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snap crackle pop
The skateboard deck industry is becoming ever more competitive in the past years and this has led to new ideas and directions being followed in the development of the boards we trust. This can’t be seen as something bad as the industry has to push the limits to make decks evolve, become better, lighter, more robust and add that little extra of pop than the other companies. Maple trees are cut down after growing for several decades. I’m not going to dive ointo that topic investigating who replants trees and all of the related factors. Just putting it out there if we ride maple board today will Bamboo is interesting and definitely worth following up on when you choose your next deck?
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Doom
The working definition of 'musician' has shifted towards something more personal moving away from the rules and standardization of the profession. Doom Re-defines music values that underpin his practice. Music is no longer bound to the discourse of the elite. Creative sounds, vibrations, egg beaters, distortion, deflating balloons is all noise that can be transformed into music. That is how it is for me anyway. I never used to identify myself as a musician because of these unwritten rules that say it must be like this and that. Music is something far more personal and deeply infused within the imagined social and cultural worlds that we associate with. There is also the individual therapeutic and spiritual side too. Music is touchy feeling hardcore straight up, controversial argumentation, fight-music, sexy, viewpoint and so it should be! Blah Wish me luck for my music exam today/ Operations Doomsday!
PS
This video clip is tribute to Daniel Dumile who goes by the name of MF Doom also known as, Madvillain, Victor Von Danger Mouse, Doom, Metal Face, Metal Fingers. Have a listen ->if you don't like rap then listen to the intrumental albums special herbs under the name Metal Fingers you wont be disappointed. BTW the Mmmm Food album is truly amazing!
Cheers
juz
PS
This video clip is tribute to Daniel Dumile who goes by the name of MF Doom also known as, Madvillain, Victor Von Danger Mouse, Doom, Metal Face, Metal Fingers. Have a listen ->if you don't like rap then listen to the intrumental albums special herbs under the name Metal Fingers you wont be disappointed. BTW the Mmmm Food album is truly amazing!
Cheers
juz
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Nurtured by Natures gift
Our Homeland Aotearoa: The Tui in the Kowhai
When the Tui sits in the Kowhai tree
and the sun tips the mountain tops with gold
when the Rata blooms in the forest glade,
and the hills glow with sunny tints untold.
I love to roam through bush and fern
and hear the Bellbird sing
and feel the touch of the wind on my face
while the joy in my heart does ring.
There are some who long for coral sands
and some for wind-swept plains
while others roam the ocean wide
then pine for home again.
But give to me the care-free life
by mountain, lake or shore
of the lovely land of the Long White Cloud,
Our Homeland Aotearoa.
Words A. G. Hall, 1920s. Music "Pretty Caroline", traditional
Iwi-katere - Owner of a wise bird
Tui were often kept in cages an taught words and songs. Long ago, at Te Wairoa on the east coast, a rangatira named Iwi-katere owned a pet tui, called Tane-miti-rangi, which he taught ritual chants of every kind. The bird became so knowledgeable that it recited all the chants at the rituals performed at harvest time.
One year a neighbouring rangatira, Tamatera, sent a messenger to ask if the bird could recite the chants for his kumara-harvesting ceremony. Iwi-katere replied that Tamatera could borrow the tui, but that first it would have to officiate at his own ceremony. Tamatera regarded this as an insult and that night he sent the messenger back to steal the bird.
As the thief approached the house, the tui awoke and called to Iwi-katere, 'I'm being carried off, carried off by a thief, wake up!'
But Iwi-katere slept on, and the thief got away with the bird. Next morning Iwi-katere listened in vain for the accustomed sound of his tui's voice as it spoke to the people. He wept for his bird, and knowing that Tamatera had stolen it, he raised an army.
In the end the thief's people were defeated and migrated from Te Wairoa to Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay). Their descendants are still there and Iwi-katere's descendents are still at Te Wairoa.
The following myth has two variants, in one Tane is the protagonist, the other it is Rupe. It tells of how the tui came to the land of Aotearoa.
Rehua: A great rangatira in the sky
[...] the visitor is shocked when Rehua prepares a meal for him by untying his long hair and shaking into a vessel the birds that haven been feeding on the lice on his head. When these birds - they are tui - are cooked by his attendants, and palced before them, neither Rupe nor Tane will touch them, because they have fed on the lice that have fed on Rehua's tapu head. Tane, however, recieves permission from Rehua to take the birds down to the earth below, and he is told how to snare them. As well he takes the trees with thefruits on which the birds feed: and so we now haves birds and forests.
When the Tui sits in the Kowhai tree
and the sun tips the mountain tops with gold
when the Rata blooms in the forest glade,
and the hills glow with sunny tints untold.
I love to roam through bush and fern
and hear the Bellbird sing
and feel the touch of the wind on my face
while the joy in my heart does ring.
There are some who long for coral sands
and some for wind-swept plains
while others roam the ocean wide
then pine for home again.
But give to me the care-free life
by mountain, lake or shore
of the lovely land of the Long White Cloud,
Our Homeland Aotearoa.
Words A. G. Hall, 1920s. Music "Pretty Caroline", traditional
Iwi-katere - Owner of a wise bird
Tui were often kept in cages an taught words and songs. Long ago, at Te Wairoa on the east coast, a rangatira named Iwi-katere owned a pet tui, called Tane-miti-rangi, which he taught ritual chants of every kind. The bird became so knowledgeable that it recited all the chants at the rituals performed at harvest time.
One year a neighbouring rangatira, Tamatera, sent a messenger to ask if the bird could recite the chants for his kumara-harvesting ceremony. Iwi-katere replied that Tamatera could borrow the tui, but that first it would have to officiate at his own ceremony. Tamatera regarded this as an insult and that night he sent the messenger back to steal the bird.
As the thief approached the house, the tui awoke and called to Iwi-katere, 'I'm being carried off, carried off by a thief, wake up!'
But Iwi-katere slept on, and the thief got away with the bird. Next morning Iwi-katere listened in vain for the accustomed sound of his tui's voice as it spoke to the people. He wept for his bird, and knowing that Tamatera had stolen it, he raised an army.
In the end the thief's people were defeated and migrated from Te Wairoa to Heretaunga (Hawke's Bay). Their descendants are still there and Iwi-katere's descendents are still at Te Wairoa.
The following myth has two variants, in one Tane is the protagonist, the other it is Rupe. It tells of how the tui came to the land of Aotearoa.
Rehua: A great rangatira in the sky
[...] the visitor is shocked when Rehua prepares a meal for him by untying his long hair and shaking into a vessel the birds that haven been feeding on the lice on his head. When these birds - they are tui - are cooked by his attendants, and palced before them, neither Rupe nor Tane will touch them, because they have fed on the lice that have fed on Rehua's tapu head. Tane, however, recieves permission from Rehua to take the birds down to the earth below, and he is told how to snare them. As well he takes the trees with thefruits on which the birds feed: and so we now haves birds and forests.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Gallamorphinetastic
Landed a tre flip today - could say I gave birth to a new friend.
Cheer bout it.
Cheer bout it.
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