Walk the Rob 001
This may become a thing, or it may not...
I was walking while listening to Charles' 'Walk the Mic' (WTM) walking podcast—itself inspired by Rachel's 'Walk The Pod' (WTP) walking podcast—and recorded a short walking pod myself.
As 'Kiwi Rob' I occasionally contribute short thoughts to Rachel's WTP but this is a short "Walk the Rob" (WTR) about my evening walk. I only had my phone out to ID an aircraft flying over the park, and it wasn't what I thought...
As mentioned in WTR 001
Walk the Mic
Charles the Kiwi
Walk The Pod 'Yellow' Challenge Week
Rach sets a 'photograph a colour on your walk' weekly challenge and the Sunday mentioned in WTR 001 was the last (NZ Time) day of yellow week.
I wasn't thinking about that when I ordered lunch at Sfera. Tuna, this Tuna:
Tuna crudo | yellow chilli emulsion, pickled kohlrabi, baby capers...
I also learnt how few cars heading for the Auckland Harbour Bridge approach on a Sunday afternoon are yellow. Although photographing from a public path I was beginning to wonder if the Police Bridge Control opposite might investigate the red-haired dude standing there for ages waiting for one. There is no Grey, White, Black photo challenge week, would have been a lot quicker to photograph!
Then, like buses, two appear. Then an actual bus with yellow!
Photographing some unimaginative yellow no parking lines, then a man in a yellow jacket appears from behind the green building!
Yellow seen while Northcote Point wandering
After a paucity of yellow, for the rest of the walk it appeared all over the place. Wonder if any Northcote Point residents wondered why a red-haired man was standing in the middle of roundabout shrubbery...
Even The Bridgeway Theatre neon sign is yellow, and I hadn't noticed that! It's amazing how a different approach to looking at the world changes what you see.
More yellow seen while Northcote Point wandering
"The History Of Concrete" NZIFF Film
'The History of Concrete' was really good. It was part of our Film Festival but if shows up in your local cinema (general release, probably smaller 'arty' cinema, in Sept it seems) or on streaming is well worth a watch.
It's a documentary about making a documentary about concrete, that is far more than a documentary about concrete. It was about concrete, but more about people, concrete people, other people, and went to some really unexpected places.
Some funny, some sad, some even a bit horrifying, but all a fascinating look at things ordinary and extraordinary.
The frame is a still shown before the movie started, phone well away by the time it rolled
