Issue 128

..know I’m pro-procrastination as a lifestyle, but the practised procrastinator has to have a steady nerve to hold firm to his or her course of inaction. I did get badly stung in one respect, and that can be directly attributed to hanging on just that little bit too long. About a month before I was…

..three dimensional look. For those who didn’t do basic film studies a cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate that it can be laid over other cels or a painted background, then photographed. The cels change subtly with each image so that the images flow almost naturally when projected at twenty-four frames per second….

Anyway, this particular setback to my innocence happened on a rainy day at the family farm (Mendip Hills) in North Canterbury, two or three hours north of the now blighted city of Christchurch. Mendip Hills was the jewel in the crown of the Rutherford family, our forebears on our mother’s side. Our grandfather, Norman Rutherford,…

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..not generally natural to where wombats delve. Many fragile metres of foil and fibreglass were regarded as a mere inconvenience to its general construction and mining operations and were demolished both rapidly and noisily in the small hours of a winter morning as it waddled and crumped its way under the house to directly underneath…

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