Comedian Nic Sampson brings in some of his favourite stand-up. Including comedy from Angela Dravid, Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell & Kristen Wiig, and Paul F. Tompkins.
Check out Nic's show, Jewel Heist, at the NZ International Comedy Festival!
This week on The Green Desk, Bronwyn Wilde spoke to Dr Kēpa Morgan about mauri modelling - a framework for decision-making which measures sustainability trends. Unlike a purely economic view of sustainability, the model recognises four dimensions of wellbeing, environmental, cultural, social and economic. Kēpa first invented the mauri-o-meter in his 2008 thesis about municipal waste water management, but since then it has been applied throughout the country to a number of ecosystems, including the clean-up following the Rena oil spill. Bronwyn and Kēpa spoke about the model, how it compliments and even improves on western science, and why we value certain knowledge over others.
He began by shedding some light on the concept of "mauri".
A few tracks from artists from the Laneway 2025lineup, such as Charli xcx,Fcukers,Clairo, and Vera Ellen, and other upcoming gigs coming to Tāmaki Makaurau, such as Strawpeople, at the Hollywood Avondale on the 18th of October, and DARTZ, coming to Double Whammy on the 5th of December! And Wire Host, Castor, comes in for a quick chat about the League of Legends Finals? Whakarongo mai!
Labour Leader Andrew Little announced on Wednesday a $10 million investment towards Dunedin’s gaming industry if they’re elected this year. The fund will go towards creating a Chair of Computer Gaming at Otago University, setting up a gaming incubator with a motion capture studio, and provide funding to attract more people to the city, all with the aim of turning a $90 million dollar industry into a billion dollar one. 95bFM reporter Ben Goldson speaks to New Zealand Game Developers Association spokesperson James Everett about the funding.
Another group present at WOMAD this year was the team behind 4Phase games, who were speaking as a part of the OMV Steam Lab.
4Phase games are a new Ngāmotu/New Plymouth based game development team working on their very first title; a Maori futurist action adventure RPG to be released on consoles.
The mahi 4Phase games are doing is so awesome and fresh in the Aotearoa gaming sphere, so Liam had a chat with them over the weekend to learn more about their team and the game they’re developing.
Ōtautahi musician Lukas Mayo, known as pickle darling, joins Sofia on bFM for a chat about their new gameboy-esque project: pickle darling: the game .
In a pixelated green world materialised by artist Christiane Shortal, the game is set in the Aotearoa music universe where you play as pickle darling on their quest to retrieve their lost album... before their label drops them.
It's witty, nostalgic, and refreshingly fun. Designed for game-illiterates and enthusiasts alike, try pickle darling: the game yourself and experience the trials and tribulations of the creative journey behind an indie album release.
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