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Edge Message #101 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM   NEW: NGA KUPU AROHA: BLOG #24 BY DENIS O’REILLY, JUNE 2008 “Thud and Blunder”: Social commentary from Hawke’s Bay-based community leader Denis O’Reilly about malaise in Aotearoa; about a nation on …

New Zealand artist David Trubridge features at San Francisco’s Natural World Museum in an exhibition entitled Melting Ice: A Hot Topic, which addresses the theme of climate change from a global perspective. Trubridge’s ‘On Thin Ice’ is a series of …

Edge Message #97 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM   New Zealanders in Global Headlines New Zealand headlines in this week’s sampling of global media appearing in International Herald Tribune, Artforum, Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Age, Guardian, Anchorage Daily News, The …

New Zealand lifestyle and design fills 15 pages in this month’s Marie Claire Maison. The French publication’s spread  includes Outpost Hokianga (Rangi Kipa’s Corian Tiki pictured), EON, Stevens Lawson, David Trubridge, Black Barn, Dilana Rugs, 42 Below, Gavin Chilcott, Air …

Former prime minister and World Trade Organisation Director-General Mike Moore has been hired by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman. Moore will chair the Altimo Foundation, one of Fridman’s charitable organisations associated with the telecom arm of the Alfa Group. The foundation will …

Let’s deal with the alleged terrorism and Tuhoe issue. The last sounds heard by those at the controls immediately prior to the airship tragedy at Mt Erebus reportedly were “Whoop whoop, pull up, pull up”. Erebus was in part due to ‘white out’ and the same phenomenon – this time ‘white out’ manifest as the prevalence of a dominant world view rather than as a meteorological circumstance – seems to have metaphorically propelled New Zealand’s ‘ship of state’ into another mountain, Maungapohatu…
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Christine Nottingham and Andrea Peach have opened a gallery-cum-store in San Diego to showcase designs by established and emerging artists from their native NZ. Moana Design on Solana Beach features works by glass artists Peter Viesnik, Garry Nash and Hoglund …

Edge Message #82 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM Kia Ora Aotearoa whanau whanui ki te Aonui Global Community of New Zealanders See our new ad: “There are five million New Zealanders in the world. Some of their stories are at …

Exponents Tourism NZ’s consumer website newzealand.com, designed by Shift, has won the Webby award for best tourism website in the world for a second time. Known as the Oscars of the internet, the Webbys are managed by the International Academy …

Edge Message #76 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM To Members of the Global Network of New Zealanders Greetings to all and especially people who are newly registered at the site, from Auckland to Atlanta and Adelaide, Brisbane to Bogota and …

Fracture, an adaptation of Maurice Gee’s novel Crime Story by Larry Parry, is to make its North American debut at the 28th Montreal World Film Festival (26 August  6 September). Starring Kate Elliott, Jared Turner, John Noble, and Cliff …

Two NZ short films have been selected to compete at both the Montreal World Film Festival in August and the Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain in October; Boy, a silent film about a teenage male prostitute by AUT professor …

The Return of the King has ruled them all at this year’s awards season, having won Oscar glory with 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The final film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy won 4 awards …

26 January 2004 – Peter Jackson may have been a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination, but the inclusion of first-time thespian Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) in the Best Actress category came as a welcome surprise. At just 13 years 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 & …

The usually art-house sympathetic New York Film Critics Circle chose Return of the King as their Best Film of 2003, The American Film Institute named the film in its top-10 of the year. The New York Times’ Elvis Mitchell: “a …

“New Zealand has had a day like no other”. The world premiere of The Return of the King in Wellington outshone all expectations, with a 100,000+ crowd lining the route of the spectacular grand parade in glorious Wellington sunshine. Actor …

Two LA Times features look at the phenomenal success of Peter Jackson’s Miramar-based empire; Weta Digital, Weta Workshop, and the Film Unit. The challenge meeting Jackson’s business is keeping the world-class staff he amassed for the now completed LotR trilogy …

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 …

… off to Switerland. Team New Zealand, led by Dean Barker and defending the Cup for the second time, were eventually beaten 5-0 by the Swiss syndicate Alinghi, led by Kiwis, skipper Russell Coutts and tactician Brad Butterworth. Losing hurts for Team New Zealand who …

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 #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 …

Team NZ captain Dean Barker beat ex-boss Russell Coutts 3-0 in the Swedish Match Cup finals. Coutts is heading Alinghi, Switzerland’s America’s Cup challenger. In other Cup news, Team New Zealand launch the first of their new generation of racing yachts (NZL81) …

Confirming their 3rd place ranking in the ICC World Test Cricket Championship the Black Caps achieved a remarkable milestone with their first ever test series victory against the West Indies on West Indian soil. NZ won the first test by a dominant …

“New Zealand is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest centres for superyacht construction, with its low-cost high-tech designs.” Alloy Yachts is the world’s 2nd largest manufacturer of superyachts: advantages that make the sailing smooth include lower exchange rates and labour costs, complete in-house …

The SMH finds Tem Morrison carrying the antipodean banner in the new Star Wars blockbuster, Episode II: Attack of the Clones – the latest installment of George Lucas’s epic fantasy: “The best chance to shine falls to New Zealand’s Temuera …

Sir Ian McKellen: “I fell for New Zealand rather heavily. It’s not just the environment, though that does do something to your head…it’s discovering the culture, one which is extremely relaxed and liberal”. And as Best Supporting Actor nominee Sir …

Solace for those lamenting that the southern cross didn’t shine brighter on Hollywood’s star spangled banner: “A Beautiful Mind was a Good Film. Not a brilliant film. If Peter Jackson had directed it, it might have been a revelation.” The Guardian’s Xan Brooks describes the  …

Peter Buck’s achievements are astonishing for their diversity: pioneering anthropologist, the first Maori medical doctor, politician, administrator, soldier, sportsperson and leader of the Maori people. Through exploring the cross-cultural advantages…

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 …

“Information Age pioneer,” Alan MacDiarmid and his colleagues discovered that plastics could conduct electricity. Awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for chemistry, he lives by the motto: “I am a very lucky person and the harder I work the luckier I seem to be”…

British-based New Zealand writer Emily Perkins sat on the all-powerful all-girl jury for the Orange Prize, Britain’s major literary award for women only. Also, Perkins comments on the double jury battle of the sexes controversy in Salon.

John Britten was a revolutionary motorcycle designer whose home-brewed machine won international ovations with its stunning design, engineering and performance. The medieval roar of the Britten V1000 motorcycle lingers over the tarmac of Kiwi myth…

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 …

Lord of the Rings producers have played it cool with net marketing – giving away photos and info titbits to keep the fans keen. The redesigned Rings site has already clocked over41 million hits, while teaser trailers pull in cinema crowds.  

The Race, featuring New Zealand skipper Grant Dalton, kicked off in Barcelona on December 31. The giant catamarans are expected to circumnavigate the globe in around 65 days.

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. …

Auckland-developed virtual faces read your email in your own voice. Download for free at lifeFX.com.

Richard Pearse: self-taught inventor, prophetic designer, trail blazing aviator, and eccentric visionary, a modern-day Icarus from down under who, against incredible odds, ingeniously sought the sun and pioneered powered flight…

The plot goes wobbly, but Russell Crowe is the man. Crowe is “a powerful screen presence, the sort of fellow every man wants to befriend and every woman wants to love”: “the movie comes to life anytime Crowe is on …

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 …

Internationally acclaimed New Zealand-born flutist Marya Martin (Winner of the prestigious Young Concert Artists International Auditions) is the flute and artistic artistic director of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. Newsday talks to her about founding the popular festival, (now in …

Rewi Alley: social reformer, educator, fireman, writer, poet, translator, great internationalist, industrialist, revered citizen, potter, hero and friend of China. He is “unique for achieving greatness in a country where few foreigners ever manage to achieve a ripple”…