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McCain and Clark

By Dan + November 4th, 2008

To compare John Key to Barack Obama, is a bit of a stretch. It is easy however to compare McCain to Clark.
Neither have aged particularly well, and both enjoy an overt degree of photoshop love in campaign photographs.
They both represent the dying throes of idea bereft governments due for pasture.
Both have counter intuitively pursued oppostional, [...]

I’m not sure what this guy gets paid…

By Dan + October 20th, 2008

Winston

By Dan + September 9th, 2008

Seth Godin is talking about the US election, but I couldn’t help but think of Winston Peters when I read his blog post entitled “Spin”:
“Humans are lie detectors.
We hear stories. We enjoy them. We try them on for size. We’re looking for falsehoods and we sniff them out.
We value the truth and we enjoy it. [...]

Mareko

By Dan + July 10th, 2008

Ha, a large portion of this video was filmed on my doorstep, literally. Mareko’s second single from his second album is a semi ironic take on hit making, possibly taking some inspiration from The Manual. I especially enjoyed the punchline reference to Fast Crew. This song itself intentionally employs most of the tactics it derides, [...]

Invade New Zealand

By Dan + July 9th, 2008

 
I’m convinced.

I realize the percentage of the market that care may well be too small to for game developer to cater for, but DAMN the Maori inspired facial tattoo’s in the video game world are bad.
Take this guy from the upcoming XBOX360 game Gears of War 2 above, real moko tell a story, this guy’s story [...]

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McCain and Clark November 4th, 2008
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McCain and Clark

To compare John Key to Barack Obama, is a bit of a stretch. It is easy however to compare McCain to Clark. Neither have aged particularly well, and bo[...] Read the rest »