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Maelstrom

February 3, 2010 by  
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There’s a malestrom building. “A maelstrom is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex that has a considerable downdraft. The Scandinavian word (malström or malstrøm) was introduced into English by Edgar Allan Poe in his story “A Descent into the Maelström” (1841).

Water Water Everywhere

January 26, 2010 by  
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They’ve stayed in my memory for years these lines, actually the entire narrative has. It’s Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. Our old School Principal, Bob Foster taught it to

As We Speak

January 24, 2010 by  
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One of my favourite alto saxophonists is veteran jazz legend David Sanborn, I’ve loved him forever. Well, as long as there’s been an ‘As We

Sixdays Old Graffiti

January 16, 2009 by  
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Continuing on from yesterday’s blog and highlighting some thoughts from the article written by Peter McLennan in 1998 called ‘Bombing Shelter – Graffiti Art in Aotearoa’ (Pavement Magazine) we’re able to read views expressed by graffiti artists and make a note of the efforts of community agencies to minimise the effects of widespread graffiti.

Headspin

November 22, 2008 by  
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It’s funny what your mind gets to thinking and turning over as you drive. Mine was ripping through the gears, packed to the gunnels with unfamiliar names to put together with two or even three times met faces in places best described as the ‘back of beyond’ in that shy way that being new to […]

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