Hoons pour oil on city streets
Treacherous traffic conditions had Hamilton police lining Tristram Street outside Wintec on Wednesday afternoon to slow traffic after young men...
An insight into the mind of an artist
Media arts students and other festival goers were treated to an insight into the mind of an artist and advice...
Panel discuss nature of film creation
Creativity, concepts and a love of film were among the many things discussed by the Hamilton film forum on Friday....
JJ Fong – From TV to the laptop
With Go Girls season five wrapped up and season six off the cards, actress JJ Fong is focusing on Flat3,...
Kiwi Flyer director Tony Simpson dishes the dirt at Spark
Kiwi film director Tony Simpson is living the dream – if throwing fake poo on actors is the dream, that...
Style icon Zara Mirkin says moving overseas saved her career
A spur-of-the-moment decision to fly to New York proved a turning point in NZ fashion stylist Zara Mirkin's career. Zara...
The magician at Spark
A film 15 years in the making finally got off the cutting room floor for the Spark festival this week....
Severe earthquakes rattle the country
A severe 6.2 magnitude earthquake of an 8km depth has shaken central New Zealand today, followed by numerous large aftershocks....
Sound the Ocean’s Nick Kraenzlin visits Spark
NICK AND NIC: Nick Kraenzlin (let) speaking with Nic Manders on how they recorded songs for Sound the Ocean's new...
Musician Luke Thompson tells the realities of the music industry
Success story: Wintec graduate Luke Thompson Musician Luke Thompson went from tour to talk this week, taking part in a...
Lecturer launches 50th issue of zine
In a world of easily published online blogs one man is still cutting and pasting images on to paper. On...
Spark week Interference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksu732quX80 Spark’s PechaKucha event came to a close with a musical interference last night in Wintec’s Atrium. INTERFERENCE: Xiang Li,...
Councillor tackles synthetic cannabis
Hamilton City Council is looking to revise its policy around synthetic drugs in the city - including a name and...
Hamilton singer selected for global singing competition finals
The last thing Whitney Maynard expected to hear at work was that she would be flying to SINGING SUCCESS: Maynard's(right)...
Driving Melbourne’s fashion week media
Writing editorial, hundreds of blurbs, "about me" pages, managing social media and running a blog is all in a day's...
Journalist Julian Wilcox tells his story
Julian Wilcox is on a life mission to develop Maori broadcast and journalism. Wilcox, known for his front-of-camera role as...
Magazine editor says internships rule
In 2007 Michelle Coursey graduated from Wintec with a Diploma of Journalism and high hopes of a career in the magazine...
Doco maker Safran gives Hamilton crowd insight into work
Around 230 people gathered in Hamilton yesterday to watch video clips of an Australian man being crucified and making out...
How to make a magazine
FAMOUS: Nadia Saccardo surrounded by Smith Journal fans. Photo: Kelsey Wilkie A petite woman, wearing high-waisted jeans, geek chic glasses...
Strange tale brings success for Spanish photographer
http://youtu.be/nFoVqNjYiw8 A project born out of a search for the craziest experiments in history has turned out to be a...
Plunket fields calls after babies react to milk formula switch
Parents reeling from the infant formula botulism scare face a new problem as infants become ill from switching to unfamiliar...
New Zealand’s first 360 degree film to screen at Spark Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7iNgnyanC4 A new kind of interactive movie experience will have viewers wishing they had eyes in the back of their...
Cycling enthusiast takes to water
It was Easter weekend 2011 and Hamilton man Greg Gibb was at Goose Bay in Kaikoura. The scenic coastal drive...
Management students gain hands-on experience
Grace Ng has got a foot on the corporate ladder before even graduating - she's one of 80 interns taking...