April is fast approaching. It’s time to sort out your date nights, your weekends, and your social calendar in general. By the end of the month you’re going to be twice as cultured as you are now. Or at the very least, finally know the difference between all these IPA’s the microbrewers love so much. […]
I wanted to write something about the silly season being upon us, but it made me cringe out of my own skin. I now sit here, as a disturbing skeleton in my office, to offer you a plethora of comedians descending upon New Zealand to celebrate the 2023 Best Foods Comedy Gala. I think we […]
Over the years, financial market commentators have likened rapid swings by using the analogy of a fish swimming in shoals. The startled, flurried movement of one little anchovy can send millions of anchovies in the other direction on a dime. Anchovy shoals off the coast of California can get up to 100 million fish, by […]
Bailey Bass is fresh to Hollywood but she’s already managed to hit some of the biggest franchises out there to date. On TV she’s finding success on Interview With the Vampire, and on the big screen she is now part of the third most highest grossing film of all time, Avatar: The Way of Water. […]
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 […]
Pedro Pascal has gone from transporting animatronic baby mascots for Star Wars to transporting tweens for HBO. HBO’s take on The Last of Us has been nothing short of a triumph. It has succeeded where all others have failed, successfully adapting a video game into a critically acclaimed show. That’s a tall order, but if […]
SHAZAM! Fury Of the Gods The Sequel to DC’s most fun movie to date. Our boy in a man’s body joke is still going strong in this one as Shazam (Zachary Levi) attempts to find his place in an uncontrolled super hero team. Meanwhile Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu step in as the villains of […]
This is an intervention, we need to talk about your frame rates. The film industry has been stuck on 24 frames per second since 1930. As movies have started to thrash around more, this low frame rate is starting to show its age. Action can become an indecipherable smudge over the screen. If you’ve seen […]
Kiwis need no reminder about how dangerously powerful large bodies of water can be at the moment, but it’s nice seeing someone conquering the surf in a place where the surf is supposed to be, at a beach, and not inside our homes. Riding this particular wave is Izzi Gomez at Cortes Bank, California, United […]
Find two very tall objects extremely far apart and Jaan Roose has probably slacklined between the two. This particular stunt was pulled off in Bozzhyra, Kazakhstan, just 160km from the Caspian Sea. This basin was once an ancient ocean, but now, as its name ‘Bozzhyra’ translated into English suggests, it’s just a ‘Grey Land’ now. […]
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 […]
Tennis is all about precision and timing. One split second too early or too late, and you’re out of the point. It’s a game of milliseconds, and it’s that attention to detail that makes the game so captivating and at times so frustrating. And what better symbol of precision and excellence than the iconic brand […]
Pharrell Williams is either everywhere, or nowhere at once. Remember exactly ten years ago when he seemed to be in everybody’s music videos (Daft Punk, Robin Thicke)? Then put himself in a fridge for a decade to maintain freshness? Well he’s out now and last issue we reported that he was collaborating with the MONCLER […]
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, […]
MANY of our financial commentators are predicting a tough year in 2023 which worries so many New Zealanders – and for some, it could be taking a toll on their mental health. For men in particular, the psychological impact of facing financial difficulties can hit hard. “Lots of people are feeling extra pressure at the […]
Fight Ageing Right Keep your body in good nick by putting the right things into it to keep it well tuned. NZ company SRW Laboratories are known for their state-of-the-art lineup of cellular nutrition supplements and their product, NMN, maintains this high standard of quality. NMN is a naturally occurring molecule that uses Nicotinamide adenine […]
Tony Hsieh was a fast moving entrepreneur and venture capitalist who caught the internet wave in 1996 when he was just 23. His first project was LinkExchange, if you can remember that. Before being able to Google everything, you had to rely on discoverability via everyone else through linking with each other, either by straight […]
So stop letting yourself off and take control of your opportunities. Change, Action and Momentum are the three big focus words between where you are and where you want to be but don’t even dare to believe it possible. As New Zealanders, we all need to realise that we have so much opportunity and so […]
There have been few real seismic shifts in technology over the past few years, some have looked likely contenders but have petered out, others have changed the way we do things. In my opinion, we are on the verge of a shift similar in size and impact to the iPhone or the Internet. Chatbots, such […]
For the last 18 years, CMC Markets and its GM Chris Smith have opened up global access to thousands of financial products, insights and tools for New Zealand traders. Over that time, we’ve seen market disruptions, recession, bull runs, cheap credit and expensive credit, but the markets keep on going. It seems like we are […]
Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder See a hot bird you like the look of? Wanna get up close with a camera but don’t know how to do it without scaring them away? The Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder solves all these issues by being fully rigged with cameras and microphones. It has solar charging, a […]
System Shock Remake PC, macOS, Linux, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S. Kickstarted back in 2016, this legendary title finally gets its remake. Backers who’ve already had hands on time with the various demos have been happy and impressed with the love put into this remake of the 1994 classic. Without System Shock, there […]
ChatGPT has been stunning my friends and I with its unique ability at pretending to be the most average person in existence. A perennial fence sitter that couldn’t tell a good joke to save its life. In short, the perfect person for acing rote learning at school. A recent survey by an online course provider […]
Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What would you do with that freedom? This one is all about inspiration; to celebrate a proud Scotsman who stirred his […]
The Margarita is a classic cocktail that has stood the test of time, remaining an eternal favourite at bars and parties the world over. And when it comes to ultimate in summer imbibing, this simple yet tenacious tequila-based drink served on the rocks is hard to beat – its sweet-tart layers of freshly-squeezed lime juice […]
