Appearances
Ants of New Zealand launched
Thursday 06 March 2008
Last
night LSD was on the other side of the microphone as
he launched Warwick Don's book, Ants of New
Zealand, at a function held
in the atrium of the Otago Museum. Surprinzingly,
this is the first book ever published on New
Zealand's representatives of this important animal
group. LSD chided Warwick, a rugby fanatic, for
seemingly making his collections at places around New
Zealand that coincided with the locations of rugby
grounds. He went on to describe the book as
representing a lifetime's work and, with a nod to
Grahame Sydney, Christian Barnard and Rudyard
Kipling, LSD praised Warwick Don for his book – which
he said could be regarded as a gift to the nation, a
true "stepping stone".
Talk Talk in the Can
Saturday 09 February 2008
LSD was
in Auckland yesterday for the taping of
Talk
Talk, an new arts
programme on TVNZ's digital channel, Channel 6. He
shares the billing for the show with singer and
activist Moana Maniapoto. She gave a sublime live
performance in the studio just before LSD was
interviewed by Finlay MacDonald. The series is being
produced by Third Party Productions under the
watchful gaze of longtime producer Colin Hogg, who
had previously made a short documentary on LSD
for The Book
Show.
Taping of the next episode of Talk Talk occurred at the Hobson Street studios of TVNZ immediately after LSD's interview was "in the can," and LSD was pleased to run into one of its guests, the poet Glenn Colquhoun: Glenn had been one of the judges who'd presented LSD with the 2002 NZ Children's Book of the Year Award.
Taping of the next episode of Talk Talk occurred at the Hobson Street studios of TVNZ immediately after LSD's interview was "in the can," and LSD was pleased to run into one of its guests, the poet Glenn Colquhoun: Glenn had been one of the judges who'd presented LSD with the 2002 NZ Children's Book of the Year Award.