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About Me

Kia ora...and welcome. Black Magazine is published quarterly from New Zealand, Aotearoa. Hard copies can be bought in NZ, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, Canada and in the US. Issue 7 and 8 of Black Magazine is available digitally at www.zinio.co.nz.People ask why we are called Black Magazine. Our thinking is simple; Black is the colour of New Zealand and the colour of fashion. It is the colour of our two cats Oscar and Katherine. The beach at Muriwai, our home in West Auckland has Black sand. The key New Zealanders behind Black Magazine are Maori, Chinese Samoan, English, Russian, Irish, French Croatian, Thai, Jamaican, Lithuanian and Scottish New Zealanders. Black Magazine's core group of creative contributors and partners represent whakapapa or lineage from a further 37 nations around the world. Our magazine has no cultural boundaries but is bound to culture.To all contributors to date a heartfelt thank you.Issue 8 of Black Magazine is on sale nationwide in New Zealand and Australia now. Further afield, shortly...Thanks for being our My Space friends.SUBMISSIONS: To all of our photographer, fashion editor, make-up artist and designer friends we DON'T take submissions so we are honestly sorry that we haven't been able to get back to you. We simply can't respond to you all. Keep it up anyway and have a good day. Love Black. MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Fashion, photography, the arts, music, film, the written word, New Zealand, interior design, gardening, architecture, skin and beauty, courage, creativity, individuality, historical perspectives, climate, graphic design and typography, spelling, sunsets, deep sea fishing, explosions, lash care, fecundity, backdrops, mag wheels, kittens, exposure, one voice, taonga, pumps, SNCC, Parihaka, sustainability in fashion, pogo sticks, yellow buds, very tall buildings, letter writing [the lost art], gladioli, gold leaf, freedom riders, pretty tea cups, lapping water, pohutakawa, latin, Vans, old skool everything, poetic lyricism, poetic justice, Jaz Coleman [mad bastard], office sex, people who die in the making of a bridge, escargot, Stokely Charmichael, Che Guevara, Yothu Yindi, kilts [cold but tuff], umbrage, a long pusilanimous nose, sand, the little black dress, haggis, latitudinarians, French wine [red], the Dalai Llama, Samoa, wetas, Planet Magazine, golf [average at it], civil rights, sculpture, herbs, manuka, ELVs, bodyline, truth and mercy, paean, stout, disco [early eighties, black], Katherine Mansfield, Maata Mahupuku, elbow grease, tents at Matai Bay, dolphins, moiety, www,NZ Edge.com, Cha Cha [NZ's seminal fashion magazine], Cape Reinga, Awon Thoroughbreds, Kasper and Wood, Frida Khalo, Hero, Oscar from Sesame Street, the small of a woman's back, a man's hands, Lee Cooper, Choppers, Russell Brown, dreamtime [Australia], Holden Statesman 1970's, Close To Home, traffic lights [the ice block], Rewi's Last Stand, George Nepia, Sir Dove Myer Robinson, fritters, Soweto, Mt Albert Grammar School, sky-diving on a motorbike, Ghandi, KIng Dick Seddon, lenity, Tui, lost children, the maelstrom of life, Hong Kong, livery, halcyon birds, the confluence of life, strewth mate, black this, black that...the list goes on ......

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people - fashion people, arts people, photographers, musicians, writers. We like honest people and real people - celebrities are not our thing. We celebrate character and difference, appreciate style, humour and a nice pinot.

Music:

Ten Guitars [NZ National Anthem], Prince Tui Teka, The Ting Tings, Sharon Jones, Broken Social Scene, Masters At Work, Larry Levan, Pete Shelley, Roy Davis Jnr, The Gordons, Beta Band, Sonny Liston Smith, Johnny Cash, Fetus Productions, Sleeping States, Jimmy Cliff, The Avalanches, Flaming Lips, JayDee, Otara Millionaires Club, Kevin Yost, Velvet Underground, Louis XIV, The Mekons, Miguel Migs, Primal Scream, Belle & Sebastian, Bob James, Sergio Mendes, The Arcade Fire, Jill Scott, Minnie Ripperton, The Phoenix Foundation, Ennio Morricone, Vincent Montana Orchestra, Naked Music NYC, Split Enz, Gwen McRae, Dimmer, Nights Of Vinyl, Serge Gainsbourg, Bobby Womack, JayDee, Curtis Mayfield, John Cale, Colder, Caesars, DJ Sunderland, Dimlite, David Bendeth, CSNY, Django Reinhardt, Doves, DJ Shadow, Coldcut, MFSB, The Crusaders, Captain Beefheart, Hope Sandoval, Pere Ubu, Wire, Brian Eno, Brand New Heavies, Kora, Bent, Gary Numan, The Decemberists, G Love and Special Sauce, Flaming Lips, Gil Scott Heron, Arlo Guthrie, Iron and Wine, Jeff Buckley, Bohannon, Goldfrapp, Mazzy Starr, Glen Campbell, Nick Cave, Fat Freddy's Drop, Moodyman, R.L.Burnside, Pluto, Roy Ayers, Sabres Of Paradise, SJD, Roxy Music, Santana, Prince/Symbol guy, Lamont Dozier, Siousxie & The Banshees, Substax, The Shins, Tom Petty, Lambchop, Ian Pooley, Steve Silk Hurley, Jah Wobble, Finlay Quaye, 51 Days, Sade, Mantronix, Zero 7, Frankie Knuckles, Joe Smooth, The Wasp Factory, The Ruby Suns, Rose Royce, Hunters and Collectors, Syd Barrett, Brian Eno, Elvis, The Armed Gang, Shayne Fucking Carter, Sly and The Family Stone, The Notwist, Crown Heights Affair, The Clean, Hank Williams, Golden Harvest, Elliot Smith, Diana Brown and Barrie K Sharp, Depeche Mode, Earth, Wind and Fire, Underworld, Gang Of Four, Cerrone, The Skeptics, Birds Nest Roys, John Martyn, Nina Simone, Miguel Migs, Neon Heights, Masters At Work, Brad, The Smiths, The Clash, The Eels, Canned Heat, Marvin Gaye, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Romeo Void, The Farm, Robot Monkey Orchestra, Odyssey, Aquanote, Phantom Planet, The Birthday Party, Ella Fitzgerald, Beck, Katmandu, Happy Mondays, Datarock, Slave feat. Steve Arrington, Depth Charge, Heavy D and The Boyz, Lakeside, Joe Bataan, Everything But The Girl, Rebel MC, Fresh & Low, everything on; LOOP Recordings, Super Furry Animals, Flying Nun, Blue Note, Glasgow Underground. Jens Lekman, Pinback, Midlake, Jungle Brothers, Kevin Yost, Dam Native, Wire, A Million Sons, Vanity 6, Magik Johnson, Beirut,Love International, The Fall, Brass Construction, Ronnie Jordan, The National, Rod, Cameo, Louis XIV, Led Zeppelin, Oddysey, Bad Company, The Chalmers Brothers, Hello Sailor, Decortica, Finlay Quaye, The Bad Seeds, The System, East West Connection, Eric B and Rakim, Larry Heard, 7A3, Frankie Knuckles, Digable Planets, Staritjacket Fits, Freeez, JPSE, The Skeptics, Candi Staton, Lightning Seeds, Shakedown, CJ Mackintosh, Primal Scream, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Beck, David Kilgour, Sly and the Family Stone, Idris Muhammed, Harry Nilsson, Buzzcocks, Womack & Womack, The Sabres Of Paradise, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Kate Bush, Risco Connection, Ministry, our aunties and uncles and a couple of cuzzys

Movies:

The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Trouble Everyday, No More Heroes, The Harder They Come, Rockers, The Squid & The Whale, Ngati, Citizen Kane, Whalerider, Repulsion, World's Fastest Indian, Psycho, The Godfather, Memento, Good Fellas, Apocalypse Now, The Third Man, Blow Up, A Clockwork Orange, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Apartment, Ran, The Green Mile, Nosferatu, The Grapes Of Wrath, Trainspotting, Walk The Line, Rosemary's baby, Brazil, A Streetcar Named Desire and many, many more......

Television:

The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Shameless, Flight Of The Conchords, Extras, Sunrise, Sunday Theatre, Dalziel & Pascoe, Rialto Channel, Documentary Channel

Books:

Katherine Mansfield, Maata Mahupuku, Kelly Ana Morey

Heroes:

All our Mums.....

My Blog

BLACK ISSUE 8 ON SALE in NZ

Black 8 is now on sale nationwide in NZ right now. It will take a while to get around the rest of the world UNLESS you want to buy the digital version from www.zinio.com or www.zinio.co.nz. Issue 8 wi...
Posted by Black Magazine on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:39:00 PST

Black Mag Issue 7 available online NOW!

BUY BLACK NOW! Right now! Our first digital version is now available online through Zinio. Simply go to www.zinio.co.nz, register as a Zinio member - it's free and takes about 2 mins - download the f...
Posted by Black Magazine on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:28:00 PST

A Little Kat’s Diary

Today was full on. I woke up at six and pranced around a bit. Where am I? Where's my food? Where is that Tui singing from? Then the alarm went off. I found out later that it was me that set it off, as...
Posted by Black Magazine on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:37:00 PST

Black Hearts September

♥Air NZ Fashion Week 2006 highlights - The old guard rocked it - Kate Sylvester, Zambesi, Nom D take a bow. Huffer moved into the big time and Lonely Hearts, Stolen Girlfriends and Jaeha arrive...
Posted by Black Magazine on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:04:00 PST

BLACK ISSUE 6....

...is printed! Copies will be on sale nationwide here in NZ next Thursday, Sept 20 and in Australia early October. We think it is our best issue yet [but we always think that] and at 220 pages it is t...
Posted by Black Magazine on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:47:00 PST

Black Hearts August

♥Matt Langley, Dunedin songsmith belts out a little beauty debut EP Lost Companions - sing it back!♥Stores, stores, stores - Federation open a new store downtown and not to be outdone Mu...
Posted by Black Magazine on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:21:00 PST

Black Hearts July

Some things we love this month:♣SJD - Songs From A Dictaphone - our favourite NZ minstrel is back with a new album and its a little pearler. Sean you are a legend!♣The Sopranos final seaso...
Posted by Black Magazine on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:24:00 PST

BLACK ISSUE 5

Issue 5 has been on sale in NZ for the past week or so. It's on it's way to Aussie next week so should be on sale a week or two after that. US READERS! GOOD NEWS, this issue of Black, Issue 5 will be ...
Posted by Black Magazine on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:07:00 PST

Black Hearts May

We Heart:♥Age Pryor - Shanks Pony - this debut by Wellington music maestro Age is a see-saw affar but when it peaks on songs like Summer, The Condition and Shouldn't I Know it soars...real bewd...
Posted by Black Magazine on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:58:00 PST

BLACK ISSUE 4 GOES GLOBAL!

Well sort of....BLACK Issue 4 will soon be available in Chapters Indigo stores across Canada. Limited copies will also be available in Indonesia, Taiwan, Korea and wait for it...Brazil. We are also cl...
Posted by Black Magazine on Wed, 30 May 2007 09:04:00 PST