EDGE #402 – New Zealand “The New Leader of the Free World” + 21 other stories

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 10 June 2020 | #402 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington) and Alexandra Burnside (New York). See all stories and a 16,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2020 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. Politics and Economics | Medium 09 June 2020 New Zealand “The New Leader of the Free World” “When I say ‘new leader of the free world’, I don’t just mean Jacinda Ardern. I mean New Zealand. As a society,” London-based consultant, leading thinker and author Umair Haque writes in a feature for Medium. “New Zealand is a textbook example of what it… Business | Vogue 10 June 2020 Allbirds and Adidas Team up on New Carbon-Zero Shoe Footwear competitors Adidas and Allbirds, co-founded by former All White, Tim Brown, are setting aside strategic and intellectual property…   Visual Arts | Copper Canyon Press (The) 04 June 2020 Artist Max Gimblett goes Oxherding with Lewis Hyde Auckland born New Yorker and pre-eminent New Zealand artist Max Gimblett has produced his most significant book collaboration with American poet,…   Visual Arts | Sydney Morning Herald (The) 09 June 2020 Hugh Stewart’s FaceTime Portraits Shots of Lockdown Working from a pop-up studio in the garage of his Sydney home, New Zealand-born photographer Hugh Stewart has captured the experience and…   Motorsports | Australian Financial Review (The) 07 June 2020 McLaren Remembers Life of Brilliant Founder “Fifty years after [New Zealander] Bruce McLaren’s sudden and tragic death in a motoring accident [at Goodwood Circuit in England], the company he started remembers…   Business | Australian Financial Review (The) 09 June 2020 Whispir’s Jeromy Wells Likes a Challenge New Zealander Jeromy Wells, the chief executive and founder of listed cloud communication platform and workflow software company Whispir, denies COVID-19 is the best thing…   Music | Manila Times (The) 02 June 2020 Meet Theia Our New Alt-Pop Artist on the Rise After Lorde and Kimbra conquered the world music scene, there is another New Zealander who’s making waves, according to Manila Times correspondent, Mark…   Film & TV | Observer (The) 01 June 2020 Sam Neill Locked in the Kitchen New Zealand actor Sam Neill talks to the UK’s Observer about shunning fame, putting his latest movie on hold, online cooking … and playing Radiohead’s Creep on the ukulele. Neill, star of Jurassic…   Taste | Stuff 31 May 2020 Nelson’s Kakariki Olives Wins Gold Medal in NY Nelson’s Kakariki Olives, produced by Ray and Brenda Gregory, was one of several New Zealand brands that received gold at the New York International…   Business | South China Morning Post 30 May 2020 From TV to Hot Sauce Charlie Page Looks Ahead Radical job switches are daunting, but they have the power to rewire entire careers and lives, according to Ed Peters in as story for the South China Morning Post….   Science/Tech | Daily Mail 29 May 2020 Robotic Spot Put to Work Shepherding Flocks A collaboration between New Zealand-based cloud-based software platform Rocos and American robotics company Boston Dynamics, has been heralded as the future of farming,…   Design | Architectural Digest 28 May 2020 Designer Sandra Nunnerley’s NY Home Exudes Calm Wellington-born interior designer Sandra Nunnerley’s apartment – located in a turn-of-the-century Carrère and Hastings town house on Manhattan’s…   Film & TV | Vanity Fair 27 May 2020 Cogs Begin to Turn on Avatar Sequel Set Leave it to James Cameron to find a way to work through a pandemic, Yohana Desta writes for Vanity Fair. Like every other major film production, the Avatar sequel – which has been…   Visual Arts | Radio Prague International 26 May 2020 Photographer Amos Chapple’s Love Letter to Prague High above street level, scores of magnificent statues gaze down over the historical centre of Prague. These rooftop figures – which normally go…   Architecture | Observer (The) 25 May 2020 Peka Peka Eco Dome Ahead of the Curve Friedrich “Fritz” and Helen Eisenhofer’s idiosyncratic dwelling, in the small hamlet of Peka Peka north of Wellington, is a prototype domestic biodome for what Fritz, a modernist…   Politics and Economics | BBC 24 May 2020 Why is New Zealand so Progressive? She wasn’t the only mother checking in with their whānau that evening. But this woman was Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, and the one who had decided – on expert advice – to…   Media | Muse by Clio 22 May 2020 Cheil CCO Martyn Poynton Takes Two Minutes New Zealander Malcolm Poynton joined ad agency Cheil Worldwide at the beginning of 2015 as the network’s first global chief creative officer, following celebrated stints…   Visual Arts | BBC 21 May 2020 Capturing Copeisolation on Rakiura/Stewart Island Originally from Estonia, Laire Purik is documenting the life of the residents of Rakiura “through windows, through the gates” as they cope with the…   Media | POPSUGAR 20 May 2020 Twenty-Somethings Trio Helping Us Give a Sh*t Most of us get at least a small percentage of our daily news from Instagram, according to lifestyle site, POPSUGAR. But there’s one account, the site says, that…   Community | Shanghai Daily 03 June 2015 5 YEARS AGO New Zealanders Have High Sense of Meaning in Their Lives 83 percent of New Zealanders are highly satisfied with their lives while 87 percent feel a high sense of purpose or meaning in their lives, according to a recent survey…   New Zealand | Telegraph (The) 7 June 2010 10 YEARS AGO Anything but the Bungy Lyttelton-based Joe Bennett, author of Hello Dubai: Skiing, Sand and Shopping in the World’s Weirdest City, tells the Telegraph why Queenstown is his kind of town. “It’s the main visitor town of…   Travel | National (The) 01 June 2005 15 YEARS AGO Earthly Paradise A South African couple take a tour NZ by campervan, pronouncing it “Eden on Earth.” Highlights include the Moeraki Boulders at Omaru, Lanarch Castle, Franz Josef Glacier, Tongariro National Park, Sandspit and the…