Archive for the 'Local' Category
September 28 2010
Nice Catch Bro: All Blacks Amazing Fake Ball Skills
posted by Ana Samways at 11:02 amIn full promotional mode for the pending 2011 Rugby World Cup, players from the All Blacks are featured in a promotional video, faking their kicking and passing skills.
Similar to videos of stars like the one of Roger Federer hitting a ball off a guy’s head, it shows All Blacks Piri Weepu, Cory Jane and Rene Ranger pulling off a series of unlikely kicks, throws and catches… [see the clips after the jump]
September 22 2010
Maori Storm Trooper Helmet and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 9:51 pm
Art: Incredible Maori Storm Trooper Helmet made by Daniel Logan for the 501st TK Project — a charity event for the Make A Wish Foundation to create one of a kind Stormtrooper helmets. The original Star Wars stormtroopers were all made from Maori DNA anyway, eh bro?
More Choice Links after the jump…
September 16 2010
Lost in Translation and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 8:49 pm
Sign in Tonga: Anyone know what the Tongan translation says? More Choice Links after the jump…
September 02 2010
John Key in a Waterbed
posted by Ana Samways at 11:04 am
NZ On Screen has procured a gem of a clip from an early version of Close Up (1987) featuring a baby-faced 25-year-old ’senior forex trader’ with Deidre Barlow glasses who plays squash in teeny tiny stubbies. His name? John Key…
August 31 2010
Headline Lies and Other Choice links
posted by Ana Samways at 11:41 am
Calling bullshit on this Cancer scare: Spotted this at the supermarket…”Oh, no! Miss Universe 1983 has Cancer? How awful!” But a quick scan of the actual story from the NZ Woman’s Weekly reveals that the former Dancing with the Star winner Lorraine Downes hasn’t got the big C, but that she’s doing some charity work with children with cancer and building her public profile. Talk about crying wolf!…
[Choice Links after the jump...]