Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

New Zealand holiday weather in four acts.

Love this image

I’ve been thinking about this a lot for the last couple of days. Makes a lot of sense in a horrible and terrifying way.

Port Ligar, Marlborough Sounds, Christmas 2025.

“His goal is to create images with depth and natural realism…” 🧐

Tramping the Paparoa Range

The landscape of rare plants.

Always my number 1. Karure / Kakaruia / Black Robin. Would love to see it as Bird of the Year. #boty

The cliché house (by @KarlreMarks)

Just like a real life Michael Parekōwhai work.

Bundanon Art Museum & Bridge, Kerstin Thompson Architects, 2021

Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Art Centre, ‘Riversdale’ , West Cambewarra, New South Wales : 1996-99 Glenn Murcutt

Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre, Te Urewera, John Scott 1970-76. Demolished nine years ago today. Great to have some of these images included in Hamish Coney’s new book A Potent Way of Talking: Colin McCahon and the Urewera Triptych.

For those unfamiliar with the artist, composer, and choreographer Meredith Monk, a new documentary provides a vibrant mosaic of her life and work, honoring her prolific output and celebrating her singular vision.

The landscape of rare plants. Nothing if not surprising.

This is wonderful.

Notes from Otago.

One of my favourite train trips. Beautiful scenery. I remember going through the Bulgarian / Turkish border during a lightning storm. Though I did get put in a carriage with two Australians who earlier, upon realising they were on a wrong train, jumped off and were quite badly injured. Good times

Occasionally I come across an article in the foreign press that’s strikes me as so important that I want to share it with you. The following was originally written by an Israeli professor of law named Orit Kamir. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the

The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90

i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Some new images from my ongoing project looking the landscapes of rare New Zealand plants.

Stuart House, John Scott 1977-1979. An immaculate home in suburban Napier, NZ.

Recent obsessions II

Recent obsessions.

Footage captured from a passenger plane over Dubai shows Iran’s ballistic missiles being launched toward Israel.

Just over four months of Trump. America in upheaval. The global economy overturned. The Middle East burning down.

"I’ve looked at [the photos] multiple times today — I’ve been proud, I’ve been upset, I’ve been startled. Seeing our work repurposed in a moment of collective action was humbling and powerful," RIOS co-CEO Andy Lantz told @dianabudds.bsky.social

It’s tough out there. Architects suffer worst slump in 50 years newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/10/a...

One of my all time favourite places I’ve shot. Recently published by Living Corriere in Italy.

One of great South Island architects and one of his best buildings. It still amazes me how worked up people get about Brutalism.

It must be so sad to be Mike Hosking. This is an amazing country, but he's missing so much of what makes it so great because he's shit-scared of facing up to the past. He knows enough about it to know he doesn't want to know any more.

Andor: 29 brilliant and *very* minor characters, ranked. A THREAD I'm not a Star Wars fanboy at all. I vaguely watched the films and forgot them. But I happened on Andor S1 and loved it - not least because of its conveyor belt of amazing British (and in S2 French) character actors in tiny roles

The house of the future, according to the Ladybird Book of Homes from 1975

Israeli government: repeatedly promises genocide for the last 19 months Israeli military: kills at least 53,000 people, mostly civilians; demolishes most buildings in Gaza, bombs hospitals, makes 2m people refugees, does not allow food in for 75 days Reach your own conclusions

There will be a lot of euphemisms about "voluntary migration" and "humanitarian zones" and whatnot, but this is ultimately a plan for ethnic cleansing www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

America is so fucked

Notes from the South.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

This is high art

no idea who made this but it’s genius

Notes from home.

p.s. Since everyone's talking about reading the classics or whether we should, there's was an innovative project in the 1980s. Young artist/teacher Tim Rollins would read the books aloud to "at risk" South Bronx kids, who drew while listening, and then they made more art together.

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

This is what working with plant nerds looks like.

I think this is very true in NZ too.