Lyndon Hood - one thumb up, Wellington
Monday, March 01, 2010
What's Lyndon doing?
Scoop Full Coverage: Arts Festival 2010, that's what Lyndon's doing.
I always prefer organising when it's over.
Scoop Full Coverage: Arts Festival 2010, that's what Lyndon's doing.
I always prefer organising when it's over.
Labels: reviews, scoop, wellington international arts festival
Lyndon Hood - vs vampires, Wellington
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Werewolf V is here.
I wrote a thing for it. It is not all entirely true.
I’m not a great one for keeping commitments made on this blog, but I think I can improve on one column every two months. I don’t think it was just me; is it something in the air? I took to saying they seemed daft enough at the moment without me pointing it out.
Also, it’s been busy at the office. I have done a bit of work in the humour line which may possibly see the light of day at some point.
Anyhow, speaking of press releases, in the meantime I saw In The Loop at the cinema and managed to catch Live At Six at Bats. (Incidentally, I have never been on the Bats waiting list and failed to get in.)
These are interestingly parallel and basically realistic condemnations of the state of mass-consumer politics and media respectively. It’s probably historical utopianism, but those institutions seem to have done for debate the same thing supermarkets did for food.
They also both featured a terrifyingly capable amoral PR fixer, a type which now I think about it is a satire almost by itself. Though In The Loop also made a point of being cruel to him, which was nice.
Another thing they had in common was they made Lyndon feel inadequate.
Note to self: write more stuff.
Arts Festival looks good, by the way (I refer to the programme rather than the visual identity). And I'm not just saying that because of all their wine I drunk at the launch. We will be soliciting reviewers in due course...
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Labels: human rights, in the loop, legislation, live at six, nz politics, press releases, satire, wellington international arts festival, werewolf
Lyndon Hood - reviewerer, Wellington
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Inside The Mind Of A Reviewer: da da da da da da da da da Da da Da da
The other night I went to see Shen Wei Dance Arts at the Festival. My research consisted of listening to The Rite of Spring on the train into and out of work during the day. With the perhap predictable effect of having the thing stuck in my head for some time afterwards.
After the Shen Wei I went and took photos of people playing with their shadows in the Body Movies installation. It occurred to me that a mashup of the two events would be quite something.
Scoop has been kind enough to make its Arts Festival coverage available on the web.
The other night I went to see Shen Wei Dance Arts at the Festival. My research consisted of listening to The Rite of Spring on the train into and out of work during the day. With the perhap predictable effect of having the thing stuck in my head for some time afterwards.
After the Shen Wei I went and took photos of people playing with their shadows in the Body Movies installation. It occurred to me that a mashup of the two events would be quite something.
Scoop has been kind enough to make its Arts Festival coverage available on the web.
Labels: art, dance, music, wellington international arts festival
