by frog
The Green Party’s national office is on the corner of Courtenay Place and Cambridge Terrace, so when Monsieur Jackson has his film premieres we get ringside seats.
Your friendly frog is therefore blogging with the King Kong red carpet business unfolding beneath. Not so much a corridor of power as an avenue of enthusiasm.
While Miramar is the kitchen, the Embassy intersection is the front porch of Wellywood. But, as regular residents of these parts, feelings in this office were mixed when Weta’s Tripod landed outside their window a few weeks back. Some round here didn’t like having such a mechanistic thing in their line of sight, but I suspect they are from the wannabe Ent wing of the party. Personally, I reckon anything that mucks about with the psychogeography of the cityscape is a good thing. If everyday life had more texture maybe the masses wouldn’t feel so inclined towards celebrity worship.
Having made that off-hand elitist comment, I must say that my inate dubiousness about the cult of celebrity is in this case weighed against the general Buy Kiwi-Made-ness of this whole delightful phenomenom. IMHO, it’s time the world tried to live up to New Zealand standards, rather than vice versa 
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Published in Media | Society & Culture by frog on Wed, December 14th, 2005
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
what am I supposed to be looking at in the weta’s tripod link above? Couldn’t you have pointed the GP office digital camera out the window and taken a photo of it?
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only frog could get Ents and psychogeography in the same post!! Never mind Weta….
rock on with the wikipedia postings, gotta be good to that
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Woo!! only frog could understand what’s written in the post and not some one seeking a gorilla tour
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nice writing though
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