“The name Kryptos is derived from Ancient Greek, referring to something unseen, hidden and coded, mythical even. Ciphers can be traced through millennia, capturing the imagination of some of the world’s most brilliant minds,” said the car’s designer, Karin Lehmann. Cryptography, or the art of solving or writing codes, has been intertwined in our humanity […]
Being a magazine with a broad content base means that we get to profile people from a wide range of industries and perspectives. In this issue for example, we profile a Kiwi rugby star, a Kiwi actor, a Kiwi tech entrepreneur and a US voice artist who plays Thor in the latest Marvel Avengers game. […]
Larsen Thompson attends Sensorama Vivier – the Roger Vivier press day at Fondation Cino et Simone del Duca during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France. She’s the face of the new guard, and everyone’s sitting up and taking notice. Larsen Thompson is a dancer, model and actress. She’s rubbing shoulders with the likes of Georgia […]
What are the top three things on your bucket list? Mountain bike the Old Ghost Road, in the South Island. Explore South America. Heli-Skiing in Alaska. What advice would you give your 20 year-old self? I’m not sure I’d do much differently – “make the most of that stage of your life, it’s one of […]
What advice would you give your 20 year-old self? Work hard, play hard, travel – and make sure there’s time for family and friends amongst all that! I was raised with a belief that success, or rather satisfaction, comes not just from hard work but from embracing risks. Enjoy the process … life isn’t a […]
What advice would you give your 20-year-old self? Don’t take life too seriously, learn, learn, learn and perhaps look for some guidance around time management for exam or assignment time (you seem to only nail this in your last year of studying)! How do you stay motivated? By constantly searching for new things to learn […]
Locomotion is the most common form of movement in nature. NASA’s latest robot concept will use exactly that to hop around distant planets. Designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the little robot is going to be designed to easily navigate ove icy terrains, such as Jupiter’s moon, Enceladus or Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. […]
Any building with a tick of approval on the sustainability chart is great in our book. So when it comes to a building in Antarctica, we are impressed beyond belief. Scott Base is New Zealand’s own slice of the great ice capital. A field research facility located on Pram Point near Mount Erebus that looks […]
In April 2001, American engineer and entrepreneur Dennis Tito, along with the Russian Federal Space Station, became the first man who funded his own ride to space. It’s insane to think that the number has risen greatly to almost three hundred tourists having taken a spin around the globe. London-based PriestmanGoode have been busily paving […]
Wonder Woman 1984 Helmed once again by director Patty Jenkins guiding hands, Diana has now spent enough time in our world to become the street wise hero we now know her as. The movie kicks off back on her island home, where we see her prepare for becoming the hero she will one day become […]
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI) and the Westerlund 2 Science Team. A cluster of thousands of stars, measuring between six and 13 light-years across, displays as a work of art across the night sky showing in the centre of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster, […]
Photo credit: Frode Sandbech/Red Bull Content Pool It’s hard to know what grabs your attention most strongly in this photo. The beautiful township of Svolvær in Lofoten, Norway – known for its striking scenery and fishing – or the two volleyball players, precariously passing a ball atop the 150m high Svolværgeita towers. The two players, […]
He might have the voice of a Norse God, but Travis Willingham is such a versatile actor that over the last two decades he has played many of the characters that have shaped current popular culture. His work features in over 150 different video games and animation titles and ranges from Superman in Lego Batman, […]
‘Quantitative Easing’; it’s the phrase on every banker’s lips and that gets me worried because we don’t often see eye-to-eye on anything – well, okay, so let’s make that never. But finding out about this apparently momentous financial event that can cure blindness and make the crippled walk again is not easy. Looking online for […]
From his early childhood rugby aspirations in the backyard with his brothers, Beauden Barrett has made a beeline for success. Since his provincial debut for Taranaki in 2010 at 19 and his All Blacks Test debut 2 years later, Beauden has cemented himself as one of our rugby greats. His lightning speed, precise kick and […]
Regimes come, regimes go, none more publicly than the Soviet Union did when it was abolished in 1991. The impact it left on the world still echoes today, not only in geopolitics but also in the physical world of overgrown hangers long since abandoned by the military and algae clogged pools from old public facilities. […]
Technology comes, goes and is quickly forgotten. Yet quality craftsmanship and style are eternal. Nothing illustrates this truism better than the field of luxury watches where meticulous attention to detail in manufacture, backed by uninhibited imagination in design, have turned each model into a unique wearable work of art. In a delicious irony, these elite […]
If you wanted to look as dapper as Ralph Fiennes in the upcoming film, The King’s Man, then the luxe MR. PORTER online fashion shop literally has you covered. Teaming up with director Matthew Vaughn they have developed a collection inspired by the film, making it easy to dress like a World War One era […]
For all you big kids out there who love to dissect the instructions in your kids Lego sets, Ducati’s newest creation might get you wetting yourself in excitement. Designed by Italian designer Riccardo Zangelini, the Ducati Panigale Sports Bike, made entirely from 15,000 Lego blocks, features everything that goes into a replica of the real […]
New York City. the Big Apple. the place where dreams are made of. Forever, it seems, that big city has a changing landscape. The Chrysler and the Empire State Building are just two of the million or so buildings that create this city’s character. It’s not exactly somewhere you’d expect to see such a green […]
Announced all the way back in 2018, the next generation of sheer power is here in Tesla’s latest Roadster model. If anyone were to suggest attaching rocket thrusters to the back of a car, you’d imagine it to come out of an action movie. Still only a concept, Musk has teased that the thrusters on […]
This article has been written by Dr. Don McCreary, owner of Donald McCreary Scientific Consulting and Movember affiliated researcher. Dr. McCreary’s research focuses in the areas of men’s health, workplace stress and health, and resilience both in and out of the workplace. Contributions also from Clinical Psychologist, regular media contributor for TVNZ and key note speaker […]
Talented actor, writer and producer Cameron Jones might make his craft look effortless but behind his credits which include Shortland Street, The Hobbit and an NBC/Warner Bros TV film/pilot ‘Christmas of Many Colors’, a story about Dolly Partons’ childhood, is an unfathomable amount of hard work and resilience. Even Cameron’s one man theatre show High […]
It’s affected every part of our lives and made the anthropocene grind to a halt until we can get it under control. But what does Covid even look like? Well The UNC School of Medicine laboratory of Camille Ehre, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, has taken some pretty good class photos of the little bastards. […]
“If you want to be successful, learn from other people’s mistakes, not their successes. No matter how smart you are, you will encounter these mistakes, and you’ll know how to deal with them.” – Jack Ma, Co-Founder of Alibaba Group “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein, physicist […]
Our ability to change is critical to being able to adapt to the variety of new circumstances we continually face. Change is in fact the foundation of evolution and it is also integral to us being able to leverage our creativity and desire to make improvements. You probably started off with a plan for your […]
The last 10 years have gone by in a flash, so I thought it was a good time to stop and reflect on some of my key learnings over that period. I remember starting Pure SEO in my living room using $200 to build a webpage (I cobbled together the rest – it looked like […]
Even during the best of times, looking out the window can be hard to resist at work. But when the world comes to a near-complete standstill at the hands of a pandemic, Resisting that urge becomes impossible. The oft-quoted “We are witnessing history” has never felt more relevant than now. For many of us – […]
Sound at Lightspeed Last issue we got to play with the Logitech G502 and it’s peerless LIGHTSPEED 2.4ghz connection which helps it rival its wired peers for latency. Now Logitech has thrown that exact same connection into their new wireless version of the Pro X headset, the G PRO X LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Headset. It’s […]
The internet is the aggregate of human wisdom. it’s pushing us to new heights of intelligence and definitely not into closed facebook group echo chambers. We have canvassed the wisdom of the digital Pangaea to learn what some of the most amazing places in the world are like. Our search lead us inevitably to Google […]
Being eight-years old is a wonderful time in your life as you are just starting to realise the difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Then, once you find the latter – you put a picture of it up on your wall to inspire you, and to figure out why it is so good. But, […]
It’s time for a short holiday getaway but this time, thanks to COVID, I’m not headed to the airport – but to the Ferry Building at Britomart for a forty minute trip over to Waiheke. Though it is not a foreign destination – Waiheke IS overseas! So it will do nicely. The third most populated […]
Azerbaijan is not a country I have thought of often I must admit. A mysterious nation lurking in the Transcaucasia and boasting cities with alien planet-sounding names like; Zaqatala, Sumqayit and Xanyurdu, Azerbaijan was cloaked in the obscurity of the Soviet Union for most of the 20th century. Then, in the summer of ‘92 it […]
Building can be fun – or it can be stressful. Often the difference comes down to good planning. That includes getting money matters shipshape. While the subject of how to finance a build can be dry (and, in our opinion, nowhere near as exciting as discussing design features or actually seeing your home rise from […]
I got tricked. A woman with whom I did a fitness bootcamp once invited me to come along to do some ‘rugby stretches’ at her gym. She neglected to use the noun used by the gym itself to describe the class, in fact typed in bold CAPITALS at the top of the brochure, because she […]
Q: How many Surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: No tomatoes. A 20th century joke to explain the 20th century phenomenon of Surrealism – which was the more public-friendly follow-up to Dada, in a similar way to how New Romantics followed on from Punk Rock. As the name suggests, Surrealism was […]
Hi, my name is Cy Sinderson and I am an aerophile. It is a serious affliction as people with my condition cannot handle the rigours of modern life without receiving regular succour in the form of time spent experiencing the delicious bureaucracy of travel at airports. My issues started off as Tripophobia where I feared […]
“I really struggled in school. I was that kid in primary school, you know the one. The kid that had such a difficult time keeping my mouth shut, so much so that I grew up on a first name basis with Margaret the receptionist at the principal’s office. The class clown. No one ever really […]
As an SME operating in the design and construction industry, Box™ needs to be nimble. They believe in testing the waters of interesting design-and-build ideas but are quick to pivot if the uptake or financials don’t stack up. So what has the Covid crisis taught them? Well, there’s the human side. Several Box™ clients contacted […]
Pinot Noir is considered by many to be the most legendary of red grapes. It is the holy grail of winemaking, the thin-skinned grape notoriously sensitive, fragile and fickle to grow and equally difficult to fashion into a truly great wine. But combine equal measures of passion, patience, perseverance and most likely anguish, heartbreak and […]
So Auckland has a water shortage. Again. Hard to believe considering we have an average rainfall of 1,284mm per year, 14 water reservoirs capable of holding over 100 gigalitres (or 100 billion litres of water) plus a pipe spewing the stuff directly from the Waikato River. Sure, there may have been a touch less rain […]
When we go to get our beards trimmed at a mall like Commercial Bay in downtown Auckland, it’s very easy for us to pick up a personalised aftershave, hookah and/or vape while we’re there. And not even spare a single moment to marvel at how the impressive array of herbs, spices and oils we can […]
Berlin is a city that simply doesn’t get enough proper attention from Kiwis on their OEs, as it is usually just tacked on near the end of the average tiki-tour of European destinations. Which is a waste really because, once you’ve done London, Edinburgh, Rome, Gallipoli, Paris, Amsterdam, Prague, Barcelona and all the other usual […]
Visiting Hiroshima is all about experiencing emotion – and not the contrived stuff places like Disneyland serve up, I’m talking the real deal. I’ve been to Hiroshima twice and had two completely different reactions to it. The first time, I went by myself; it was a bleak, steel grey day and I was overwhelmed with […]
Contrary to what pompous wine snobs might imply – making your own homemade wine is actually really easy. Of course, making a good or great fruit wine is a whole other story, but you’ve got to start somewhere eh? I got into it largely because I have 37 feijoa trees on my section (no, sadly […]
Harnessing some of Hawke’s Bay’s best grapes over the last quarter century, Mills Reef has established itself as one of New Zealand’s finest wine brands and, for almost as long, Head Winemaker Paul Dawick has been a part of the Mills Reef family. Raised in Hawke’s Bay since the age of 4, Paul has been […]
Whilst Zoom has done a great job of subbing in for business meetings with overseas clients and partners, unfortunately it cannot replace our lost recreational travel in this hideous COVID-19-handicapped world. Certainly, all my plans for holidaying abroad have been put on hold for the immediate future. To appease my raging travel urges, in the […]
M2 recently took its shaggiest guys for a spruce up at BarberShopCo. The end results were sharp and on point. So we quizzed the barbers behind the looks to get the inside line on how to pick a good look, and the products we need to maintain them. This look was provided to us by […]
Last week M2 took the lads down to BarberShopCo. for a sheering. A month of lockdown without seeing anyone had left everyone in dire need of some grooming. Fortunately we were in capable hands and the results really do speak for themselves. We caught a moment with our barbers to get the inside scoop on […]
In a lot of ways, winemaking is the power to capture a moment in time and to package it up alongside a whole lot of work, passion, heritage, knowledge and connection to place. The bottle is then ready to be unleashed and enjoyed with friends at a time which will have with it its own […]
When you look up into the night sky and see the 100 thousand million stars above us, there is little doubt that civilizations who are more advanced than our own species exist somewhere out there, but recent discoveries about the closest exoplanet to the solar system, Proxima B, has given scientists a new wealth of […]
Space and speed are vital components to ride sharing companies. The ubiquitous nature of ride sharing has been a common trend over the years. Companies like Uber or Lyft have given drivers (and passengers, for that matter) a different outlook on the taxi experience. If we are to look to the future though, we need […]
Cory Richards is one of the world’s most recognised adventure and mountaineering photographers, and the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012. His mission: to capture not only the soul of adventure and exploration, but also the beauty inherent in our modern society. His photography has taken him across the world – from the […]
The Australian branch of the multinational corporation, Boeing, in partnership with the Royal Australian Airforce, have recently released a prototype for an unmanned system that will be able to fly alongside existing manned aircrafts. Named the Loyal Wingman, the plan is that aircraft will be used in top-secret missions of espionage and intrigue. Yes, you […]
Professional Black Sticks hockey star and co-founder of boutique boxing gym Studio Box, Dwayne Rowsell knows a thing or two about focus, hard work and pushing through the pain, but the last couple of months haven’t been in any rulebook. We talk to Dwayne about business in the age of Covid, performance off and on […]
Nimble speedboats VS slow moving ships. It’s a great metaphor for energetic startups going head-to-head with large established businesses. Here at Cove, we like to think of ourselves as the speedboat taking on the two Australian supertankers who dominate the local insurance market. Being the challenger brand, or the “small speedboat”, we are in for […]
Our ability to change is critical to being able to adapt to the variety of new circumstances we continually face. Change is in fact the foundation of evolution and it is also integral to us being able to leverage our creativity and desire to make improvements. Whilst the concept of “change” is ever present, it […]
The most successful businesses to emerge from a recession are usually the ones that continue or accelerate their marketing when times are tough. In this month’s column I reached out to 4 experienced digital marketers (and myself) to find out what they are currently recommending to their clients. Sara Aljurani One of the most important […]
The enjoyment of wine is a lifelong journey. As a teenager you start off by sucking down a bladder of Chateau Cardboard from the supermarket bargain bins to get you into party mode. In your early twenties you start taking wine bottles to dinner parties, usually decided by price but sometimes by the number of […]
Now here is a true mix of a cocktail – blending the old with the new. An Old Fashioned, as befitting the name, is a cocktail that even pre-dates the concept of a “cocktail” with mixtures of spirits, sugar and bitters having been around since at least the early 19th century. Manuka honey of course, […]
