#58: Looking Over The Edge

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Edge Message #58 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM

NEW ZEALAND EDGE VISUAL STORIES:
Today we are proud to bring you a major update to the New Zealand Edge website experience. ‘Imagery’ is a series of picture galleries beginning to tell the visual stories of the New Zealand Edge a project that we have been maturing and sharpening over 2002. The result: 15 galleries articulating in 300 photographs, icons, text and images, different aspects of the nzedge metaphor, evocative and provocative in equal measure. Big cheers to contributing photographers.
http://nzedge.com/gallery/index.htm

NEWZEDGE:
http://nzedge.com/media/index.html
In the this month’s edition of newzedge, Peter “the Kiwi George Lucas” Jackson again claims the headlines on the eve of the release of Two Towers with a Time cover feature. Other z-spots in the world’s online media:

Brian ‘Hendo’ Henderson, legendary Aussie broadcaster signs off
City of London CEO Judith Mayhew “one of Britain’s most powerful women”
South Island among world’s top-4 “see before you die” destinations in BBC
Lee Tamahori helms “best 007 in 20 years”
LA Times covers body-painter to the stars Joanne Gair
America’s Cup previews see observers wondering at the NZ edge
Dick Hubbard is socially conscious messiah of muesli in Independent
Observer goes off the cat-walk edge for Karen Walker’s high casual styles
Obits: Maori performing arts icon Dalvanius Prime, legendary trans-world explorer David Lewis, and Botanist Betty Molesworth Allen
“The people’s horse” Sunline runs her last race in Australia
Kerry Black makes waves in Cornwall
Bic Runga takes Time to make a Beautiful Collision
Smithsonian awed as Peter Waddell paints the US capitol
Sir Peter Blake honoured with prestigious Olympic Order
Carmen swings with pride at Sydney’s Gay Games
Clicksuite’s NZ Dictionary of Biography website up for multimedia Oscars
Damien Wilkins bonds with Guardian reviewer
The future is All Black after the northern winter’s pre-World Cup clashes
Pinetree Meads gives the hard copy to the Observer
Te Vaka’s Pacific sounds nominated for BBC World Music Awards
“Creative genius” chef Shaun Osborn is London’s Kiwi Michelin Man.
Keeping the web’s brain sharp, Dennis Dutton’s Arts and Letters is back
London Review of Books bathes in Rita Angus’ sun worshipping Wgtn houses
Roger Horrock’s bio of modernist maverick Len Lye moves critics
Kiwi wool is shag of choice, the bard finds te reo, cars flock to NZ to be seen, and an Aussie heckler sees where the grass is greener in SMH and advocates annexing Aotearoa as a drought solution

EDGE ECOLOGY:
Terra Nature Fund is an innovative project working to make the world aware of Aotearoa’s extraordinary and internationally significant ecology. Terra Nature Fund operates in the US as a tax-exempt organisation, allowing New Zealanders filing US tax returns the chance to make tax deductible donations – tapping into
the potential of the global network of New Zealanders in a fresh way. As the pohutukawas begin to bloom downunder to herald the season this is an opportunity to connect, engage with, and help preserve, the whenua that makes Aotearoa unique in the world. See http://www.terranature.org/.

We’re delighted to bring you the new visual experience that the galleries add to the nzedge website as we open our iris on edge sights and symbols. Look forward to 2003 for accelerated developments as the edge metaphor, place and people gain in reach and currency.

Brian Sweeney
Producer
New Zealand Edge
www.nzedge.com
brian@nzedge.com