Mere minutes before an interview with one of the most successful and iconic boy bands in history, Five, my laptop decided to cark itself, go kaput. Panicked, I tried unplugging and plugging, unplugging and plugging. The time had just turned 7:58am on a particularly chilly Thursday morning and I was severely lacking in spoons. My […]
With his hands covered in white chalk, 40-year-old Alex Honnold walked stoically up to the ruyi-inspired glass-and-steel façade of one of the tallest buildings on Earth, Taipei 101. 508 metres of bamboo-joints, reflective glass, jagged edges, metal beams and decorative fins, rising above the dense streets of Taiwan’s capital. The weather conditions on the 25th […]
I had heard of Dillistrate in passing, many moons ago, in my rugged uni days. I knew that they were musical royalty. They’ve been heralded before as legends, ‘musical weapons’ on the kiwi music scene for years. The duo…Henare ‘H’ Kaa and Tim, who had worked together for years and years before Dillistrate. Henare and […]
25 years ago, John Bishop stumbled into the brown-bricked Frog & Bucket Comedy Club on Oldham Street in Manchester on a Monday night, slightly depressed after divorcing his then-wife and looking for something to do. There were only a few others in the place. He put his name down on the open mic list and […]
Founded in 1969 in Houston, Texas, the Southern rock-blues-boogie band, ZZ Top, has reigned supreme as one of the greatest rock bands of all time. With 15 studio albums, a raft of awards and a fan-base that continuously stay devoted to the hard-rockers, ZZ Top are very, very hard to beat. Synonymous with long white […]
Stepping into the tiny nook of High Street’s Unity Books Auckland in early October this year, I was greeted with one of my favourite smells in the world. Books. Stacks of them. Glorious, beautiful, stunning books. Floor-to-ceiling cream-coloured shelves displaying thousands of these divine morsels—new releases, top-sellers, fiction, non-fiction, poetry—waiting to be devoured and consumed […]
‘Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable’—Banksy Walking into the Aotea Centre on the very chilly evening of the 7th of July, to attend the opening of ‘The Art of Banksy’, I toyed with the idea of maybe returning home to my wooly slippers, my comfortable dressing gown, a lovely cup of tea. […]
Photography By Trevor Leighton For any artist, to be able to delve, single-handedly, into the cultural sphere, and make a sizable-enough dent that it still resonates 30-something years after its debut, is nothing short of impressive. For the award-winning actor, writer and comedy-legend, Ben Elton, it’s just another day at the office. He’s still going […]
Founded in 1969 in Houston, Texas, the Southern rock-blues-boogie band, ZZ Top, has reigned supreme as one of the greatest rock bands of all time. With 15 studio albums, a raft of awards and a fan-base that continuously stay devoted to the hard-rockers, ZZ Top are very, very hard to beat. Synonymous with long white […]
This Laptop Is Too Tall We’re truly in the age of “how do we make screens bigger without making the rest of the thing bigger. That usually amounts to foldables, but scrollable are also making a break for it in the form of the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 by Lenovo. Simply slide your screen upward […]
What do you get when you cross a world-famous comedian, his 84 year-old dad, and a trip down to NZ? A barrel-full-of-laughs, that’s what! It’s safe to say that Jack and Michael Whitehall—this dynamic duo—are the UK’s funniest men. Period. Full-stop. No questions asked. Jack, with his sweet, butter-wouldn’t-melt laddy charm and tongue-in-cheek jabs is […]
What do you get when you cross a world-famous comedian, his 84 year-old dad, and a trip down to NZ? A barrel-full-of-laughs, that’s what! It’s safe to say that Jack and Michael Whitehall—this dynamic duo—are the UK’s funniest men. Period. Full-stop. No questions asked. Jack, with his sweet, butter-wouldn’t-melt laddy charm and tongue-in-cheek jabs is […]
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. In this context—and stretching out that hackneyed proverb far—when life gives you a bright, bold Hawaiian shirt, you wear it to hopefully serve a sprinkle of personality, a razzmatazz or showmanship, in situations you know for a fact will never occur again in your lifetime. When given […]
Photography by Jimmy Fontaine As a journalist, I feel oftentimes obliged to push away a degree of creativity for the stone-cold facts in my work. Less of the mumbo-jumbo, poetic stuff and more of the nitty-gritty, with a hint of tonal tempering. Once in a blue-moon, though, I do come across opportunities in my career […]
JessB is the type of artist that you just can’t ignore. Defined and dynamic, her poetic, witty and heart-felt lyrics to her highly-acclaimed rap songs act as a breath of fresh air that resonate on multiple levels. Since her break-through debut single in 2017, ‘Soul Free’, and her number of acclaimed projects, Jess has certainly […]
If I were to say to you, dear Reader: ‘Venom’, what images are conjured up in your head? The 2018 rap song by Eminem, perhaps? ‘Venom, (I got that) adrenaline momentum’. Gangster. Or maybe you think of Eddie Brock? Not as gangster as Eminem. Investigative journalist, rather, from Spider-Man’s Marvel-Sony Universe? Ya know, that character […]
Whether it’s from his sky-rocketing role as the lead in Anyone but you (alongside Sydney Sweeney), or next to Tom Cruise in the box-office smash, Top Gun 2: Maverick, or even with Zoey Deutch as the enduring romantic lead in the straight-to-Netflix rom-com, Set It Up, Glen Powell’s versatility and intelligence as an actor sits […]
In my career as a writer for M2, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to some pretty rad people. Conor Mason of UK alt-rock band, Nothing But Thieves, though, takes-the-bloody-biscuit. Hands-down. A punch-the-air moment, for sure. For the first time ever, the hugely successful UK alt-rock collective CAME down to these shores to play to […]
The Olympics are such a beautiful time for everyone. Such a time of togetherness, and unity. You don’t need to be sport-lovers to appreciate the draw of it and the love for the games. Just being in love with watching your country come together and succeed is enough. The Paris Olympics 2024 is just around […]
Hearty, homegrown music is what keeps the music industry alive in New Zealand. That’s a fact. As is Kiwi custom, listening to classic homegrown musicians is a go-to for many a Kiwi playlist. The songs of Dave Dobbyn, Neil Finn, Tiki Taane or The Exponents permeate freely to the sounds of our glorious nation. Being […]
The Hollywood leading man. What a title to hold for any cold-blooded male. Take the names of James Dean, River Phoenix or Leonardo DiCaprio. By nature: talented; by birth: sensitive, charming, ambitious, forever-relevant, hard-working, goal-driven, and publicly averse. Whether you call him an art-house stalwart for his breath-taking performance in Call Me By Your Name, […]
On the night of 7 of December 2023, Mike Kerr—the lead singer of one of the biggest rock bands in the UK, Royal Blood—stood on the Spark Arena stage regally, dressed in all black, and looked almost prophet-like to his thousands-strong kiwi fans. The lights shining gold and white behind him gave him a certain […]
Big screen legends are so intrinsically embedded in popular culture that even mentioning their well-known blockbusters will be enough for onlookers to know exactly who you’re talking about. Photography Courtesy of Kevin Baker for AppleTV+ via Everett Collection For example, if we say American Psycho, you immediately know we’d be referring to Christian Bale. Or […]
All the way back in 2017 at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, the packed-out Saturday Night Live audience erupted into applause. As the clapping and cheering intensified to 12 on the Richter scale, the host for the evening’s proceedings just stood casually lapping up the love from the audience. Looking inwards at the […]
Blockbuster stars have a certain quality that truly defy them. Daniel Craig, for example, is the sort of bloke that would ride a motorcycle through an explosion, break his arm in three places, stitch it back together using duct tape, flip a car, decode a nuclear warhead, punch a terrorist in the face and then […]
The time had turned 7:10pm on Sunday the 25th of June, the night of the Auckland leg of Michael Bublé’s seventh world-tour, in support of his 11th studio-album, Higher. My right-sided tremor (the result of a brain-injury I sustained when I was nine) was going like crazy. My heart was thudding out my chest. I […]
Built almost 4,500 years ago during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Great Pyramid of Giza is possibly the most well-known man-made structure in the world. Consisting of an estimated 2.3 million blocks, 5.5 million tonnes of limestone, 8,000 tonnes of granite and 500,000 tonnes of mortar, she was a pretty […]
The soft swell of a sweet, sweet bass, the building clunk of that sick drop and a mix of emotive lyrics is what many music listeners worldwide absolutely live for. It fuels the cockles, lights the fire and soothes the soul. All you need is that crashing music wave. good music that gives you that […]
Whether it be the character of Whiskey in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, or Javi Gutierrez, in the recently-released The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, or even the rugged (yet deeply likeable) Joel in video-game-turned-TV-hit, The Last of Us; Pedro Pascal is, with hope of not sounding too obsessed, a goddamn legend. No actor has tapped […]
Either acceptable and socially appropriate or completely bizarre and abstract, fashion is all up to interpretation. It’s what we all use to identify ourselves, to spark conversation. Sometimes it can work, and sometimes it just really can really not. all heard of the collaborations between fashion brands, like New Balance and Stone Island, or Louis […]
Summer was definitely an odd one this year for us New Zealanders. Reported as being the North Island’s second wettest and third hottest for the country on record, we didn’t know whether to be slapping on the sunscreen and heading down the beach in our flip-flops or batting-down-the-hatches and preparing for another cyclone. With the […]
Is It Too Soon For Airborn Balloon Surveillance? Envisioned by German general and inventor, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, in 1874 during the American Civil War, the blimp (or Zeppelin) has since become a symbol for inventive aeronautics. Though it has been deemed controversial thanks to the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, travelling in a Zeppelin has been […]
The White Lotus, the much-loved black comedy-drama, has been on everyone’s TV-watching radar in recent years. Following a group of very rich holidayers, the social satire shares the exploits of the holiday resort’s visitors and its employees. In episode three of season two, Daphne (played by Meghann Fahy) and Harper (Audrey Plaza) throw caution to […]
Songwriting is such a mysterious process. It can evoke a mixed bag of emotions for any artist. It can induce feelings of loneliness, happiness, sadness and hostility. It can evoke joy, wonder, hope and love. To look inside the void and find oneself once again is—to put oneself ‘on-the-line’—is such a unique experience for the […]
The bright lights and dazzling fanfare of cinema in Tinseltown has gone through a lot of changes since its humble beginnings in the early 1900’s. From the Silent Era—with names like Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Harold Lloyd—to the Golden Age—Marilyn Munroe, Clark Gable, and Audrey Hepburn, to name a few—where big film studios […]
To understand the general premise of transportation, it is universally acknowledged that cars drive on land, boats sail on the sea, and planes fly in the sky. In true Lazzarini-style, the Italy-based design studio are (yet again) trying to flip that notion on its head. If their latest concept design is created, it’ll also be […]
Superyachts are such beautiful structures. Eye-catching, intricately designed and manufactured, it is as though each one has its own story attached to it. Whenever you see one anchored up, you get that sense of exploration—that drifting into the unknown. The London-based team at Harrison Eidsgaard have thought up a design for the most alluring-looking yacht, […]
The much-loved and admired Orient Express, steeped in tradition and history, has become a huge cultural symbol in the past century or so. Poets, novelists, and painters have romanticised it, and all walks of life yearn to ride on it. As a train-lover myself, I find this exceptionally exciting. 140 years ago, the first of […]
The open ocean is a stunning place, but is fraught with many peculiarities. Everyone knows of the ol’-time tales of ghost ships, Kraken’s, and spooky images on the horizon that don’t seem to be quite sitting on the water, but floating atop it. Known technically as Fata Morgana, these mirages are complex forms of image […]
Artificial Intelligence is such a glorious, glorious thing. Head architect at Ant Studio in India, Manas Bhatia, has found a way to utilise artificial intelligence in his work. His series, called Manas Bhatia’s AI x Future Cities, is a selection of images completely created by the open beta website, Midjourney. He just entered prompts to […]
A good old-fashioned whodunit has always been a staple genre that has drawn-in readers (and, more recently, movie buffs) for centuries. Dating all the way back to the mid-1800’s with Edgar Allen Poe’s, The Murders of Rue Morgue, audiences have been enticed with the puzzle-solving nature of it all, where they too can play the […]
Aston Martin, by far, has become one of the world’s most sought-after car brands. Thanks to the James Bond franchise, owning one of their illustrious cars offers a sense of sophistication, elegance and class. We can all think back to a specific Bond film, like Die Another Day, and dream of being Pierce Brosnan (pre-Mamma […]
Did you know that over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is ocean, and only five percent of that has been discovered. Makes you think, doesn’t it, how many of the world’s mysteries are actually trapped on the sea bed? According to the online Hawaiian information database, Ke Alaka’i, there are more historic artifacts under […]
According to a new release from Luxury Car manufacturer Rolls-Royce, they have just brought the world its fastest all-electric aircraft. Dubbed The Spirit of Innovation, the aircraft hit 555.9km/h, over 213.04 km/h faster than the previous record. The previous record was set back in 2017 by the Siemens eAircraft powered Extra 330 LE Aerobatic aircraft. […]
Ah Ferrari. It’s almost the default brand that comes to mind when you hear the term ‘sports car’. That hasn’t happened by accident; it’s the product of 81 year track record in designing some of the most desirable luxury cars ever made. It makes sense then that they’ve drawn from that history in designing their […]
Bentley Mulliner has just made their most powerful car to date, and you’ll probably never see it in real life, let alone give it a test drive. Costing in the ballpark of US$1.95m all 18 of this limited run supercar have already been sold. Not surprising consider some of the buyers already own the previous […]
The illustrious Colorado event, Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, started all the way back in 1916 by Mr. Spencer Penrose. Throngs of car lovers have since enjoyed either spectating or participating in battling up the 20km stretch of gravel, complete with its 156 sharp turns. Only the bravest drivers compete. At this year’s Pikes Peak, […]
The Burj Khalifa, with a height of 829 metres tall, is the world’s crowning jewel of architectural brilliance. It’s soon to get a new ring to it—literally. Dreamed up by the team at Dubai-based architecture-firm, ZNera Space, the Downtown Circle project is a new, futuristic concept that will feature a 550-metre ring that will wrap […]
The illustrious Colorado event, Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, started all the way back in 1916 by Mr. Spencer Penrose. Throngs of car lovers have since enjoyed either spectating or participating in battling up the 20km stretch of gravel, complete with its 156 sharp turns. Only the bravest drivers compete. At this year’s Pikes Peak, […]
Almost 75 years since the first UFO sighting, the intrigue and mystery of possible alien life has stupefied mankind. Whether you’re a believer or not, the fact of another type of living thing out there in the great unknown has kept us all on tenter-hooks. Fodder for conspiracy theorists, I guess. What isn’t fodder, however, […]
Founded in 1937 in Berlin, Germany, Volkswagen has been long appreciated and admired as the ‘people’s car’. Stylish, slick and still up-and-running nowadays—producing 8.6 million automobiles world-wide last year—the Volkswagen is here to sTay. But how it gets from A to B might be changing Slightly. Founded in 1985, the Volkswagen Group China has made […]
Award-winning Milan-based Officina Armare have recently released an interior proposal that has has us all adding it to the top of our private jet wishlist. The proposal, suited to the Bombardier Global 6000, is utterly awesome. Priced at USD$38 million and owned by “a Brazilian client”, the Bombardier Global 6000 was created by Bombardier Aviation. […]
Climate change and global warming, two of the greatest man made threats to our earth, have become huge topics of discussion in recent years. For every government around the world, the stress is mounting. It seems like you can’t turn the TV on without being reminded that our world will crumble around us if we […]
Drifting away into song is one of life’s simple pleasures. Nothing beats just sitting back on a summer’s day with a pint of something bubbly and listening to music that allows you to soar, or climb, or transport you somewhere different. As is Kiwi custom, listening to classic homegrown musicians is a go-to for many […]
For every budding amateur actor around the globe, making it in Hollywood is the goal, the endgame, the criscendo. However, many actors spend years and years crafting their art, with little to no avail. We’ve all been conditioned to believe that the only way to truly ‘make it’ in Tinsel Town is to know the […]
Founded in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, LEO Flight is very much a step into tomorrow for aviation enthusiasts. For years, the flying car has been known to be the personal transport of the sky, with science fiction giving a helping hand to the vision. By bringing together the brains of Pete Bitar of Electric […]
Founded in 1963 by fellow Kiwi, racing car driver and inventor, Bruce McLaren, the McLaren Brand has always paved the way for worldwide high-end automobile technologies to come to the forefront. Since its humble Grand Prix beginnings from Bruce’s little Austin 7 Ulster, to the much more modern Grand Tourer released in 2019, McLaren has […]
Creativity is such a complex thing to grapple with for an artist. It can lurk, almost like a dormant hand-grenade, in the back alleyways of the brain. It is one of those traits that every artist seems to have an opinion on and clear understanding of, but can never explain. Its definition is malleable and […]
Located in the South-West region of the United Arab Emirates, the glimmering diamond of Dubai is and will always be one of the most stunning cities in the world. Its landscape seems to be forever changing, with constructions popping out of nowhere and developing almost overnight. Renowned for many different reasons, from the ultra-modern buildings […]
Nowadays, everything is near-enough solar powered. Entire houses, automobiles, airplanes, full-sized arenas and sport stadiums. The list, undoubtedly, goes on. Your head would explode if you knew what lengths mankind has gone to utilise the energy of that mighty orb in the sky that produces four billion kilograms of the stuff per second. Solar science, […]
Whether we can accept it or not, we as humans are wasting this beautiful place we call Earth. With climate change ravaging us on a daily basis, and sea-levels rising to a shocking extent, it’s up to us now to come up with alternatives. Where do we go when the Earth can’t take it anymore? […]
Amongst the hard-hitting jugganauts of the acting industry—Oscar-winners, A-listers, stars with their thin smiles and erratic (some would even say ‘rude’) gestures of dismissal to the media on red carpets—there sits a secret underground group of acting do-gooders. Of ‘nice guys’. Of actors who seem to be so excited and stoked with life. At whatever […]
Released in 1985 and directed by Robert Zemeckis, the cult-classic Back to the Future has been long seen as one of Hollywood’s greatest accomplishments. Surprisingly mainstream and absolutely ridiculous, mixing much-loved quotable lines to over-the-top pseudoscience. A contextualised narrative of a typical school kid (Michael J. Fox) and a kooky scientist (Christopher Lloyd) navigating the […]
Dreamed up by Indian studio, Bhushan Powar Design, this 110 metre long superyacht has one of the most striking silhouettes we’ve ever seen. Called Zion, its key characteristic is a large “glass eye” representing a black hole, with the clean lines of the rest of the boat forming around it like the evening horizon. It’s […]
Everyone who has ever started a new diet would know, counting your calories while you go can be a right pain in the proverbials. Yes, it’s empowering. Yes, it’s good to understand where your energy comes from. But who has enough time in their lives to do it? Luckily for you, there’s an easy way […]
Put simply, the definition of a ‘metaverse’ is a network of virtual worlds that all thrive on social connection. Virtual reality has long been steeped in the fabric of humanity’s technological and social advances. For readers who don’t know already, it would be surprising to note that virtual reality was first imagined as far back […]
Any music lover knows that feeling. That powerful feeling they get when a certain song glimmers across the Spotify suggestions, or sparks on the radio, and all they want to do is dance. That feeling when the message cuts deep—deeper than anything—and they circle around so it can play again and again and again. Music […]
Photo Shoot by Brian Bowen Smith At age 10, in a galaxy far, far away, after sustaining a severe, traumatic brain injury, I spent most of my recuperating years making friends with the characters on TV, or in movies. At risk of photosensitive seizures, I only got a precious hour of television or film-watching a […]
Italy-based design-studio, Lazzarini, has recently revealed designs for their latest extreme 169 metre superyacht, Sovrano. Being so scalding-hot off the press, not too many details have been released about this superyacht. What we do know is that it will span five decks and the yacht will be bespokely designed as either a private vessel with […]
Harking back to its 1940’s heyday, the vocal style of the classic crooner has positively punctured the hearts of almost every music listener. It’s bassy and soul-moving, dark and moody, romantic and handsome. It’s got schtick and charisma. Even nowadays in 2022, that smooth sound still remains, with millions of fans swinging to the sultry […]
I can hear it now…those titters and scoffs of fellow pedestrians as I gaze, lovingly, up at every skyscraper I see. I’m usually blocking the sidewalk, or standing in the middle of the road…hence the scoffing. I have lived in New Zealand for 26 of my 27 years on this earth, yet still (even in […]
Bentley enthusiasts, start your bespoke engines! As well as being one of the world’s boujie-est car brands, with their latest wheels being driven by the world’s elite, they’re also joining the club of Aston Martin and Porsche in creating homes for their drivers. Oh yes, imagine bringing back your brand-new, gorgeously bespoke Bentayga PHEV to […]
There’s been a heck of a lot going on in the space industry in recent years, but the most important, exciting and frankly, awe-inspiring development in recent years might be what’s going on right now with the James Webb telescope. For those of you out there who have had their focus on the goings on […]
In the words of acting icon (and now bonafide commercial astronaut), William Shatner at the beginning of every episode of Star Trek: ‘Space, the final frontier…’ The unknowingness of that infinite expanse in the sky has always baffled us, teased us and sent modern science into a tail-spin. As we learn more and more about […]
Music certainly has that magic way of pin-pointing moments in life. When Gorillaz’ ‘Feel Good Inc.’ pops up on Spotify, I get taken back to age 12—the first smooch I had with a girl. ‘Summer of 69’ by Bryan Adams is embedded in my brain as one, specific summer holiday getaway to the family caravan. […]
Actors nowadays, to mainstream audiences, can easily get mixed-up or confused. We can dispose of those thespians like they’re products. There’s more out there on the artistic ether, so why waste time fully devoting ourselves to one specific one. ‘Have you guys seen the film with such-and-such?’ we sometimes ask our movie-buff friends. ‘Ya know, […]
You know what’s better than a boat on the water? A boat in the air! Yes, I don’t get it either. Rome-based design studio, Lazzarini Design, have concocted up the concept, called Air Yacht, to give sailor the opportunity to ‘sail in the sky’. To be constructed from carbon fibre, this structure will come with […]
Designed by world-renowned Spanish design and architecture company, Iddes Yacht, this supervessel is a new addition to that beautiful green energy we all know and love. Though the idea of owning a superyacht comes with the image of high-rollers strutting along the deck, practically wearing wads of $100 bills and jaunty sailor hats like reincarnated […]
For NASA’s next jaunt up into space, they now will have a new moon buggy to play with. Aerospace creators, Northrop Grumman announced mid-November that its private team is designing a brand-spanking new Lunar Terrain Vehicle for NASA’s Artemis program. The program is set to be much like SpaceX’s pipe-dream of getting humans up into […]
Privately-funded American space juggernaut, Blue Origin, has fast become one of the leaders in the global race to space. Founded in 2000 by Amazon mad-genius-founder Jeff Bezos, the leaps and bounds they have taken to firmly establish themselves alongside the big space names has been nothing short of awe-inspiring. Recently, Bezos’ Blue Origin has added […]
To build a poem, as a work of art, takes a large amount of time and patience. To live in another life, if only for a brief moment, is a truly enlightening experience. Imagine, dear reader, the thrill of writing and creating a poem whilst also being able to walk within it. A real-life work […]
Auckland Anniversary; 29th of January, 2018. The City of Sails was, as I recall, filled to the brim with excitement. Thousands, I would say, of tiny sardine-like people stretching from the waterfront, through the viaduct and all the way to the top of Queen Street. All of them appeared to be following the current upstream […]
Ryan Reynolds is so many things, holds many a name and wears many a hat. Hollywood’s best, brightest star, for starters. He owns an acting hat, a producer hat, he’s a writer, a father, a husband, a prankster, a charmer, a smooth-talker, a businessman, entrepreneur, a dreamer. Call Ryan Reynolds a joker, a silly-billy, an […]
BMW is one of the most well-known car brands in the world. Everyone loves and can recognise one when they see one. Recently, they have released information about their latest concept car, called the BMW i Vision Circular, that will feature recycled materials. At the end of the car’s life, it will be able to […]
With Covid lockdown’s being a constant reminder for us to stay inside, keep our distance and maintain our mental health by seeing the silver-linings, any warm-blooded person would much rather spend their days following all of the rules set out by our government, but at sea. So let’s dream for a second…with the Ghost Yachts […]
Aotearoa Ultra Marathon (Jan 2022) With Covid-19 restrictions easing much quicker than imagined by most of us, the annual mighty Aotearoa Ultra Marathon is set to happen early next year in January. Organized by CJM’s Events and set in three parts, all unique in length and branching over Banks Peninsula and Christchurch, this marathon is […]
Harking all the way back to the rugged prehistoric Stone Age, as a way to prevent cavemen from catching the ol’ bojangles on bushes or pesky branches whilst off hunting wooly mammoths, the modest (and very practical) underwear has and will always be one of humankind’s earliest and greatest inventions. Like most pioneering miracles, the […]
For those who frequent a trip to Sydney from time to time, the weather (in the summer season) can get a bit steamy. A little treat away from the scorching weather will be its first major winter sports centre, aptly called Winter Sports World. The centre includes a multi-facet operation to mimic the ski field […]
International design office, Carlo Ratti Associati, and acclaimed Italian architect, Italo Rota, have revealed recently a design for the MAE Museum, a museum promoting and celebrating the wonder of carbon fibre. Yep, you certainly read that right. To be located in Piacenza, Italy, it will be built largely from new and recycled (you guessed it) […]
On the night of the 8th of March last year at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the Saturday Night Live audience erupted in applause. The host, who is also one of the most recognisable men on the planet, hadn’t hosted SNL for eight years, so his aura was almost prophet-like. Dressed laid-back and casual in buttoned black […]
According to Norse mythology, life and death in a Viking battle depended not on military prowess, but on the favour of the valkyries who decided the warriors who lived and died. Luckily we no longer need to sort out our disagreements with short swords and axes but we still have ways to vent our competitive […]
Architecture-studio, Abiboo, have recently revealed their little slice of Paradise…on Mars. Set within some grand cliff on the planet’s red surface, the city—named Nüwa—has been imagined as being completely self-sustaining and could house up to 250,000 people, being built using the materials from the planet. The potential for the planet is strong, especially within this […]
Following the titular PR woman-turned-detective-sleuth (played by Ashely Jensen) across the English countryside, Agatha Raisin is a thrilling, drama-filled and often hilarious time for viewers. Set in the large(ish) fictional village of Carsley, nestled between the folds of the Cotswold Hills, it seems to audiences that this place isn’t really the stereotypical location of a […]
American start-up car company, Aptera, is planning on launching their latest electric vehicle to the market this year, but with a twist. An ultra-efficient, three-wheeled electric vehicle powered by solar panels. Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony founded the start-up in 2006 and offered the futuristic idea to be funded. Google offered them a few million […]
Dry July Dry July has come around again, and it’s surely going to make a massive impact on struggling Kiwis. A fundraiser that challenges you to go alcohol-free to raise funds for those affected by cancer, the initiative is simple to follow. Just sign up to the challenge on the Dry July website and go […]
When you’re out for your daily jog, it’s always nice to run and listen to the latest health and fitness podcasts to get you motivated. Did you know it’s been proven by experts that listening to sounds through your headphones whilst exercising greatly reduces stress and makes muscles easier to function? Plus some of the […]
What do you get the man who has absolutely everything? Why a bespoke Rolls-Royce of course, what else? The very epitome of luxury, nothing tells the world more about your personality than a Rolls-Royce. Yet, the car maker extraordinaire has taken this personalisation a step even further with the brand new Rolls-Royce Dawn ‘The Kita’. […]
Ah, Coventry. Such a gorgeously brimming and buzzing metropolitan burrow situated a stone’s-throw from London in the UK. Soon it will thrust England into the future later this year with Uber-Air, showing investors how flying taxis can fit into urban centres. Urban-Air Port, a British-based start-up, has partnered with Hyundai Motor to start developing the […]
Beaming onto our TV screens in 1999 as a single season, Popstars quickly rose in popularity to become an integral part of New Zealand reality television history. Devised by producer Jonothan Dowling in a tiny office in Grey Lynn, Auckland, the show’s concept was quickly bought up by Screentime Australia and distributed around the world. […]
In the early evening on March the 14th this year, on an unknown rooftop overlooking the Staples Centre in downtown Los Angeles, a group of music’s brightest stars had gathered. Like a meeting of the deities, the socially-distanced and masked members looked stoic as the cameras panned over their recognisable faces. Whatever they were doing […]
