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When Taupo erupted nearly 2000 years ago in the biggest volcanic eruption
in history people in Rome and China witnessed deep red sunsets and
darkened skies. Two millenniums later, NZEDGE HOT focuses on issues on the
edge and profiles Kiwis continuing to generate heat around the world, in the arts, sciences,
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Top 10 Strategies for
New Zealand We are commencing a series of “Top 10s” from New Zealanders who will offer their ideas, forecasts, strategies and projections for New Zealand 2007-2010 and beyond. Initiating the series is John Williams, former owner of the Marton company PEC (New Zealand) Ltd, which was internationally respected as the world's first organization to design and market microprocessor-based petrol pumps and service station POS terminals. John is a passionate advocate for an inclusive export-based vision for New Zealand. READ MORE... |
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Back to the Future The genesis of the "New Zealand as Edge" metaphor came from a conversation started at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in California in 1995 with Kevin Kelly, then founding editor of Wired magazine, about biological constructs aka change in the species always starts at the margins, the fringes, the edges. Brian Sweeney reports on TED 2007 in Monterey, California. READ MORE... |
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Nga Kupu Aroha - Words of Love This is a love story from Aotearoa, the world's geographical edge; and from our country's social edge - from within the two major Maori street gangs, the Black Power and the Mongrel Mob. The context of the narrative is a quest to reduce the community demand for crystal methamphetamine, 'Kiwi-crack' or 'P', by enrolling the leadership of both gangs in a movement towards a better future for their people. NZEDGE has invited Denis O’Reilly, social activist, coach, businessman, to tell his story of kia whakarite - the desire to put things right. READ MORE... |
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| Transmit South Pacific identity Transmit is a dynamic digital project, mixing rich images, interactive toys and conscious urban Pacific sounds and rhymes to encourage users to actively play with, challenge, contribute to, and extend the notion of Aotearoa New Zealand's South Pacific identity. Produced by Sarah Hunter in collaboration with new media wizards Oktobor Interactive, and DJ MU, and bought to you in association with NZEdge. "Transmit's the word: pass it on." READ MORE... |
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Pasifika Styles 21ST CENTURY AOTEAROA Maori and Pacific Island art and culture take centre stage at the University of Cambridge from April 2006 with the launch of the Pasifika Styles project. A major exhibition showcasing the work of young New Zealand artists will feature alongside one of the largest collections of Pacific artefacts in the United Kingdom. The project runs for over a year and involves artist-led workshops, talks, performances and a major festival of Pacific performing arts. READ MORE... |
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| Peter Jackson Made in New Zealand NZEdge presents a personal account of the Peter Jackson story (thus far) by filmmaker Costa Botes. His account of Jackson's journey is a steadfastly idiosyncratic case study of innovation, focus and energy from the edge. "In giving himself something to watch, Peter Jackson has given the rest of us good cause to shake off complacency and start thinking about how to realise a few other 'impossible' goals." READ MORE... |
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| Brain Exchange Kiwi Diaspora We are a population of 5 million. 1 million of these people just happen to live overseas. There is Kiwi wealth, influence, innovation, ideas and goodwill swimming around the world and as a country we want it! Brain Exchange brings together the leading articles and studies on the global community of New Zealanders living offshore, their reasons for leaving, staying away, and returning and the importance of connecting with this talented pool of individuals. READ MORE... |
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| A Brand New Zealand? Or a New Zealand Visual Language? Designer Turi Park has written a provocative and timely open letter facing up to the sense and construction process of a Brand New Zealand. It doesn't stamp the wax on the seal but prompts NZers (especially those involved in the creative, design, and image-making communities), to question what it is they're imagining. Published in ProDesign magazine (April/May 2002) NZEdge hosts the on-line debate. READ MORE... |
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Re-entry Coming Home? 'Re-entry' is an NZEdge on-line story-telling initiative. Return to Aotearoa-New Zealand invokes all kinds of emotions - some expected, some not - some short-term some lasting. Hope, excitement, anticipation, frustration, exaltation, isolation, anxiety - a new kind of culture shock. For those of you who are coming back, are thinking about home from off-island, or have actually made the move south, we want to hear your thoughts about the returning. READ MORE... |
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 Moko Te Maori ki Te Ao Maori design and culture has increasing currency beyond the shores of Aotearoa. This is nowhere better illustrated than the images of ta moko found in global advertising, fashion and art. What the leaking, taking, giving, of ta moko on the world stage signifies is an interest in an important part of edge culture. The issues raised - concerning globalisation, racial politics, diplomacy, post-colonialism, emotions and export - and how they’re resolved are a challenge to the history, and future, of an edge society. READ MORE... |
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KR on Rugby Getting it Wide Commentary on the national game republished from Kevin Roberts' monthly column for NZ Rugby World magazine, 'Postcards from the edge'. The All Blacks' record is one of the most impressive in international sport. Kevin follows the efforts of the current edition to preserve the legacy in the modern era. Thinking inside and outside the 100x50m rectangle, the columns give play to KR's unique sense of the place and evolution of the sport in the new New Zealand. READ MORE... |
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Alan Gibbs Floating an Idea The Gibbs Aquada is a world first - a new technology which New Zealand industrialist and entrepreneur Alan Gibbs claims will "revolutionise a portion of the automobile industry over the next two decades." Gibbs calls the high speed amphibian technology "the most significant innovation in the automobile industry in the last 100 years. Essentially we've doubled the utility of the motor vehicle. " READ MORE... |
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JaneInside Journey Within An introduction to JaneInside - a diary styled autobiography about a teenager's journey from the age of 12 to 21 written by Jane Thomsen. The story follows Jane as she struggles with the issues facing teenagers and eventually into a downward spiral of relationship problems, drugs and her own near suicide. JaneInside is being published with the support of Kevin Roberts and all profits form the New Zealand sales are going to the TYLA Trust. READ MORE... |
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Global
Newzmakers Top-60 2002 Back by popular demand - NZEdge and The Sunday Star Times present the Top-60 International New Zealand newsmakers for 2002. The selections represent the diversity, colour and flavour of contemporary NZ achievment, from the well-known: Peter Jackson and LotR team, to the surprising: the edge behind the Apple iMac, Shrek, Parkinson's cure hopes and MTV. READ MORE... |
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