Edge Message #130 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM
Greetings. NZEDGE.COM publishes daily on Facebook and Twitter. This newsletter presents a selection of New Zealanders appearing in the world’s media in the last week.
Jim McLay, former deputy PM, now ambassador to UN, praises blue-helmet work – Kansas City Star
Ponoko, 3D manufacturing pioneer, inks “Make It” embedding deal with Autodesk – Mercury News
Sam Martin, ex-Christchurch landscaper, wins green redevelopment of iconic Battersea – TVNZ
Natural History NZ archives to represent 20 years of National Geographic footage – C21
Maori head returned to NZ after 136 years solitude in Normandy museum – Washington Post
NZDefence Force contingent bound for Timor-Leste for six-month tour-of-duty – People’s Daily
Air NZ’s “innovative” Skycouch, wins Condé Nast Aviation Design Award – CNN Traveller
John Kirwan, former AllBlack star winger, Japan coach, lives for rugby – Sport 360
Tim Radford’s Address Book is beautiful, meditative, in these clamorous times – Guardian
Kiri Te Kanawa returns to Israel after a decade to sing in Jerusalem – The Jerusalem Post
Dunedin’s rise to prominence as gateway to Otago came with striking gold – Monsters & Critics
Waikato University scientists find sunlight improves survival of pneumonia patients – People’s Daily
Mountford Estate ’07 ‘Liaison’ Pinot Noir ‘Wine of the Week’, “a lovely expression” – LA Times
Seresin Estate replaces tractors with Clydesdales in new holistic approach to wine – Huffington Post
High country musterers begin autumn drive of the only sheep that matters – Irish Times
See all stories and a 7,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2011 at NZEDGE/MEDIA.
NEW ZEALAND HALL OF FAME: 50 REMARKABLE NEW ZEALANDERS
Congratulations to winners of a contest to nominate people for a second volume of New Zealand Hall of Fame: 50 Remarkable New Zealanders. The first volume has just been released (purchase here); by writer Maria Gill, illustrator Bruce Potter, and publisher New Holland. The New Zealanders nominated were
James K Baxter, poet
Burt Munro, motorcycle speedster
Clarence Beeby, educationalist
Keith Park, WWII air hero
John Britten, motorcycle designer
Richard Pearse, first aviator
Barry Crump, bushman, novelist
Herbert Pither, early aviator
Denis Glover, war hero, poet
Ernest Rutherford, atomic physicist
Eve van Grafhorst, HIV battler
Bert Sutcliffe, cricketer, batsman
Richard Hadlee, fast bowler
Beatrice Tinsley, astronomer
Fred Hollows, eye doctor, humanitarian
Charles Upham, WWII warrior
Janet Frame, novelist
James Waddell, WWI warrior
Dick Frizzell, painter
Gillian Weir, concert organist
Arthur Lydiard, athletics coach
Wilson Whineray, All Black captain
Colin McCahon, artist, seer
Inia te Wiata, opera star, carver
Thanks to everyone who contributed, every person nominated is an outstanding New Zealander. Winners: Terry Dunleavey (Inia te Wiata), Gordon Dryden (Clarence Beeby), Mark Sutherland (Fred Hollows), and Warren Olsen (Denis Glover). There are essays on 10 of the 24 nominees on nzedge so I took these people out. Hollows has to be on any list of great New Zealanders because he literally gave vision to tens of thousands. Beeby’s tribute by UNESCO speaks for itself. Glover was a character and a half. te Wiata because he was great at two things (singing and carving); Toby Clark from London has just sent this YouTube of Inia carving the poupou that stands in New Zealand House in London. Get your own copy of New Zealand Hall of Fame: 50 Remarkable New Zealanders at the NZEdge Store $34.99 + postage.
INTERNATIONAL DATE BOOK
AUCKLAND, THIS WEEK: DARK ECOLOGIES Ecotheorist Timothy Morton UNSW) and media arts historian Douglas Kahn (UC Davis), the first of the 2011 Dialogues with Tomorrow: How do we sense and make sense of immense phenomena, such as climate change, or radiation, which are real, but real in ways which most of us do not directly experience? How do we radically question the ways in which we understand and interact with what used to be known as ‘nature’? Auckland University of Technology Wed 25 May 10.30-12noon. Free entry, all welcome. Sophie Jerram and Dugal McKinnon.
VENICE, NOW, HYE RIM LEE Artist Hye Rim Lee exhibits her new 3d animation, Strawberry Garden (above) at Glasstress 2011 in the 54th Venice Biennale, collateral event; and two further exhibitions in Venice, Future Pass (Victoria Lu curating) at Pallazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, the photograph Crystal Candy, High Gloss Dollswill be in the exhibition; and at Momentum Collection at Palazzo Albrizzi, the work Obsession/ Love Forever.
Top picture, Raumati South, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand. More pictures at www.paradiseroad.com. Fern symbol viawww.nzflag.com.
