Trailer for Wellington actor/director Taika Waititi’s new feature Boy, inspired by the characters from his Oscar-nominated short Two Cars, One Night. His Q+A appearance (in three parts) following the film’s Sundance screening is delightful.
“The Backwards Novel Seen Backwards”, more cleverness by Tom Gauld in The Guardian. (via Dan Wagstaff)
What a beautiful, heavenly place you live in, with a very fine maritime museum.
— Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy complimenting Auckland’s facilites at today’s Big Day Out music festival. But really, where else would he hang out? Crappy video of the gig here.
Cory Doctorow’s new TSA logo. Get the t-shirt.
Eric Peltier’s DADADA-2010. Made me laugh.
Cartoonist Guy Body’s take on Sir Peter Jackson’s knighthood for the New Zealand Herald.
I am in the Christian Louboutin store with my wife. She is behaving like I would if I was in a shop filled with working lightsabers.
— Simon Pegg on Twitter.
Well, that wasn’t even the best PowerPoint presentation I’ve sat through lately.
— Charlie Jane Anders quoting a friend right after watching The Matrix Reloaded, one of the Top 10 Science Fiction Disappointments of the Past Decade.
Would we be surprised, or judgmental, that Elvis cheated on Priscilla? No. People had class in those days, even the media. People knew to turn a blind eye. Even Priscilla looked away. She didn’t act all trashy, chasing his car out of Graceland, smashing the windows with blue suede shoes.
— Raybon Kan, writing in the New Zealand Herald, offers a voice of reason in defence of Tiger Woods. Hilarious. (via Michael Green)
I don’t believe in robots. Why would anyone build something with so many parts when we still have monkeys.
— Jason Fried. (via Friedisms)
