Producer. Ex-Saatchi & Saatchi, ex-Video Game Producer. Director Ignite Studios. Studied Entrepreneurship Acceleration @ Wharton, and Advertising & Marketing @ A.U.T.
Insights
Was really taken back by the creativity in this video of a supersized Ariana Grande flying through a creatively designed level in Fortnite. The merging of pop-culture and video-game culture. Here is the video: 1. The merging of two larger audiences to cross-promote products. 2. Game development and music video
Insights
I've been tracking the trend of the keyword 'metaverse' since social media business owner Mark Zuckerberg mentioned it in his company's investor call and when news outlets started promulgating the concept around 27 July 2020. Google Trends Due to Google Trends being a proportionally
Insights
News can be good or bad, but it is seldom neutral. I was interested how certain news agencies reported on a variety of topics, are they positive, neutral or negative?
Insights
As part of our shift to avert the Auckland water crisis, have taken two affirmative steps. 1. Installed water tanks. 2. Purchased the domain watercrisis.nz and started ideation on connection points/planning document.
Development
I attempted to code and design a tool where people could filter their news feed with speed. That was hard, I called it Vize.
Ventures
Native Zone is a digital place where I share kaupapa Māori stories native.zone [https://native.zone/] and a moon app that tells you what the moon is today app.native.zone [https://app.native.zone].
Production
Te Pūtahi is a 12 episode series that interviews' scientists and experts to discuss Māori dimensions in research. Te Pūtahi asks how the research can be useful for Māori communities.
Simple visualisation of the latest Roy Morgan poll [http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/8429-nz-national%20-voting-intention-may-2020-202006010651] . Perhaps strategically the National Party and New Zealand First Party missed the opportunity to strengthen their Māori engagement and missing out on voters who would have liked to have seen that representation. With many Māori
Production
Here is some sound design and music work - a house tune with dubstep flavour.
Insights
Really enjoyed building our garden end of March. Have a couple of time-lapse videos to share. We now eat carrots, spinach, bok-choy and save $300 to $600 per month.
Insights
Here are some photos I took during September and October. Had a quick visit to Mauna Kea, Hawai'i and shooting in Kaiteriteri, New Zealand.
Māori
Here's the history of how the Māori electorates were established. When the New Zealand Constitution Act was passed in 1852, it established the Parliamentary system. Those eligible to vote and to be voted for