Years ago I watched an interview with Stephen King where he lost his rag about being asked what pen he uses to write with. His frustration at the question came from the fact that he gets asked it so often and the implication from those (often budding writers) who ask it is that if only […]
LOS ANGLES, CA – NOVEMBER 14: Janelle Monáe attends Netflix US Premiere of “Glass Onion:” A Knives Out Mystery” at the Academy Museum on November 14, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Emilio Madrid/Netflix © 2022.
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 […]
Engage with politics for any amount of time and chances are you’re going to be inextricably drawn away from local politics toward the giant electromagnets of American elections. The American obsession is understandable of course; the trends of everything American politics has to offer leaks into every other Western democracy in one form or another. […]
Rust Belt By Jamie Trower When I heard that M2 writer, Jamie Trower, was releasing his latest book in 2023 under his own BIRDBOY PRESS, excitement ensued. Not meaning to sound too bias, Rust Belt is great. It’s a book that keeps you coming back, wanting more. I’m not a poetry reader, by any stretch, […]
An important part of the yachting calendar each year is the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, which is commencing its 77th edition on the 26th December 2022. Starting out from Sydney Harbour, the fleet then goes on the move with yachts ranging from 30 feet (9.14 metres) to 100 feet (30.48 metres) and crews […]
Brazilian skate superstar Leticia Bufoni pulled off a daring grind out the back of a C-130 Hercules at 9,000 feet. This particular C-130 was used in the Fast & Furious movies, and to fully capture this stunt required, aerial film cameramen who worked on Mission: Impossible – Fallout were employed to properly capture the stunt. […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania In Cinemas 16 February When Ant-Man first released it felt like one of the first B-Grade heroes earning their wings. Now three films later, Ant-Man is going from strength to strength. This latest movie officially kicks off phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe bringing back Peyton Reed to direct […]
Creating a work of art, for anyone, is a big deal. It takes time (lots of it), passion, drive, and commitment. For any artist, the language is their driving force. Many paths and tracks are taken with their languages, sometimes even interwoven. In recent years, Many artists are championing our native language of Te Reo […]
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 […]
Let’s face it; Tokyo is a massive city. With 38 odd million people in its catchment area, it is easily the biggest city in the world and you really feel it when you hit Shinjuku railway station at rush hour! It’s a moving wall-to-wall carpet of people. This can be pretty intimidating when you come […]
Pharrell Williams teamed up with Moncler for their 70th anniversary celebrations as one of seven designers reinterpreting their iconic Maya jacket. He did this by using molded polymeric material, dotted with embossed logo branding. “How do you define the last 70 years? Getting to design the iconic Maya jacket with my own twist was a […]
Monti Castello – Italy A new year demands a fresh injection of style. Monti Castello delivers effortless elegance in quintessential Italian fashion. One of their masterfully woven silk ties will elevate any outfit, pairing just as comfortably with a crisply cut suit as it will with the casual texture of denim. For an extra touch […]
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 […]
Three Stoic tools you can use right now to boost your resilience and mental wellbeing. Written by Movember Mental Health Advisor, Grant Schofield. Grant is Director of The Centre for Human Potential at AUT and former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Education in New Zealand. Grant is also a member of Prekure which […]
In Olympic sports, occasionally an athlete like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps or Jesse Owens turns up who so dominates their discipline that not only is their gold medal assured – it also somehow feels inadequate. Mere mortals were also able to win one of these, but they didn’t inspire quite the same feelings of shock […]
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from” – Seth Godin (Author, Entrepreneur & Teacher) “Fail quickly and cheaply.” – Rod Drury (Founder, Xero) “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you […]
The core values driving Pure SEO are education and uplifting the digital marketing industry. We have created courses, lectured at New Zealand’s top universities, and trained marketing managers for the New Zealand Marketing Association. A couple of years ago, I went one step further; Penguin Random House commissioned me to write a book on SEO […]
The more dishes on a menu means the more ingredients the cooks will need to manage, the more combinations they will have to deal with and the more time the customer will take to order, etc, etc. Then there are customisations of the dish, side orders and all the variations of the order. For example: […]
GoPro’s New HERO11 Black Mini GoPro has always had a reputation for being small and hardy. Now they’ve gotten even smaller with the Hero11 Black Mini. It’s slimmed down and simplified with a single button control. Getting straight into the specs, we’re looking at Cinematic 5.3K60 (that’s right, 5.3k resolution), 4K120 + 2.7K240 video with […]
A few issues back we gave Astro’s cheaper pair of wired Astro A10 Gen 2’s a whirl. It only seems fair to go up the ladder to their more premium set of over ear headphones. One small step for ears, one massive step in build, design and quality. Everything about the The Logitech G ASTRO […]
Hogwarts Legacy Releasing on everything including the Switch on February 10th. Don’t ask me how or what bargains they had to make to make that happen. Hogwarts Legacy is the open world Harry Potter game fans have been having wet dreams about their entire lives. Start by getting sorted into your house and then Bum […]
There was a time when running away with a lot of other people’s money took a little decorum. You needed to put on a suit in the morning, go down to wall street and put in the hard yards to swindle an old lady out of her retirement money. Look at Bernie Madoff, a true […]
A few defining factors separate staying at a home from a premium hotel like the Cordis Auckland. At Cordis, if you go downstairs you have a range of the world’s finest hospitality options. At my place, if you go downstairs you end up in a storage basement containing a lawnmower, some boxes of costumes from […]
While Love & Co have created a legacy of transforming many Auckland office buildings into sophisticated apartments, their most iconic to date has been their revitalising of the old Auckland council building into CAB – a centre point of upmarket living and entertainment. And while the incredible transformation of the entire building has created an […]
In order to create a fragrance bold enough to live up to its colour, Montblanc called in two of the best perfumers in the business in Anne Flipo and Nicolas Beaulieu – and Legend Red is their crowning glory. Bearing a classic Montblanc hallmark, the original design of the bottle has become as legendary as […]
The gentle flutter of a butterfly’s wing can change the course of history forever. At least that’s the logic behind The Butterfly Effect – a pillar of Chaos Theory – where massive outcomes can be determined by the smallest details along the way, i.e.: how the tiny wind created by a butterfly’s wings can have […]
Emma Mackey is a name you should know now, her star is rising and she isn’t going anywhere. Her very first professional role was in the Netflix Comedy-drama series Sex Education as Maeve Wiley. She played the bad girl role with such aplomb that it earned her a BAFTA TV Award nomination in 2021 for […]
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 […]
