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Breakery: High Desert International FF 2016
No full textOn his release from the Treemore Correctional Facility for Men, career burglar Karl Plunkett Jr. is determined to make amends for his earlier life of crime. Enlisting the help of younger brother Brian, Karl embarks on a quest for redemption – through the unconventional method of breaking into his former victim’s homes and replacing earlier stolen household items with goods of equal value
Breakery: Texas Independent Film Festival
No full textOn his release from the Treemore Correctional Facility for Men, career burglar Karl Plunkett Jr. is determined to make amends for his earlier life of crime. Enlisting the help of younger brother Brian, Karl embarks on a quest for redemption – through the unconventional method of breaking into his former victim’s homes and replacing earlier stolen household items with goods of equal value
Integrating indigenous wetland flora into the urban ecosystem
Get PDFRe-introduction of original plants into modified ecosystems requires some testing of the plant range originally present. This abstract and presentation looks at the theory behind why this should be pursued. Reintroduction of lost ecosystem in the urban environment creates a vehicle for local residents to become aware of the place/original ecosystem they live in. It connects the city landscape with important highly prized ecosystem remnants in the outlying area beyond the city boundaries.
The influence of Reflexivity on Interview data
Get PDFThis article presents data from a research project which employed semi-structured interviews to ascertain the origins of NNEST beliefs about using the first language or the target language in the classroom. Rather than focus on the outcomes of this research, the presentation demonstrates how the use of reflexivity in the research process allowed for the interview data to be analysed and presented in accordance with the social constructivist approach taken in the research project
Inverted Cube 1
Get PDFThis work is a projection based installation focussing on the manipulation of light and space. The work was exhibited at a BYOB Event in Hamilton in September 2016. The idea behind the work was to subtly manipulate light to create illusions which cause the viewer to question space and reality
The paths of New Zealand popular music through Nature's Best
Get PDFThe Nature’s Best compilation albums (2002, 2003) comprise a canon of New Zealand popular music. Voted the ‘best songs of all-time’ by a mix of musicians, critics and industry figures in 2001, these songs present a particular snapshot of the New Zealand recording industry from around 1970-2000. This paper examines these albums with respect to the musical-historical stories that they tell about New Zealand popular music. My analysis focuses on matters of style—as defined by instrumentation/texture, production, harmonic language, form, and singing techniques—and the large-scale trends that can be observed in this area.
Several trends emerge from the analysis. The first is the absence of direct blues and gospel influences on the 1970s generation of songwriters, who, instead, favoured folk, new wave and ‘soft’ rock stylistic models. The second is the tendency for 1990s songwriters to work within a pop song framework (standard structures, ‘clean’ production), but to adopt the sounds of a variety of international styles (trip-hop, hip-hop, R ‘n’ B, alternative rock). These combine to produce an overall historical reading of Nature’s Best: by 2000, one can identify two contrary narratives within New Zealand popular music history—one committed to the ‘austere’ and traditional pop-rock world (see Bannister 2006), and one showcasing a growing musical diversity. Nature’s Best thus celebrates what New Zealand popular music has been, as well as its progression. Contemporary examples from More Nature (2006) and beyond suggest that these narratives are ongoing in local musical discourse
CEID research forum: Hitoshi Mitzuno
No full textSince the first report on heterojunction-type organic solar cells using a phthalocyanine by Tang in 1986, the phthalocyanines have been widely used for the organic solar cells owing to their long exciton diffusion length, large absorption coefficients, high charge generation efficiency and high thermal stability at room temperature. In general, the phthalocyanine-based organic solar cells can be fabricated by vacuum deposition techniques due to their poor solubility to organic solvents.
In this study, characterization of zinc phthalocyanine-based coating-type solar cells fabricated by using various kinds of organic solvents is performed. High photoelectric conversion efficiency of 6.39×10^-4 is obtained for the solar cell prepared by a mixture of chloroform (CF) and chlorobenzene (CB) (CF:CB=3:1). The difference of the conversion efficiencies between the fabricated solar cells is discussed in terms of molecular aggregation and crystallinity of the films
The Critical Kitchen:Public Kitchen Discourses and Private New Zealand Families.
No full textMothers occupy a gendered world of food in which they are now (often solely and privately) responsible in terms of its sourcing, preparation and disposal in private(ized) homes. This individualized setting for family life appears in “the language and logic of impersonal, competitive, contractual, commoditized, efficient, profit-maximising, self-interested relations” (Kinser qtd. Hays 316-317). The dynamics Amber Kinser describes are those we as authors associate with the increasingly dominant influence of neoliberal ideas. Harvey expresses the practical manifestation of these ideas in the proposition “that human wellbeing can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade” (3). The New Zealand Experiment, as outlined by economist Jane Kelsey, turned a previously social democratic nation into a world model for neoliberalism. The economic- and social-policy changes initiated in 1984 by a Labour government included a structural adjustment agenda now usually associated with programs imposed by agencies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on nations seeking financial assistance. The continuation of the neoliberal agenda after the 1980s by successive governments of differing political orientations since the sudden wholesale and radical adoption of neoliberal ideas has resulted in a unique neoliberal environment that has been in existence for nearly three decades. Our paper reflects on the New Zealand kitchen as an interesting case to highlight the extent to which neoliberal ideas now pervade social spaces
A gathering of stars, a gathering of stories; He huinga whetū, he huinga kōrero
No full textA book celebrating the achievements of Wintec Māori alumni in a variety of fields from journalism to sport, nursing to fashion. The book, launched as part of Wintec's Matariki celebration, profiles 12 achievers in words and images, with each story being told both in English and in Māori. Stories, photographs and book design were by Wintec Media Arts students under the curation/advisement of tutors.
My contribution was in the editing and supervision of students in the photographic process of the book.
The publication was then submitted to the NZ Best Awards and won bronze in the Nga Aho category