I ordered a copy of this book Ryoji Ikeda – Continuum produced to coincide with the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, thankfully available in English and French as the book contains a lengthy and fascinating interview with…

      by Sharon Murdoch      

    mute the boston dynamics vid and hit play:     then hit play on this you may have to unmute it if youtube has ‘applied to all’ sync is on you        

          Pied stilts filmed by the Boulder Bank, Nelson      

                  Created using CITY ROADS      

      The road from Lyttleton to Sumner was destroyed in the Christchurch earthquake in 2011, and has only recently reopened!      

      I try to have a policy of not driving past a great photo without stopping… Sometimes this means doing a lot of U Turns, such as here on Port Underwood road…        

      lols      

    MORAL OF THIS RANT: You risk your life to drive during holiday periods in New Zealand.   Normally, I do not drive during Xmas holidays. Every year New Zealand holds some kind of horrific lottery with daily updates…

      Went for a drive last night to see the obsessive Xmas light displays, and asked the owner of this house about their power distribution… “81 multiboxes”        

      Awesome trip into Mesopotamia with my Dad today! Flew the drone between showers of rain…      

      Found some 1950s Meccano Magazines in a junk store in Murchison… No instructions but how hard can it be to build an Orrery?      

              Canon 5D3 with Zeiss ZE50 F1.4 (aka swimming in bokeh!) Was waiting on the tide to turn so I went for a drive up Takaka Hill today and into Caanan Downs… Incredibly beautiful…