Issue 41

For Bill, portraits were an occupational hazard and a source of income; workmanlike, but oddly at variance with his other work, i.e. landscapes largely empty of people. Had he painted only portraits he would have been a very minor footnote in New Zealand art, but fortunately he spent nearly fifty years defining the landscape of…

..Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. I think it’s my first ‘motion capture’ movie on the big screen, (although I’ve seen bits of Beowulf on Foxtel) and, while it’s impressively realistic in capturing movement accurately, it falls a bit flat in nearly every other respect. Having said that, the backgrounds are stupendously rich and detailed and…

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..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…