Lest this be the Last of Us.

I love that gaming is getting more ad time. 

The individuals involved in gaming are simply the most impressive creative delights that deserve the artistic right to be leading a great TVC. 

This 1 minute Sony moment was an Amsterdam creation and a well deserved Best Ad of the week.

That, I will drink to.

Please tell me that 1) you are not a pretentious intellectual that doesn't understand why people watch t.v; 2) you are not a condescending elder who can't find the time to watch t.v and 3) you indulge in the absolute pleasure of watching TV One on Tuesday nights at 8:30.

Kevin and Jamie. New Zealand. First Crossings.

Do you ever come across those moments where you realise your surroundings aren't living up to your inspirations. 

I know we can't expect every moment of the day to be that of Jaime and Kevin's surrounding, but I refuse to stick around in routine moments of dullness. There is too much brilliance in the world to get accustomed to being content with the null.

What frustrates me is when you realise the people who can make things happen, aren't making things happen. 

People say, if you want things to happen, make them happen. 

But it just seems, in my day-to-day, my attempt in making things happen parallel too well to something like this...

I've decided not to rely on those who say they can make things happen. 

I'm going to forever and foremost make things happen myself. And one day I will make things happen for other people. 

That, I will drink to.

One in One.

I'm completely in-complacent with most things at the moment. I'm listening to Lorde's Tennis Court on repeat in a some what nonchalant hypnotic way. I'm craving Summer where everything and everyone in it have priorities and topics that are only ones that dwell on how lucky they are in the lives they are in. Right now little is ringing the usual bells and it's starting to frustrate me on a new level. And because of this I'm completely and utterly determined to go back to being inspired and content in my own doing. 

BECAUSE WE LOVE THIS CITY, WE WANT IT TO

BE BETTER. BECAUSE THE BEST SCHOOLS AREN’T

GOOD ENOUGH AND THE WORST ONES NEED

A REVOLUTION. BECAUSE THE POLITICIANS

GET IT WRONG AND SO DO THE ACADEMICS

AND THE LAWYERS AND THE COPS AND THE

ARTISTS AND THE BANKS. NOT ALWAYS, BUT

TOO OFTEN, SO THINGS NEED TO BE SAID.

EXPOSED. ARGUED. LAUGHED AT. BECAUSE

THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD THINGS TO EAT,

AND WEAR, AND SEE AND HEARAND BE A PART

OF (AND SOMETIMES THEY’RE NOT AS GOOD

AS THEY SHOULD BE EITHER, WHICH ALSO

NEEDS TO BE SAID). BECAUSE WE CHERISH

SO MANY OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY, AND

WE WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THEM AND SHOW

THEM TO YOU. 

Finally, CAANZ.

Thank you CAANZ. Couldn't have put it better myself.

A theory for Want.

This weekend I had a well overdue catch up with a friend who, whilst telling me about her regretful drunken antics (of which I continuously tell her to claim) also told me about a new revelation she has had in terms of life goals. 

Whilst neither her or I are ones to sit down and write a life plan with coordinated colored sharpies, we are however, ones to discuss (pointless or not) life and particularly our career dreams.

She has a theory. One that theorizes the success of wants. 

A want cannot be achieved if you do not state you want this want. Both of us have got to where we are by wanting things, doing what we have to do get that want, and then getting there. But what if you were to never state that want. If you say, put it into a category of unrealistic or not likely, then naturally of course that want would never eventuate to anything. 

But what if you wanted everything you wanted to want. The likelihood of achieving at least half of those wants is high. Merely because you put it out there and said you want it. 

Ergo, write a list. A list of wants. Of anything, however realistic or likely. Surely wanting so much can only eventuate to success. Even if it's for only one of those wants. Better than none. And better than only achieving those obvious goals like a promotion at work. There are so many better wants out there. 

1. Have a blog go viral
2. Feature in a film on the big screen
3. Read a new book every month
4. Go to a new country every year.
5. Create my own magazine
6. Become the youngest Managing Director in New Zealand
7. Paint my front door red
8. Live by myself
9. Own a VW
10. Have a coffee with Claudia Batten
11. Work on a Bruton Stroube Studio set
12. Get my full license
13. Go to Bali with my best friends
14. Meet George Lois
15. Walk through Vietnam
16. Publish a book
17. Be awarded in the Companion of the Order of New Zealand (CNZM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to Arts Governance and Philanthropy (just to be sepcific...) 
18. Make a childrens clothing line
19. Make a childrens book
20. Win over $20 from a scratchie
21. Open my own cafe
22. Use a briefcase
23. Have an interview with Rory Sutherland
24. See every film from the 2013 NZ International Film Festival
25. To be continued...