What happens when a graduate in Naval Architecture and a Fine Arts Graduate get married, and then in 1981 they cash in all their belongings for a yacht called Hornpipe and sail across the world with their two small sons on an open ended adventure? Well, if you’re the Trubridge family, the land and sea …
I wasn’t involved in the final few days of lights, camera, action, and so on the actual day I had the pleasure of being in the audience and watching the magic come alive. And it blew me away. Of course I was also simultaneously extremely relieved. This is the first TEDxAuckland event with this team, …
Booktrack melds together the two things that spark me up like a fire cracker: words and music. And at the beginning of this year when I heard that the prolific composer John Psathas had scored the music for Salmon Rushdie’s short story In the South, in that moment I knew the people behind Booktrack had …
The Last Ocean, directed by New Zealand film maker Peter Young, is a heart-wrenching documentary that has a deadline with the planet – and you. It’s a journey to the ravishing Ross Sea in Antarctica; home to penguins, whales, seals and the richest diversity of Southern Ocean fishes and animals many of which are found …
“When I was a kid I wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to fly like superman. I wanted to climb stuff like spider-man.” I meet Michelle Dickinson’s grin from across the table. She’s animated, just like a superhero. And I’m hanging on every word, just like a kid. “But then I grew up and …
Last year Architect Andrew Patterson’s firm Patterson Associates Ltd was named by the world’s most searched Architectural Journal; World Architecture News as one of five worldwide “set to influence global Architecture”, so how did that happen? He tells me he grew up with a lot of Māori influence, but that his breakthrough emerged when he …
Matthew Simmons is like a Peter Pan rocket scientist, except the only “formal” education he has is music composition. I didn’t know this when he came into my office last week and started firing questions at me. How long have you worked here for? What did you do before this? When I told him I …
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. These lines taken from the final verse of a poem by Robert Frost became a catalyst for Paul Wood to turn his life around. Shortly after being sentenced to prison for murder for …
I first discovered the world of TED last year on the 13th of August 2011, night of the full moon. I had gone on hiatus after seven years of producing music festivals, chasing budgets and making nice with fat cats, and I was burnt to the bone. I found myself living in a village in …
