M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The New Watch From Grand Seiko’s Series 9 Tells The Link Between Nature & Time Watches and clocks are not the only way to tell the time; nature supplies us with many other options. We… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: The Next Stage The Marvel Cinematic Universe, based on the comic book universe of the same name by the great visionary Stan Lee… Read More Read More
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M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Set In Stone – The DNA Of An Entrepreneur The founder of Prestige Surfaces, Matt Nash, has found business success in the sealing and cleaning of stone and concrete… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Best Nintendo Switch Party Games For the Big Screen After a year of being in and out of lockdowns, I’ve been considering the sweet middleground of social gatherings, or… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 If You Want To Win, Practice Winning First Watching the America’s Cup yachts racing out on the Hauraki Gulf at the moment, you can’t help but wonder what… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 A Sailing Future Powered By Tech How do you win the America’s Cup? You innovate, innovate, innovate of course. Standing still with the same ideas and… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 From Dreams To Reality Overnight – 3D Printing With Team NZ Competing in the America’s Cup means coming up with innovative new designs that will give your boat an edge over… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Editor’s Letter – Mar/Apr 2021 You will notice as you go through this issue that we have gone heavy on the America’s Cup, and while… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Dua Lipa Levitating To Stardom In the weeks of making this issue of M2, Dua Lipa’s ‘levitating’ has played roughly 1 million times on the… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Ripple in the Water It is universally-acknowledged that when a singular pebble is dropped into water, it will have far-reaching ripple-effects. That means, in… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Top Three Autumn Reads For this issue, I read 3 great novels, by whom I would call the gentlemen of action fiction authors. The… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Star Wars Hotel In A Galaxy Far, Far Away Since the first film released in 1977, Star Wars has very rightly positioned itself at the precipice of popular-culture. Every… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Coming 2 America + Other Must-See Movies Coming Up Coming 2 America 32 years after the original comedy classic, Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall reprise their roles in Coming… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The 3 TV Show Traps We All Fall For Eventually Movies are one night stands. They can suck, but fortunately the damage is contained to a single ill-fated evening. Shows… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 How Do You Keep Up With Current Affairs? Ryan Newton Occupation: General Manager at Culture – The Social-Led Agency Age: 34 What’s your morning routine? I’m a morning… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Importance Of Te Reo Today Te Aranga O Otene Hopa Occupation: Kapa Haka Tutor/Performer, Māori Cultural Lead TupuToa, Future Director Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei Whai… Read More Read More
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M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Stacked Climb The Trbovlje Power Station in Slovenia was shuttered after 100 years of operation in 2014 and now sits dormant. Its… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Zirk van den Berg On How To Write Hits Zirk van den Berg is one of those writers that has the power of the village and the writer all… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Beat By Beat: Why The America’s Cup Matters ‘Hey, forget the Warriors! Switch channels, the America’s Cup is on!’ How often have you heard that refrain? Surprisingly often… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Race Of Innovation For Emirates Team New Zealand While the America’s Cup is a test of sailing skill, strategy and teamwork played out on the water and counted… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Brave The Elements With The Z Zegna FW 21 Collection We’re coming out of the sweltering summer months and arriving into the cooler seasons. That means it’s time to start… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Here Are The Top Picks From The Hour Glass Back 1980 Carlo Crocco threw a very shiny spanner into the works for the world of horology when he launched… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Electric Wingsuits Are Here When I was a mere child, I remember wishing for superhuman powers. Strength and agility on an exceptional level, the… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Lexus LF-Z Electrified – The Right Place At The Right Time Let’s just get this out of the way; if you’re trying to sell us on a car with a kickass… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 You Need These Deus Ex Machina Glasses Right Now Specsavers has become a central pillar in the optometry circuit in this country and over the ditch. Every design is… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 New Rolls-Royce Ghost: A Supernatural Force Over the years, researchers have pondered the impact of someone’s name over their actions and life choices. Along the way,… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Tane Tomoana: Making The Cut One of New Zealand’s top hair stylists, Tane Tomoana tends to the hair of the Prime Minister for the occasional… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The New Lexus IS – A Thousand Years In the Making Combining a focus on luxury, performance and breakthrough engineering with the build quality and reliability that comes from connection to… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 How Movember Is Investing In Mental Health Initiatives When the effects CoVid-19 began to take effect at the start of 2020, I, like so many people and organisations… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Ferrari 812 GTS: A Rebirth 50 Years In The Making Ah Ferrari. It’s almost the default brand that comes to mind when you hear the term ‘sports car’. That hasn’t… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 How to Upgrade Your Running Performance “Hey, you can’t park here!”; “Oi, you need to wear a mask to get in this supermarket!”; ‘What are you… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Under Armour Performance Academy: Perform At Your Peak Under Armour has been in the business of making athletes better for 25 years now, and they’re just getting started.… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Up Your Collagen Intake With This New Artesian Water A World First To Up Your Collagen Intake! The newest offering in water – Collagen Refresh. A pure collagen ready-to-drink… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Meet Andy Jassy: The New Face Of Amazon In a surprise announcement earlier this year, Jeff Bezos is stepping down from his chief executive position to make way… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Best Things Jack Ma Said Jack Ma famously said the wrong things recently, let’s celebrate some of the better things. “It doesn’t matter if I… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Never Bet Against James Cameron It’s common knowledge that you never bet against Film maker and rolex ambassador James Cameron. He’s a wizard of spinning… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Skin In The Game: Boutique Fund Management Since starting out with a few friends and family clients in 2007, boutique fund management company Pie Funds now works… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Power Of Focus: What Uncertain Times Demand You’ve no doubt been hearing a ton of celebratory remarks around how glad people are that they can leave 2020… Read More Read More
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M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Approach Your Life Like An Artist Every January I do a stone carving symposium and I am always amazed by the similarities between creating a sculpture… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Yalumba 2016 The Signature Has Arrived Good news! The 47th Yalumba Signatory has finally been announced as part of the release of Yalumba’s 2016 The Signature… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Hands On With The Oculus Quest 2 Over the holidays, I was lucky enough to get my hands on the Oculus Quest 2, which is the perfect… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 CES 2021: The Top Ten Tech Highlights As COVID-19 and the state of the world made it difficult to have the expo at the Las Vegas Convention… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 2021 Game Releases: What You Can Look Forward To After Cyberpunk’s trashfire of a release, I feel like I need to do a PSA about never pre-ordering anything. Just… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 How To Start A Conspiracy Theory Cult M2 is primarily about success. Nothing says success more than consumers giving you most of their income for a product… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Lexus Design Awards: Making A Better Tomorrow The Global Lexus Design Awards have showcased creativity, innovation and mad design skills since its starting in 2013. In this… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Hillary Trail: Your Essential Guide The Hillary Trail has become a mainstay of North Island tramping, and especially an alluring option for Aucklanders looking for… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Montblanc Fragrance You Can’t Live Without In 2021 The Montblanc fragrance range, Legend, has become a timeless classic fragrance for men since it was first launched in 2011.… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 A Legend In The Making: Montblanc’s New Eau de Parfum Don’t you just love it when you get something completely right? When you put together a pitch document and everyone… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Seiko Celebrates 140 Years With These Limited Edition Watches Can you believe it? Seiko are 140 years old! Not many companies survive that length of time so Seiko naturally… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Launch of the Rolls-Royce Ghost On Wednesday 24 February 2021, 60 guests were invited to celebrate the launch of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost at the… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Sailing and Mount Gay – An Old Rum Tale Say the syllable ‘rum’ and a Pavlovian urge to celebrate International Talk Like A Pirate Day early comes into play.… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 This Epson Projector Takes Home Entertainment Into The Future We’ve got this 21st century all wrong! You catch a bus, go to a café or drop by someone’s lounge… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Painter & The Thief Is A Documentary Too Good To Be Real Starting with security camera footage of two men breaking into a gallery hosting Oslo-based artist Barbora Kysilkova’s work The Painter… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 This Projector Will Change How You Watch The Next Game A video projector is truly one of life’s great social pleasures. I used to have one back in my flatting… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Peter Jackson Has Completely Remastered All Of The Lord Of The Rings My nephew was born the same day the Two Towers came out in theatres. It was a great day. I… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Concept Cars – A Fearful Asymmetry On the surface; we all love symmetry – pretty faces, sunflowers, social justice and bell distribution graphs. And anything that… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 This Flight Will Get You To The Edge Of Space Stop the world I want to get off! I’ve had enough of COVID, Trump, anti-landlord legislation, Trump, ultra woke sensibilities… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Trans-Tasman Bubble Calls for Tazzy Trip Fear not, New Zealand, it appears the long, painful wait for the quarantine trans-Tasman bubble might finally be over soon.… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Top 8 Lessons From The March/April M2 Issue M2’s March/April issue is out now and covers the latest in tech, business, cars, entertainment, fashion and more. Here are… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Here Are All The Hair Products You Need To Keep Your Hair And Beard Under Control After jumping into a new year, we decided to treat a couple of our guys to the full BarberShopCo experience.… Read More Read More
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M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Where To Go To Pick Up The Most Classic Hairstyles After the first lockdowns we sent our unkempt gentlemen for a spruce up at BarberShopCo with some classic hairstyles. It… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 This Swept Back Look Is In, And You Need To Get On It New year, new you. Don’t bother with resolutions, just get a new haircut. It’ll make you feel better than breaking… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 How To Pick A Hairstyle That Will Never Go Out Of Fashion We’re now well into the Summer months so M2 took some of the crew down to BarberShopCo with a photographer… Read More Read More
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M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Latest iMac Gets A Splash Of Colour As winter slowly creeps up on us and the cold, grey afternoons begin to become the norm, I think we… Read More Read More
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M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Company Going Nuclear On Climate Change With the endless glut news segments, press conferences and brutal social media comment wars related to the current state of… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Highlights Of The Lexus Urban Polo It’s the sport that epitomises high culture, grace and class. No, I’m not talking about pub darts, I am of… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Five Kiwi Innovators To Watch In 2021 Our new issue goes beyond just cool gadgets and fast cars and highlights a diverse group of Kiwi innovators from… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 These Jockey Underwear Text You Once a Month To Save Your Life Before I go any further, no, these Jockey undies aren’t a new level of the surveillance state monitoring your every… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Taking A Leap To Change the Conversation About Mental Health On a sunny Saturday, on the 13th of February in Motueka, Steve Gregor and Brent Findlay successfully completed 120… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 The Hugo Boss Range That Will Make You Look Good In And Out Of The Ring Way back in 1985, Rocky 4 brought Hugo Boss to the big screen. Not once, but thrice in one of… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Richie McCaw – Sportsman of the Decade Since its starting in 1960, the Halberg Awards have been a shining beacon for New Zealand’s sporting elite. Named after… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 New Zealand In Danger Of Losing Its Gaming Sector to Australia by 2022 New Zealand’s gaming sector has become our fastest growing creative industry and digital exporter in recent years. Our interactive media… Read More Read More
M2 Mar/Apr 2021 Atari Is Starting A Casino Where You Win Cryptocurrency I’m not a massive fan of gambling so don’t consider any of this a recommendation, but the venerable game publisher… Read More Read More