This Week's Bits

This week: The Government's Emissions Trading Scheme; NZ's out of the Google Books Project; are we sitting on vast untapped oil reserves and Uni staff asked to help stop terrorism.

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The Weekly Roundup

This week: the BuzzCocks take over the studio; Tania from Sherlock's Daughter on living in New York, The Unfaithful Ways harmonize on Fancy New Band and Mikey engages in coitus interruptus.

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Len Lye: Art That Moves

Considered to be one of this country's most important artists, the film maker and kinetic sculptor Len Lye spent most of his life offshore in America. However, late in life he found a receptive audience in the homeland and on his death in 1980 his work was transported to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.

One of the people probably most responsible for bringing Len's work in to the public eye is Roger Horrocks. He's written or edited or otherwise been involved in a number of books about Lye, including an authoritative biography published in 2001. This week sees the launch of a new book called Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye. It's a close look at Lye's work and his method of art and is coupled with an exhibition curated by Roger starting this week at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland.

Further reading

The Govett-Brewster's extensive Len Lye page.

Len Lye on youtube: Swinging The Lambeth Walk, A Colour Box and Tusalava.

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News Rage with James Coe

On Saturday the 21st of November, 2009 somewhere between three and six thousand people marched on Queen Street in Auckland. This was the March for Democracy and both James and José were there. These are their thoughts on the matter.

Further reading

Jame's collection of placards from the day.

Kieran Whelan's great Flickr set from the day