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Jonathan King
Jonathan King
@jonathanking.bsky.social
I make films and comics in Wellington, New Zealand. BLACK SHEEPS out soon!
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UpThePunksNZ is the long-term archival project of John Lake, who has meticulously documented Te Whanganui-a-Tara's punk history from the late 1970s onwards. You can learn about Wellington punk bands, labels, zines and venues. Check out his new website! Mind blowing mahi!! upthepunks.co.nz
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Thrilled to hear the Wellington premiere went well. Auckland, come out Wednesday night to Reading Cinemas New Lynn for your first chance to discover the goopy fun of BLACK SHEEPS, with @jonathanking.bsky.social in attendance for Q&A! readingcinemas.co.nz/cinemas/Lynn...
Just got home from the Black Sheeps premiere at Terror-fi fest. It's so good! So funny and gory and silly. And I'm so proud of @jonathanking.bsky.social and @dillamonster.bsky.social . It just felt like lovely Welly horror community vibes and my face hurts from smiling.
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It's increasingly clear that the major threat of AI is not super intelligence but the poisoning of every community built around collaboration, communal labor or democratically negotiated standards. www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/u...
Our current government is corruptly captured by fossil fuel interests. There's no other explanation. #VoteGreen
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Film critic, author, and horror expert Alexandra Heller-Nicholas writes about taking her teenage son to see “The Only One."
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Just got home from the Black Sheeps premiere at Terror-fi fest. It's so good! So funny and gory and silly. And I'm so proud of @jonathanking.bsky.social and @dillamonster.bsky.social . It just felt like lovely Welly horror community vibes and my face hurts from smiling.
Excited (and nervous) to be sharing BLACK SHEEPS with our first NZ audiences tonight! Premiere screening, followed by actual paying customers for the opening of TERROR-FI Film Fest. We’re so proud of this bonkers film and can’t wait for people to see it! Opens NZ nationwide November 12.
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Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I’m on sabbatical but sneaked in today thespinoff.co.nz/culture/23-0...
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LETS GO! Two ticks Green 💚💚 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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thinking again about the sheer number of insiders who are going to claim things that "everyone knew" that there was no record of them mentioning
Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."
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They're baaaaaaaack! And now that they've premiered at Sitges, they're coming home! BLACK SHEEPS hits Aotearoa screens soon: * Terror-Fi festival hosts premieres in Wgtn, Chch, AK - info @ terrorfifest.com * Halloween weekend sneaks in cinemas across the motu * General release from 12 November
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Friction is so important to creative work that people *add* friction to allow themselves to do it. Just one example: meter, in poetry. You create a framework that restricts you, that limits you, in order to give your thoughts a scaffold within which to build.
the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality
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New Study Finds Cavemen Had Trouble Sticking To Paleo Diet Without Frozen Meal Kits https://theonion.com/new-study-finds-cavemen-had-trouble-sticking-to-paleo-d-1851267498/
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Almost as if they were intentionally given an impossible task, and the government openly breached the Bill of Rights in order to suppress voter turn out This is coup shit, and media REALLY should have taken a MUCH stronger, consistent line on what the National coalition has done here
The latest statistics have just been released by the commission as the enrolment deadline nears.
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I'm thrilled to be able to talk about my memoir Night, Ma with Kim Hill, next Saturday the 24 October, Nelson. After breaking my back in early September I had to cancel all this years appearances. 😢 I hung on to this one gig because it was close to home, and seemed far enough off.
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Wowee! Congratulations Pip @pipadam.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
Congratulations to pip adam @pipadam.bsky.social and our friends at @coffeehousepress.bsky.social for winning the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for pip's novel Audition! We are thrilled to announce that Dorothy will be publishing Pip’s next novel, kluge, in the Fall of 2027!