For Cushla There is so much space Between me And the sky In every way Less between us That heart of yours Sends shockwaves Sun blasts from the sky Heats the back Pacifies Drawn deep from the belly Of Papatuanuku You are wild You are Full of storm You are the eye of your own […]
Category: Social Commentary
Omoiyari ~ take time to really care about others
A Seido karate meditation by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura, founder of World Seido Karate Organisation, from the book: Karate ~ Technique and Spirit by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura. I often use this meditation as it really speaks to me. Osu! I want to concentrate on the word omoiyari which means thoughtfulness, sincere thoughtfulness. It means caring: caring for […]
An End To Indifference ~ Zurich See
Sometimes it’s just good luck! From Berlin I was to travel to Rome via, I was to discover later, the Czech Republic. Fortunately, as apparently happens often, the trains were on strike. I say fortunately because I hadn’t realized that the train I was booked on detoured into Czechoslovakia and I had none of the […]
Rosemary ~ That’s For Remembrance
A reflection on Shakespeare’s old home town … The harshest European winter for over one hundred years and there I was in a short-sleeved blouse in Warwickshire. Stratford to be totally accurate, and staying at the Greensleeves Guest House just over the bridge to the north of the town. In the afternoon of the first […]
Girls are from Gaia, Boys are from Penis ~ the truth about gender difference as might have been mooted by Tiresias
It’s all about sex. Like, you didn’t know that. Not sexuality, not gender, but simple fucking. You knew that too, didn’t you? You just don’t like to admit that it’s something so primitive ~ so without love, so without affection, so without … meaning. Fucking, of course, is never that simple. Why? Because we, as […]
‘A Copy is a Copy if it Looks Like a Copy’
Below is an essay I wrote for one of my master’s law papers: Yvette Lawrence is an artist. In 2000, Yvette, whose specialist genre is photo-realism, painted a work depicting two figures, one male and one female, seated on a slat bench and holding eight large Alasatian puppies, four each. Yvette sold this work to […]
From Stag to Hard-Core ~ How The Genre Evolved
Observations ~ Probably the most significant developments in the evolution from stag to hard-core film relate to the move to full-length, feature complete with colour, sound and cohesive narrative along with the shift to an ending that enabled the audience to ‘withdraw satisfied’. The hard-core form became more sophisticated as the technological and philosophical move […]
Conventions for Representing Sex in ‘Last Tango in Paris’ and ‘Deep Throat’
Observations ~ ‘Last Tango in Paris’ represents sex in a conventional mainstream 1972 European art house style but ‘pushes the envelope’ of the genre by introducing edgy, dark content such as the digital anal penetration of Paul, the butter-assisted sodomising of Jeanne and the final public ‘handjob’. The gaze appears to be neutral or male […]
The Comedy of Errors ~ a theatre review
The Comedy of Errors By William Shakespeare UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts Shakespeare Season 2013 Directed by Jacque Drew Set by Natasha Pearl Costume design by Kelli Prince Lighting design by Tim Williams Sound design by Steven Youhana UNITEC Theatre Reviewed on 08 June, 2012 Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Not to beat about the […]
Hamlet ~ a theatre review
Hamlet Experimental variation on themes and text by William Shakespeare UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts Shakespeare Season 2013 Directed by Benjamin Henson Set by Natasha Pearl Costume design by Amy Beales Lighting design by Sam Denize Sound design by Steven Youhana UNITEC Theatre Reviewed on 07 June, 2012 Published at http://www.theatreview.org.nz Claude Bernard […]
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