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Fuelled by Kickstarter uprising, blog finds second life
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 5:14 pm | James Robinson
Running three times a week on Stuff.co.nz from July 2011 through to October 2013, James Robinson's Voyages in America was both a critical and audience hit as the author chronicled his move out of Wellington and into the great American unknown. Throughout ... More >>
Beach blanket bathos on the beach
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:16 pm | James Robinson
N ew Zealand has a close relationship with Samoa ; Samoa, to us, is a little bit like Mexico is to the USA, but cleansed of most of the overt legislative and racial tension. It is one of few places where a Waikato Chiefs Super 14 shirt is worn with ... More >>
Interview: Wellington music legend Disasteradio
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 2:13 pm | James Robinson
S ometimes it seems that we operate in a cultural environment with few straight answers. Irony has taken over the world, and made developing cultural capital akin to walking over a field of broken glass. When everything is changing all over the ... More >>
Werewolf: Disasteradio vs The Music Industry
Friday, 20 November 2009, 1:30 pm | James Robinson
Disasteradio (or “Luke Rowell” as some may refer to him) is a modern subversion of the singer-songwriter - one man and a computer, not a guitar. While firmly in the underground camp he’s a wellknown name to most clubbers in his hometown, Wellington ... More >>
Werewolf: Convincing The Landlords
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 2:26 pm | James Robinson
N ew Zealand is not a country known for its imposing cityscapes. Looking back over the Wellington skyline from Oriental Bay at night would probably seem quaint to those more intimately familiar with a city on the scale of Manhattan or Hong Kong. More >>