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melbourne mime

This is a beautiful woman I met and asked her to be in my music video. My friend advised me not to take my handycam into the art gallery where I just wanted some footage in the stairwell - you know...

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Taking the LOMO LC-A for a walk in New York City

Biting the Big Apple: Ila Couch takes the Lomo LC-A for a test drive around the streets of New York City and rediscovers her love of analog photography.

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article from Kiwi artist on the first International Conference on Culture and...

I  wrote an article on the first International Culture|Futures Conference on Culture and Climate Change which I attended in Copenhagen in Dec 09. I'm a Kiwi who has been living in Ireland these past 15...

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What a Wild Week in a Wintery Wonderland

I have had a really wild week.It is has been freezing, snowing and my hands have really struggled with the activities we have carried out out in that cold wintery environment. Read More »

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First Postcard from London

It was a good day, for a Serb, to Arrive in London on the day when Novak Djokovic won Wimbledon tittle. But it was more my New Zealand pacifica style flax top-hat that made me feel victorious, as...

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Poetry Place

Although today was my second day in London, it was a day of “firsts”: my very first day in the poetry office! I mean a poetry office that is not my bedroom or a local library or cafe with a wireless...

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A Poetry evening, with a Bouncer

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The Word's a Stage – Forging Fantastic New Poetry

I arrived for my internship at Apples and Snakes at a time of severe cuts to government funding of the arts across the UK. Read More »

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Launch event for the NZ Studies Network at Birkbeck

A weekend away from the Apples and Snakes office gave me a chance to further explore literary and poetry scene in London, including Kiwi contribution.Read More »

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Poetry Around the Clock

Being sick is not fun, not even in London; trust me. But luckily my employer “The God of Poetry” ( if there was one ), lets me stay in bed and … of course work on poetry: 24 hours. Actually only 12...

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Latitude and Longitude

Latitude Festival, I want my money back!Not that I ever had to pay to get in, but seriously: what is the purpose of Read More »

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Transport and Transportation

If I wanted only to list all the places that I visited in the past week or so, it would exceed the format of a postcard: Newcastle, Whistable, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool …. If I was to list all the...

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Being ( with ) John Malkovich …

Edinburgh August 2011.IT'S raining and the temperature is falling with the wind whipping in from the Firth of Forth. As John Malkovich, one of Hollywood's most famous stars, found out on the city's...

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MASTERCLASS IN GLASS

LIMITED PLACES REMAINING Intensive 5 day Masterclass by renowned Glass Master Dr Gerry King from Australia celebrating his 40th year in glass. Fully catered lunches, glass and tuition all included.

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Design news from the DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2012

The Strand Bike. Looks very innovative, the material (carbon) was also used for the structure, found in Berlin at the DMY 2012, Design by Studio Tjeerd Veedhoven. By Benjamin Ochse

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A Town, a Man, a Star, a Stone, a God

 If?a man is “just a spiritual extension of the place he lives in” People must be very proud to live, in this place  If?a god was electable,  Read More »

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The Heart Asks for Pleasure First, Bergen, Norway, May 2013

 The Heart Asks for Pleasure First  Morning, delivered by raindropsocean winds stacked with grayness. Kind of grayness that makes your heart and soul into a gray matter.  Read More »

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Waking up to Carnival in Barranquilla, Colombia

“Mangos! Papayas! Melons!” Read More »

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Far, far away - dance piece by Kristine Nilsen Oma, premieres in Bergen,...

Kidnapped   And, once again, when all the stars hide behind the horizon, and unite into one. Read More »

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Duck Bunny Theatre presents The Fridge, a new comedy in Canberra

In a re-imagining of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, kiwi theatre-maker Alister Emerson of Duck Bunny Theatre presents a new satirical play The Fridge, which mocks the powerful, and exposes the foolish in...

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The Train of the Poets VI, Cuenca

The Train of the Poets leaves from Atocha station, Madrid, on the dot, the gates closing two minutes before departure, and each of us had left something at home and had to run back to collect it. Five...

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Tapestry In Glass - Richard Parrish Visiting New Zealand

Richard Parrish former lecturer in Architecture in Montana is looking forward to presenting his 5 day workshop in Wanganui this coming October 2014. For More information on this opportunity contact...

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Aloha from Hawai'i

ArtistNet is about highlighting and connecting via a kupenga the creative minds from Aoteaora New Zealand who live or visit Hawai’i to promote their artistic projects. If you are heading to Hawai'i, be...

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NZ poet with ZEBRA in Berlin

I was recently in Berlin where two poetry films I made with Antena Blue had been selected, out of 550 films from 70 countries, to be shown in the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. Fortunately I’m based in...

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Football and poetry in Granada Book Fair

We were in Granada, recently denominated a UNESCO City of Literature, at the invitation of the publisher Cuadernos del Vigía and the Association Diente del Oro, to give a poetry recital in the...

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Book presentation of Spanish poetry

What has happened? I have just presented in Madrid, Spain, the third book in the collection Palabras Prestadas (Given Words) titled "Palabras Prestadas 3", which celebrates the third year of this...

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