Tag: Lindsey Dawson

Out of America's TV factory comes the latest hot show, Pan Am, inspired by that long-ago time in aviation when flying was glamorous and people dressed up to get on a plane.

Auckland was a humming town in 1880s. Your ancestors flirted and laughed and gossiped when they weren't being outraged and appalled. Some things were just too "utterly utter", as they used to say back then.

Imagine the excitement in Auckland 126 years ago as Woodyear's Electric Circus unloaded piles of crates onto the wharf downtown and got ready to stage its latest spectacular.

There's absolutely no knowing what new trend is about to pop up in the world. Take yarn bombing, for instance. If, like me, you've never heard of it before, it's a subversive new form of knitting.

In my mum's day, neighbours used to swap recipes over the fence. Keen cooks are launching blogs, taking their own photos of their lovely dishes, and sharing their creations with the world. I love it.

Once it was only experts could create movies, radio shows and books. Now, with some help from the web, you too can be your own movie director, broadcaster and publisher.

Newspapers keep dying. It's like watching a part of civilization sputtering and going dark. Mostly it's happening in America. The latest was the 146-year-old 'Seattle Post-Intelligencer'. Before that, Denver's 'Rocky Mountain News' shut its doors.

I'm having such fun online with a cool tool you can find at www.animoto.com All you do is gather some pictures and brief video clips, add some text, choose a background theme, pick some music, arrange it all in the order you want, and send it to Animoto.

I've been delving back into the 1990s. An editor asked me to write a story about that decade and so I spent days ploughing back through pages of the mags I edited during those years

It's so interesting how time forges and mellows our characters. For evidence look no further than May 17's Herald on Sunday and the next day's Sunday Star Times. Paul Holmes writes for the first; Michael Laws for the other.