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BUY NOW
Earlier this month, my monograph about New Zealand vaporwave artist Eyeliner’s album BUY NOW (2015), part of Bloomsbury Academic’s 33 1/3 Oceania series, was published.
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Star Flats of Lower Hutt
Star Flats are a public housing design used in New Zealand in the late 1950s and 1960s. The original designer was Neville Burren, an architect employed by the Ministry of Works under Frederick Newman. There were numerous examples built across the country, including 18 blocks in Lower Hutt.
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The Folk Culture of the Dispossessed
On May 1, 2024, I delivered a seminar at Victoria University of Wellington titled “Revisiting ‘The Folk Culture of the Dispossessed’.” A recording of the talk is now available to view online.
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Tracing digital footsteps
Recently I delivered the Stout Annual Lecture for 2023, drawing on research I’ve done this year on digital music and the Internet in New Zealand as JD Stout Fellow.
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RiverLink ghost houses
Change is coming to one of the oldest suburbs of Lower Hutt. RiverLink is a project which combines flood protection, transport upgrades, and inner-city development. The main locations are the suburb of Melling (south from Melling Bridge to the Ewen Bridge) and the CBD district on the opposite side of Hutt River/Te Awa Kairangi. The…
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Opahu Stream: Headwaters
For this final blog about the Opahu Stream/Black Creek of Lower Hutt, I trace its course upstream from the north end of Penrose Street towards its headwaters some kilometres away.
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Opahu Stream: Middle passage
In this second mini-travelogue through the elusive waterways of Lower Hutt, we follow the Opahu Stream/Black Creek upstream from Riddiford Garden.
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Opahu Stream: Lower reaches
The Hutt Delta is located on the Hutt River’s final meander before joining the sea in Wellington Harbour.
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Access
Something I’ve been meaning to do for some time (two years!) is alert interested readers to some new digital access links on the notunlikeatrumpet Publications page.
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Another glance
A few months back, I wrote a post about train punctuality reporting by Metlink, the public agency responsible for managing public transport in the Wellington region. Here is the sequel.
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