New Zealand has reclaimed the world record for the largest mass haka after 6,531 people performed the Māori dance, dethroning France. “We want to bring the mana [pride] of the haka back home,” the organizer said. (The Guardian, September 30, 2024)
Tag: New Zealand
Drone On, Please.
Shore break, Trey Ratcliff: “South Island of New Zealand. Just north of the Haast Pass on the West Coast is a pretty desolate and lonely place. In fact, the entire South Island, which is *roughly* the size of California, only has 1 mil people on it (Cali has 40 mil). Anyway, most of the west coast of the South Island is covered in a dense and beautiful forest. I found this area of the coast where the waves are undercutting the land and the trees dramatically tip over into the ocean to be battered around.” (via thisisnthappiness)
Atlas Obscura: “Drone-Piloting Scientists ‘Weighed’ Whales From 130 Feet in the Air” (via thisisnthappiness)
Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call… (after long weekend)
Volume up.
If only we could celebrate and thank all of our teachers with similar enthusiasm. Bravo Boys.
New Zealand High School Boys Honor Retiring Teacher With Moving Haka. Guidance Counsellor John Adams was a teacher for 30 years. (Story here)
Morning Light
Stephen Howard, Morning Light (Tree Island Series), Oil on Board, 800 x 800 mm. (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)
“Born in Masterton, Stephen Howard lived in Christchurch, New Zealand for several years before relocating to Auckland. Howard paints New Zealand architecture and landscape, but manipulates the subject matter to give an atmospheric sense of strangeness. Contrasts are his thing – a tree against the repetitive patterns of an apartment block, a pale concrete building with a dark doorway and rust over the door. Howard seldom depicts a single place. He takes buildings out of their original context and re-imagines them in a way that questions reality, rather than reflecting it. His work is contradictory in that the organic forms of his colour field works are achieved by calculated attention to detail and the building up of many layers of paint. Howard has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland since 1978.”
See more of his incredible art here: Parnell Gallery.
Just another Māori Wedding
Haka is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance, challenge or act of support from the Māori people of New Zealand. This Haka was performed at Benjamin & Aaliyah Armstrong’s wedding.
Wow. Moved.