by JAK | Oct 25, 2010 | culture, music
There are many old jokes about music but in my family the one I liked was how “Johnny likes both kinds of music – country & Western. ” So the good news growing up in my house was that we were all drenched in music – the bad news is that...
by JAK | Sep 11, 2010 | culture, industry futures, music, TEDx
This video clip is from Plum Jungle: Pete Longworth (photography), Michael K. Chin (music), Christopher Baron (film). @PlumJungle are coming across to Auckland and presenting at TEDxAuckland on 26th of Sept. I’m looking forward to this. Music, film, photography,...
by JAK | Jul 18, 2008 | culture, music, TED
When I was 11, I had just the most fantastic music teacher. For the next 7 years we worked on all types of music together, one on one, in group classes, in a wind symphonia and also in the school orchestra. Later on we did music tours with a 70 piece orchestra made...
by JAK | Jan 17, 2008 | culture, music, swimming
January is usually one long blaze of Summer sunshine and strawberries and as much swimming as can be managed. Holidays are probably the best time of the year physically for many of us as we make the most of daylight saving and family. And then we try to tune back into...
by JAK | Jan 1, 2008 | big ideas, culture, music
The tradition at this time of the year is to make some kind of predictions. My thesis is that we already know enough about our own history to not only make predictions but to set directions and see them come true. The thing is that most of the time we are not entirely...
by JAK | Sep 9, 2007 | culture, industry futures, music, this blog
I was at an recent event where (in passing) a presenter recounted her experiences at various TV conferences along these lines. She told us that many of the industry attendees were still asking variations of “Help the Internet is coming…what do we...
