Understandable outrage
Te Pahu Miffed at Underground Plan
The burgeoning rural community of Te Pahu is miffed at being left out of the proposed new Hamilton Underground rail system.
Well known for its far sighted transport initiatives Te Pahu used to have two return busses per day prior to the automobile explosion of the 1960’s. Since that time the population has increased ten fold, many of the new residents commuting into Hamilton City.
Unlike the above ground lines to Ngaruawahia, Morrinsville, Cambridge and Te Awamutu, the Te Pahu line (an extension of the Temple View line) is intended to travel the whole distance underground, so as to cause minimum inconvenience.
Our lifestyle blocks have sidelined enough productive farm land as it is – no point wasting any more on an ugly railway line. This will also save tens of millions on land acquisition and bridge construction. But the main long term saving will be on fuel and roading. Up to five hundred cars will be taken off the western access routes into Hamilton, saving between 1500 and 2000 litres of fuel per day.
Yes folks, we have a logo!
No cool anything can go without a logo these days. Now mine took a little bit longer to create, but may I present…
The logo!
Another finished present
I made this one for a dear friend of mine for his birthday. It’s his million dollar bumper sticker idea, so don’t steal it!
And a couple of up-close shots…
Buy This Book!
An old buddy of mine has written a book which has just been published. I read what I guess was an earlier version of it and it was pretty bloody cool. So you should all buy it and support local, independent, conscious, groovy authors. Yeah!
Warruk: Reflections in Black and White
by Vaughan Nikitin
An Earth-Story (Part) Written in an Aboriginal Language
“In the spring of 1988, two teenage boys disappeared for seven nights in a wild and mystical region of Gippsland in south east Australia. Both were from proud families with a long history in the area. One of the clans arrived in 1878, soon after the first European settlers; the other before the last ice age. One of the boys wrote this story; the other is dead. One never had a chance to say he was sorry; the other never had a chance…”
Enter the reflective world of Wurruk (earth/story), a bullum (dual) memoir of the lives of bullum (two) tallumart (young men) as told by Vaughan Nikitin – in relation to his aboriginal yunki (mate) and brogan (brother), Tommy Hinkins: together, this is their self-portrait. Share their search for identity in this journey through space, time and the unforgotten language of their ancestors (the legends of the kurnai – ganai – gannai – gunnai – and the mountain cattlemen).
Wurruk is one man’s attempt to reconcile with (his) place by way of a part real, part imagined memoir. The author juxtaposes his own story with that of his doppelgänger, Tommy Hinkins, a representation of the Kurnai people, the first people of Gippsland, Australia, leading up to the death of one by the Den of Nargun, near the Mitchell River in eastern Victoria.
Go to the website and buy it today!
Embroidery activism
Check out the work of Lise Bjorn at Women of Juarez
The exhibition will feature an installation by Norwegian artist Lise Bjorne. Lise’s project will be an installation made up of hundreds of labels embroidered with the names of the dead and missing women from Ciudad Juarez. The embroidery will be done on an international scale through various small workshops with each participant embroidering one woman’s name onto a label while the group is being presented the situation in Juarez and discussing the problem.
That’s cool.
I’d thought about doing a similar thing myself. There’s a horrific sex slave trade for young girls (yes that’s girls not women, like as young as 7) where the girls get the name of their owner tattooed on their arm. When one of them gets sold, the old name gets crossed out and a new owner name tattooed on. Some of them have a long list. Possibly one of the most sickening things I have ever heard about.
I was going to do a cross stitch of a long list of the names of all of these scum that could possibly do that to another human, let along a young girl. It’s on the list of things to make..
First finished stitch!
I know I’m bound to get shit for this one but it was for a friend who was just been through the worst possible boy shit, so it’s appropriate.
wow
I just hit 10, 000 hits on this website. And that’s since February. Nice!
Thanks to all the people that have come to visit, hope you had fun. ‘Cause that’s the most important thing!