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NZ road trip videos

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After a break from the computer I have been busy uploading short videos of my autumn 2016 road trip up to 90-mile beach - along the way I beachcombed for jandals and interesting floatsam and jetsam for my environmental artworks. See my youtube channel for these videos (and more!): www.youtube.com/user/MartinAdlington

pheasant road-kill

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On my Far North road trip: just out of Waipapakauri on 90 Mile Beach I found a recently killed pheasant by the side of the road. Back at camp Te Araroa tramper Tyler shared some preparation techniques, then a couple of days later at Ahirapa camp Grahame helped me eat my find. See the video at: https://youtu.be/R7h72JOTnEo

I find some old photographic slides

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My Far North Road Trip - in a Kaikohe junk shop I came across a box of old colour slides from the 1970’s. I find discarded social history of this sort fascinating - here are highlights of someone’s life, carefully, and probably proudly, recorded and annotated....then under different circumstances simply junked. Thanks to www.freesfx.co.nz for the soundtrack.... See the video:   https://youtu.be/Ip44pln-Q3g

industrial devastation

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Visiting old, abandoned industrial sites is a rare pleasure. On my Far North road- On Sunday of Labour Day with no-one around I was able to explore the site quite thoroughly.... See the video:   https://youtu.be/hY-rdxZjzaA   trip I came across a burnt-out wood-mill in Kaitaia opposite the cemetery.

road kill: found and shared

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Currently I an on a road trip in the Far North of New Zealand. http://cannibals-and-colonials.blogspot.co.nz/ Although I have seen several instances of road-kill on this trip, they have so far been either too mangled, too old, or too large (a turkey and a goose) to salvage. However, just outside of Tauranga Bay I came across a fresh, manageable rabbit. As you can see the eye is still clear. I wrapped the body in newspaper, and later skinned and gutted it at Whangaroa, then hung it in the van for 2 days - it was so fresh it attracted no flies! At Taipa I met some locals who invited me to stay the night on their property, in return I shared my find with them - cooked in a can of tomatoes, with diced pumpkin and carrot, some ginger, and the Promite and beef stock I carry for making gravy. See the video:    https://youtu.be/H_ZHxwygeeU

road trip to the far north

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Tomorrow I leave for points north in my camper van: Matakohe, Keri Keri (to the Men's Shed), Coopers Beach, Kaitaia (another Men's Shed), Hokianga Harbour, Rawene, Kauri forest, Waipu. Follow my blog on this trip: http://cannibals-and-colonials.blogspot.co.nz/ This blog will cover my beachcombing activities as well as look at issues relating to social history, local flora and fauna, and geology. the musket wars

recycling manifesto

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Some time ago I was invited to be a judge at the "Trash to Fashion" show on Waikeke Island. At the symposium before the show I gave a talk entitled: “FROM BARBIE TO BUDDHA or PARADISE REGAINED - HOW RECYCLED ART CAN SAVE THE WORLD”  Read the full text at: http://www.craftplus.blogspot.co.nz/  I will print this text out and make copies available at the assemblage exhibition I am participating in at the Depot Community Art Gallery in March 2016. See my blog on this show: http://trashnart.blogspot.co.nz/