Working the real stuff... a supported housing community at Waiohiki - a place that might have a 'P-free whare' status... the Waiohiki Creative Arts Village... addressing suspicion and distrust... looking for keys to unlock a system set on assuming the worst... the Eagles Foundation of USA... the Mokai Whanau Ora project, Aotearoa... "working for things other than money"... working for a high traction entry into 2005...
Edge Message #73 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY EDGE MEETS CENTER When Kevin Roberts and I deduced the edge metaphor for New Zealand seven years ago and conceived a global network of New Zealanders, …
"…At the conclusion of the haka two of the warrior group stepped forward and placed upon the ground a black guitar case. They opened the case and fell back into line. The challenger, eyes flashing, gesticulated to the visitor to pick up the contents. He did so; it was a 12 string Maton 425 "acoustic electric" guitar. The legendary guitarist and rock icon Joe Walsh had just accepted the first challenge of the 'Sinners Tour' a project initiated by Mokai Whanau Ora, designed to raise awareness about methamphetamine use in New Zealand and to bring a message of hope, in that , with help, recovery is possible."
Edge Message #72 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Greetings from our Antipodes, New York City (NYNZ, center/edge) Nga Kupu Aroha: Words of Love This is a love story from Aotearoa, the world’s geographical edge; …
"Life was cool, busy, and pretty low stress until when, two years ago, a friend, a Black Power leader, in a bout of methamphetamine induced psychosis took a knife and gutted himself. His death was a shock, both in manner and cause. When the news reached me I drove through the night and arrived at dawn at the gates of his ancestral marae where he lay, in state. There, beside him I stayed, in the Maori way, with his family and child and relatives and friends, and gang brothers, for the days of mourning, speeches and prayers, haka and song, until the time came to return him to his mother papatuanuku, the earth. And the emotion of these days fired my desire for action, kia whakarite, the desire to put things right."
Edge Message #71 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Greetings. A brisk memo today. News of New Zealanders reported around the planet: /category/newzedge/ Obituaries for Robert Burchfield (custodian of the English language), Rahera Windsor (spiritual …
Edge Message #70 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Welcome to new members at nzedge.com, from Aarhus, Adelaide, Apia, Athens and Atlanta as well as Auckland, Akaroa and Ashburton and other local and global locations. …
Edge Message #69 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM 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 …
Edge Message #68 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY DECEMBER’S LIST OF NEW WORLD MODERNISTS IN THE GLOBAL MEDIA: Director! Director! Peter Jackson’s Return of the King everywhere, Weta Workshop, Wellywood, Russell Crowe Master & …
Edge Message #67 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY night Frank Glasgow sat down at the piano and composed music to describe the English style of play; it went – plonk plonk plonk plonk, plonk …
Edge Message #66 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY “Back yourself, Give it a go, Anticipate, Draw, Back Up, Re-invent, Challenge, Change.” Lloyd Jones, The Book of Fame. This dictum might apply to the theory …
Edge Message #65 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Our placing of sporting heroes on a pedestal above all others has traditionally been something of a national myopia. A one-eyed view, squinting into the sharp …
Edge Message #64 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY AOTEAROA WHANAU WHANUI KI TE AONUI “I have always been caught by a sense of being part of the cutting edge, the edge which guarantees change.” …
The design of cultural identity; the brand state; the dream thing. These are significant areas for discussion. I have definite points of view, and I appreciate the opportunity to share them. I wear many hats; as an information architect, publisher …
Edge Message #63 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY: http://www.transmit.co.nz Talofa lava, Taloha ni, Taalofa, Malo e lelei, Ni sa bula vinaka, Kia orana, Kia manuia, Fakaalofa lahi atu … kia ora, G’day. Today the …
Edge Message #62 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY SHORT VERSION: MAY’S LIST: Sir Ed, the Anzacs, Richard Pearse, Maurice Wilkins, Peter Jackson, Niki Caro, Roger Donaldson, Lloyd Jones, Possum Bourne, The Datsuns, D4, Alan …
Edge Message #61 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY The New Zealand Edge explores our place in the world, a position that right now feels like privilege and sanctuary. Te Rangi Hiroa/Sir Peter Buck is …
Edge Message #60 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY The edge metaphor is our way of situating New Zealand in the world. This month, two new speeches assert that the world needs to know about …
Edge Message #59 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Welcome to 2003 from the edge. As unsettling winds blow globally, the Aotearoa advantage and geography has never been so prescient. Today we bring you: TOP …
Edge Message #58 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM NEW ZEALAND EDGE VISUAL STORIES: Today we are proud to bring you a major update to the New Zealand Edge website experience. ‘Imagery’ is a series of picture galleries beginning to tell …
Edge Message #57 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY: NZEDGE.COM has just hit the million page download milestone since inception. 28,000 NZ Heroes stories downloaded in September. Thanks for the traffic. Thanks for your mail. Published …
Edge Message #56 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY: The kowhais and kaka-beaks beginning to bloom herald a not-too-distant summer (or the fading of one up over). Welcome to the influx of new friends at …
Edge Message #55 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY: TODAY, fresh news from the world media about New Zealanders leading, winning, creating, solving, singing, scoring and chopping. /category/newzedge/ SOURCED from BBC, the Guardian, Wired, Boston Globe, …
Edge Message #54 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY: Content download from the edge of the planet: Middle earth, moulding faces and modern art. Today nzedge.com brings you the fascinating stories of three artists in wildly …
Edge Message #53 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY: 1350 words so please stick with it. Today: 1. Newzedge: 120 global online media ref to nz achievement /category/newzedge/ 2. Re-Entry: brand new Coming/Leaving Home stories https://www.nzedge.com/hot/coming_home_responses.html …
Edge Message #52 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Greetings, The NZEdge site has had a spring clean (or autumn if you’re here) – check out the pohutukawa-clad cliff on the new front- page http://www.nzedge.com. Big cheers to designer …
Edge Message #51 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY PUBLISHED TODAY: Kiwi sharpness on show in the world’s online media /category/newzedge/ (72 items and links, see more below) Edgy opinion and affirmation in the NZEDGE Mailbox …
Edge Message #50 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Today we open the doors on an eclectic range of products that celebrate the ready creativity of our South Seas’ paradise. We hope that the range that …
Edge Message #49 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Welcome to New Zealand Edge 2002. Today we bring you hot news, a bright preview, and a deep remembrance. HOT KIWIS AROUND THE GLOBE The creative industries …
Edge Message #48 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY TO GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF NEW ZEALANDERS Merry Christmas from the city of Middle- earth-on-the-edge, if I can mix metaphors. Hit your printers for holiday reading: NEW HERO …
Edge Message #47 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Greetings. New today on New Zealand Edge is a Links page; we’ve started with 24 websites relating to edge theory, New Zealanders overseas (clubs, networks, friendship societies), …
Brian Sweeney address to Long Bay College Prizegiving, North Shore, Auckland, November 14, 2001. I am honoured to be here. It’s great to be with such a large group of people. Congratulations to the prize winners on your performance, your …
Edge Message #46 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM GLOBAL COMMUNITY POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE We publish today a new Edge Mailbox, 100- plus messages affirming New Zealandness, celebrating edge spirit and heroes, aroha, being homesick and being here. This …
Edge Message #45 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM GLOBAL COMMUNITY Greetings and welcome to the many, many people who have registered and sent mail in response to our full page ad in the Sunday Star Times “The Global Community …
Edge Message #44 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM GLOBAL COMMUNITY Two new stories in NZEDGE HOT: Kiwis generating heat: https://www.nzedge.com/hot/index.html “Sceptic Showman” looks through the lens at the “brilliant” and “startlingly original” techno-paranoid future vision of Oscar nominated scriptwriter/director Andrew …
Edge Message #43 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Today in HEROES we offer you the story of Joseph Nathan, a New Zealand entrepreneur with extraordinary foresight. In 1906 he founded Glaxo, producer of the dried …
Edge Message #42 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Today news of tough-nut New Zealand achievers from the online editions of The Times, Japan Times, Times of India, The Guardian, The Scotsman, The Independent, The Age, …
Edge Message #41 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZ EDGE GLOBAL GROOVERS This is a longish message please read it all, I promise it’s worth it. META MAILBOX Today we have the best mailbox ever, 72 messages, go right to …
Edge Message #40 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Still here, been busy. In NEWZEDGE today, stories of intrepid Kiwis about the globe from the online editionsof The Times, Japan Times, Times of India, The Guardian, …
Edge Message #39 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY CITIZENS OF THE EDGE ROCK THE WORLD Today in newzedge, culled from the online editions of The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Age, Boston Herald, …
Edge Message #38 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY IN NEWZEDGE TODAY Hot global goss about Sylvia Cartwright, Russell Crowe, Neil Finn, Lucy Lawless, Harry Mahon, soprano Rebecca Ryan, Palliser Estate, King Kopsi, Sam Neill, Capt …
Edge Message #37 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE AUCKLAND COMMUNITY FYI, I am making a presentation this Wed 11 April on The New Zealand Edge as part of the FutureNZ seminar series http://www.futurenz.com/ 5.45pm start, NZI Convention Centre, Aotea Centre …
Edge Message #36 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY We’re still here, under the beating Wellington sun. It’s drought here, warmth as reliable as LA. This is, after all, Movietown NZ. Academy Award town. Pacific edges …
Edge Message #35 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Today’s download of news, views, provocations and affirmations includes: NEWZEDGE 120 stories of New Zealand Edgers scorching the globe: Russell Crowe gets Oscar nom for Gladiator Kerry …
Edge Message #34 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY It’s not too late to say it, so Happy New Year. Bravo to the South Island. I spent an alpine summer holiday there. My wife, who was …
Edge Message #33 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE GLOBAL COMMUNITY RICHARD PEARSE’S LEGEND AS FIRST FLYER Print for the holidays: 2003 will bring the 100th anniversary of the first flights of Richard Pearse and the Wright Brothers. …
Edge Message #32 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO GLOBAL NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY Mind-expanding context published today includes exclamations and exhortations from nzedgers, and stories from the international online media about us and ours. Rock on to the holidays, we publish once …
Edge Message #31 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NEW ZEALAND EDGE WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY The slow burn continues. In NEWZEDGE today 84 stories about New Zealanders putting edge back into the globe: Denis Dutton/arts&letters acclaimed web Dr Johnson Richard “Rocky Horror” …
Edge Message #30 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY This week: Celebrating New Zealanders rocking the globe: /category/newzedge/ Pride in new NZ Nobel Laureate Shihad rock Australia music awards Leilani Joyce squashes UK Open Chris Cairns beats India Michael …
Edge Message #29 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY New Mailbox out today Multi-Continent mail About NZ identity Kiev to Kosovo Auckland to Alexandra Valley Forge to Venice Beach 67 messages, raps, requests, ideas Response to NZ at the …
Edge Message #28 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY Greetings. On Friday Kevin Roberts spoke to the Resource Management Law Conference in Auckland. He was the opening speaker and was asked to address “At the Edge: Vision for New …
Edge Message #27 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY SHORT AND SWEET THIS WEEK: 64 NEW EDGE STORIES FROM THE GLOBAL PRESS INCLUDING: Tua readies for Kiri dazzles Dallas Team NZ seeded first Rings Rings Rings Flaming Kerry Fox …
Edge Message #26 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY “I live at the edge of the universe, like everybody else. Sometimes I think congratulations are in order…” – Bill Manhire, from The Milky Way Edge Message #28: four sets …
Edge Message #25 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY GLOBAL NEWS More Kiwis rock the globe this week. Over 80 new items in NEWZEDGE don’t mind the width, just feel the quality: Kiwi holy boy a reincarnation of venerated …
Edge Message #24 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY We’ve been cooking, and are pleased to serve you up NZEDGE HOT. When Taupo erupted nearly 2000 years ago in the biggest eruption in history, people in Rome and China …
Edge Message #23 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM TO NZEDGE.COM COMMUNITY In the July Mailbox published today you’ll find over 40 messages of affirmation, optimism and provocation. To everyone who has asked “how can I help”, the simplest and best way …
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