Maniototo Cartography
March 4 2025 · central-otago film-photography
The Maniototo
The Maniototo is a region made of plains and mountains in the South Island of New Zealand. As names go, through to the …
Hypernormalised Language
February 8 2025 · philosophy books
Normalised language is loose convention across prose, narrative form, formality, and conciseness in text we write. Academic papers, professional writing, advertising, group chats, and workplace chats all have different forms of normalisation. Texts can also be normalised by the way they look – …
Hawkdun Sunset
Foot of the St Bathans Range.
It’s the middle of summer and the golden tussock has overtaken its shorter agricultural cousin. Back …
…St Bathans - 1877
January 17 2025 · landscape-photography central-otago
St Bathans. 1877
St Bathans is a small town in the Maniototo with a history of gold mining. On a recent trip there I was reading a …