from the world's online media featuring edge movers and shakers,
including:
Janet Frame RIP, Peter Jackson and team in Return of the King
(everywhere), Keisha-Castle Hughes, Hayley Westenra, Russell Crowe,
Michael Cullen, Black Sox, Black Caps, NZ Sevens, Witi Ihimaera, Christine
Jeffs, Martin Henderson, Cliff Curtis, The Datsuns, Howard Frederick,
Alannah Currie, Andrew Adamson, Sukhi Turner, Carol Owens, Judith Mayhew
Jonas, Lynda Chanwai-Earle, Bob Charles, Black Grace, Maurice Gee, Natalie
McComb, Elizabeth Knox, Callum McLeod, Peter Gordon, Anna Hansen and Brad
Farmerie, NomD, MC Tahi, the Venerable Pong Re Sung Rap Tulku Rinpoche,
edge friends Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Billy Connolly and Tom Cruise,
Opus International, Nelson Wearable Arts, Milford Track, Wellington,
Wanaka, NZ artists at Paradise Now NYC, and NZ wine, cuisine and
Rings-inspired tourism in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Observer,
The Scotsman, The Age, CNN, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, Toronto Star. http://www.nzedge.com/media/index.html
TO THE IS-LAND
nzedge tribute to Janet Frame (d. Dunedin 29 Jan 2004) by editor-at-large
Paul Ward (4000 words): "Mixing and revolving words with the skill of
a warrior handling a Taiaha, novelist Janet Frame made an pre-eminent edge
contribution to international literature, coming as she did from the
peripheries of art and society. Yet her fictional explorations have always
been forays into the interior. For Frame her art and imagining was the
closest she could come to conjuring experience, madness, dreams, identity
and memory, into a coiled reality. The agenda for her prose, wrestling
with the dual/jewel (to borrow a typical Frame word-play) nature of
'truth' entangled in the medium of its expression, is laid out the famous
opening lines of To the Is-land: "From the first place of liquid
darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the
following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of
truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point
is myth.""
http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/frame.html
NZFLAG.COM
From the first day of nzedge we have advocated the adoption of the Silver
Fern as the New Zealand flag. It is an emotionally visceral symbol that
strikes the heart wherever you are in the world. Wellington businessman
and change agent Lloyd Morrison has instigated a campaign to have the
Silver Fern officially installed as the national flag. This is patriotism
at its intelligent best. The design Lloyd has commissioned is swift,
simple, contemporary and resonant. We're 100% behind the effort. Register
your support at www.nzflag.com
A CAFÉ IN THE SKY
This 60 minute documentary/drama about the Gloomy Sunday cult is written
and produced by London-based nzedger Scott Alexander Young. Filmed in
Budapest, A Café In The Sky delves into the legend of Rezso Seress, the
composer of one of Hungary's best known pieces of music, Szomoru Vasamap,
or Gloomy Sunday. Drawing on a phenomenon some 71 years old, this is a
story with universal themes; heartbreak, betrayal, the power of music, and
the heavy burden that is 'talent'. Includes interviews with the Chief
Rabbi of Budapest and 87 year old psychiatrist Dr. Imre Zádor. And
features some of the most exciting talent of the New Europe including Mark
Griffith, Matt Devere, Brandon Krueger, Áron Peterfria, Zita Görög,
Zsanett Nyerky & Andrea Keresztes. Go to www.scottalexanderyoung.com
to download the trailer (70MB).
GEOGRAPHY
Expressing a metaphorical context for New Zealand has been a passion of
mine for some years. I'm especially engaged with creating new visual
language that shows what "edge" means, not only in our
landscapes and signs and symbols but in our relationship with the
international. So I've made a book, called it Geography, it's 100
photographs with a few maps and notes. It's a meditation about edge which
I hope you can enjoy. http://shop.nzedge.com/product.asp?id=963798
Inspirational
line-of-the-month is from The New York Times review of Public, the NoLita
restaurant of Gordon/Hansen/Farmerie: "A high-risk, high-reward
dining proposition. They did not come thousands of miles to bore New York.
Understatement is not in the plan. Sometimes you have to slap people in
the face to get their attention."
Cheers. Hope your 2004
is going well so far, from many angles this is going to be a
transformative year.
Brian Sweeney
Publisher, Producer
THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
http://www.nzedge.com
mailto: brian@nzedge.com
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