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MAORI POP CLASSIC – POI E by THE PATEA MAORI CLUB

Cute is the Patea Maori Club singing and swinging the Maori poi via Taranaki.

Poi E is one of those classic Kiwi songs that always brings a smile, when you watch it.

The song is like a gift of authentic culture, uniquely created in Aotearoa New Zealand and loved by the people of Hawaii, USA, that keeps on giving.

Enjoy. Let’s go Maoris! :)

Maori – Kiwi Star Power tribute as Hollywood Art Today – Russell Crowe‘s Hollywood star, Walk of Fame, Hollywood California USA. Photographed by Horiwood.Com.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.13.11~

 

WE ARE FAST CLIMBING TO THE 2.95 MILLION MILESTONE IN HOLLYWOOD

Maori proverb – Whaia te iti kahurangi ki te tuohu koe me he maunga teitei. Search for great mountains. If one has to bow, let it be to a lofty mountain –Rotorua Boys High School motto.

According to my calculations via the Jewish calendar, we are fast approaching the 2.95 million milestone on Horiwood.Com.

Okay, I was joking about the Jewish calendar calculations, but blog stat calculations reveal that at midnight tonight Hollywood’s first website created by a Maori-Kiwi, will hit the 2.95 million benchmark.

We’ve got their together – thanks for your loyalty as a blog audience and making it happen. Kia Ora! :)

[Photography credit - Climbers at Syme Hut, Fanthams Peak, and Alpenglow at Dawn on Mt Taranaki, Taranaki, Te Ika a Maui - North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand - aerial by David Wall]

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.9.11~

 

PURE WATER ROYALTIES FOR ALL CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

True fact: The Maori word for spirit is wairua. It means “two waters.” Water distribution is a spiritually humane act, because it takes anyone with spirit to ensure that people who need it, can have life each hour of the day. Our spirits need to act with goodness so water can happen for 1 billion people. Most of these people are in India and Africa. I wonder if China can help as water has so much significance as a metaphor for spirit in China. When I China is already helping share water.

Exciting News: For only $10 invested at Charity Water, one person in the world can have fresh clean drinking water, for a lifetime – when currently 1 billion people don’t have access to it yet. Isn’t that cool information?

It’s the end of the year in Hollywood. Normally I do the list of The 50 People Who Were Voted Most Hottest in Hollywood, as a really good compare and contrast democratic exercise in who is actually hot –vs, other media outlets lists. It can be quite surprisingly the results. On this website, votes are voted daily. The results always provide a study. For example Lady Gaga was no.1 last year, before she’d even appeared on Oprah’s Show.

This year though I thought instead of glorifying Hollywood’s Top 50 list, a priority first, was to link the list of stars, celebrities, hot Hollywood topics in this blogs category list with the topic of H2O. Sometimes we forget that the difference between a ‘star’ and an unknown third world person – is simply basics of humanity or human rights too, like clean drinking water being one–and equal access to it. So, before that list happens, let’s work the existing list already created of people and stars on this blog, who all can do something to help other peeps have life that flows daily with decent water.

Let’s do it as a Christmas gift to the world. Each star who gets any press going up online, have these news items emailed to them daily in the form of google alerts emails. So, in doing this exercise, this is my challenge as a Maori-Kiwi blogger to each one of US as I like US together as a global community connected to all people in the world, to give the gift of water this Christmas to someone else in celebration of life. Celebrity is about water. A celebrity is “anyone who deserves to be celebrated.” In giving water to someone else–we celebrate life, and we act like true celebrities of the world.

Merry Christmas and if you feel inclined, make a difference. is our water distribution agency today. It’s a trust that is action certified that Nicole Richie all year round. Richie also does work too for water distribution via UNICEF as well. I think that’s pretty gnarly good. Let’s do it and make a difference. Cheers and thanks for reading this blog all year round. May festive greetings flow to others too through US. Much love.

Until every person has clean drinking water –no one in the world has true power. Who are we fooling? There will never be peace in the world, if people are fighting over clean water each day. As a power balance exercise that makes us civilized nations look less fake in the eyes of the world, let’s have some fun and make it happen. :)

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.25.10~

 
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Posted by horiwood on December 25, 2010 in Entertainment Celebrity News, Brad Pitt, Billionaires, Bill Gates, Africa, Beyonce Knowles, World News, Think Green, Taylor Swift, Leadership, Brandon Flowers, The Killers, Billy Ray Cyrus, World Peace, Barack Obama, Bob Dylan, Tori Spelling, Taylor Lautner, Bronson Pelletier, TV Ratings, Breast Cancer Survivors, Teri Hatcher, Britney Spears, Tina Knowles, Toys, The Beatles, True Blood, TIger Woods, Black Eyed Peas, Bronagh Key, Twitter, Billionaire Women, Tom Cruise, Box Office Stars, Babies, The Hills, Tinsley Mortimer, Bling Rings, Bijou Phillips, Tyler Perry, Bikini Bodies, Barbara Streisand, Tina Fey, China, Boyzone, Tyra Banks, India, Brooke Shields, Balthazar Getty, Tony Parker, Travel Destinations, Brad Cooper, Bono, Brazil, Trey Songz, Human Rights, Brooke Fraser, Timothy Geithner, BScott, Tim Burton, The Go-Go's, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Momsen, Billy Bob Thornton, Tyler Shields, Tish Cyrus, The Jacksons, Birthdays, Blake Lively, Trends, Life, Taylor Kitsch, Tom Ford, Tennis, Barbara Walters, Trace Cyrus, Tara Reid, Ben Bernanke, Tom Brady, Betty White, Talk Shows, Bollywood, Brooke Mueller, Tatum Channing, Bristol Palin, Tim McGraw, Te Reo Rangatira, Brian Austin Green, Bill Clinton, Tino Rangatiratanga, Like A Prayer, basketball, Tee Shirts, Ted Harbert, The Muppets, Thought For Today, T-Pain, Baz Luhrmann, Bruce Willis, Theater, Bryce Dallas Howard, TI, Tupac, Brooklyn Decker, Bob Marley, Bar Refaeli, Brett Michaels, Benji Madden, Turkey, Texas, Bon Jovi, brad Paisley, Tracey Chapman, Bic Runga, Tonga, Boh Runga, Boy George, The View, Young Hollywood, TVC, Tim Finn, The Muttonbirds, Billionaire HQ on Horiwood.Com, Terri Nunn, beverly hills, The Hobbit, The Pope, Baseball, Blake Civil-Fielder, Bret Michaels, Bird Runningwater, The Rolling Stones, Liberty, Time, Tweens, Teen Romance, Tween Romance, Tween Romance Novel, Tween Romance Novels, Teen Romance Novel, Brooke Abbott, Boxing, Berlin, Taranaki, Spirit, Tolerance, The Young Turks, Tony Blair, Tom Hanks, Books, Water, Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, Tim Gunn, Culture, Teenagers, Tamaki Makaurau, Ben Harper, Barbados, Te Matatini, Beer, Talent Management, Tourism, Ballads, Batman, The Hangover, Brown University, Toronto, The Rock, Tahiti, The Osmonds, Barbara Bush, Boy Bands, The Bee Gees, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bahamas, Ted Turner, Theme Parks, Tennessee, Tommy Lee, Taylor Blue, Ben Lummis, Star System - The Art of American Celebrity, Transparency in a Digital Age, Tattoos, The Black Keys, Tom Hardy, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, , Bronaaki, Teen Moms, Twilight

 

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KYLIE’S YELLOW “TAWA SCHOOL” TEE SHIRT

Authentic Kiwi girls don’t come much more fun than Kylie McKenzie.

Here’s girlfriend rocking an original “Tawa School” yellow tee, with two buds. How authentic and sweet is she, not forgetting her roots. I love it.

The occasion: Taika Cohen’s Boy movie, Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

Highlight: Question & Answer time with the director at the end of the film, Kylie said: “I just want to thank you for bringing Poi E the song, written by Patea Maori club to America. Back in the early eighties, who ever would have thought it would play at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, all those years ago. But you achieved that with this film.” The song was originally written to save families who had lost jobs from “freezing works” lay offs.

If you grew up bopping to this song, it was a very significant Hollywood momento.

Kylie is such a good Kiwi girl. She says all the right things, to add to a special Hollywood occasion. Oh yeah, and Kylie totally bawled her eyeballs off at a certain part. (Don’t want to spoil it, go see the film).

Thanks Kylie for a fun night. Lyn of Tawa (a comedic character based on a resident of Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand –picture Britney Spears in ten years time, going to get the cheetos in her ugg boots to get the ‘Lyn of Tawa picture and appeal’) would have been so proud of you rocking Tawa School this fine Hollywood Eve. Nice one.

Jeremy (on the L) was born in Whangarei City, went to high school with Kylie in Wellington and has been in Los Angeles for over 20 years. Kiwi’s of LA. The accent is still 100% there. Too funny. Alright, press play to see some Maoris turn on an MJ tribute from the closing credits of Boy.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA.

 

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RENEE RANDALL TRAINS YOUNG MAORI, AND GETS A VISIT FROM HIS PRIME MINISTER IN WAINUIOMATA

This news clip in Te Reo Rangatira (the language of Chiefs) of New Zealand, shows how a concentrated and sustained community effort and key partnerships created between educators working with youth in training programs–closely with local business owners is getting results. Jobs for the young.

The biz owners win. Government funded educators win. Most of all young people win –all working together to educate directly where industry is indicating where the economy is expanding. Resourceful, no waste, community grass roots spirit. Smart dedicated focus.

Renee Randall of Taranaki who now lives in Wellington (Wellywood), trains young people at The Wainuiomata Training Centre. In particular young Maori people.

Watch Prime Minister John Key at the 40 second mark, while he goes onto a marae (a community gathering place) to meet with Maori leaders, along with the Minister of Maori Affairs, Pita Sharples.

Then at the 1.57 minute mark, you can view Randall meeting the PM. If you don’t understand a word of the language, that’s okay you’ll get used to it in time. I like the word Peremia (or Prime Minister). The clip is just worth watching to hear that several times in this story. When you watch Maori Television in Hollywood, the word peremia is similar to the English word, Premiere — like a red carpet film premiere. Watch the clip two or three times, and say the word when you hear it. Then you’ve learned some Maori. Cool aye?!

Peremia, is so Wellywood in Hollywood; the word brought a smile. What a versatile prime minister of global action, New Zealand has in Mr. John Key. Training up the next generation is key this week. Enjoy clip.

[News story: Presenter, Scotty Morrison, Reporter Joe Glen, Executive Producer Tini Molyneux for Te Karere. Red carpet premiere Hollywood star belonging to a, once upon a time, legendary auteur and architect of Hollywood Cinema].

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.3.10~

 

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BARRY GLIBB COMMENTS ON CREW LABOR OF 3D FILM MAKING IN NEW ZEALAND – WITH A REPLY FROM ME

“Middle Earth is a 3D film making environment of film making excellence, rich in imagination facilitating diverse culture’s vision (their tino rangatiratanga and unique cultural sovereignty of culture) and their vibrantly entertaining expression in 3D film. Middle Earth is rich in acceptance of others’ difference & a film making haven of World Peace”–Horiwood, 2020′s.

“In 3D, all nations are created equal, in Wellywood film making practices, imagination, execution and delivery of film production excellence.”–Abe Lincoln and Horiwood.

A film is not a film, unless it is made in the Spirit of the experimental filmmaker–Len Lye, filmic artist, Taranaki.

In New Zealand we collaborate and create the world’s next array of Super Heroes in 3D, with powerful messages of good that impact and change the global consciousness and future direction of the world, through Kiwi made pop culture in cinema, merchandising, music soundtracks and entertainment distribution–2020′s

Writes Barry Glibb of the :

“Perhaps unemployed Americans should move to New Zealand to become underpaid production assistants for all these movies.”–Barry was responding to: “JAMES CAMERON’S AVATAR SOARS AHEAD ON WINGS OF HOBBIT LAW CHANGE”

A response: HORIWOOD – What a great idea Barry. The lifestyle that nature has to offer Americans, when not on set in New Zealand – is accessible to all – and would more than make up for any pay cuts.

Also, travel – let’s all people grow up and learn, outside their own cultural frames of reference.

It shows security within peoples own sense of identity, when Americans become a minority on distant shores and blend with the world too. Happily.

In New Zealand, people like dialogue, (not one-sided cultural monologue–so Americans will be more than fine in that switch and exchange). Exciting.

With New Zealand’s potential to attract Bollywood and China to New Zealand landscapes to film musicals and action films in NZ too in 3D in the future, the Americans who do make early inroads into NZ 3D filmmaking NOW – will be set with work for life.

NZ is going to become busy. A globally sought after 3D filmmaking nation. How New Zealanders welcome warmly diverse cultures of the world and overseas actors and crew members too (including those from Hollywood, Bollywood, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Dubai, Russia, UK–every now and again–France), will determine the return rate of these nations to NZ as a filmmaking nation. As far as America is concerned (Avatar’s record breaking success as Hollywood’s leading film of all time box office history), New Zealand is a culturally friendly place for Americans to work and conquer from, with a Hollywood-Wellywood partnership.

Conclusion: Your blog Barry, is rocking, albeit as minimalist as it is, I enjoyed the guide to your twitter account. Thanks for commenting. Incidentally New Zealand has 5% more women than men in its total population, so there’s a few girls that wouldn’t mind marrying an American crew member and sharing citizenship and beach views like no other. A lot to look forward to, aye?!

Wellywood is the box office winning 3D Film Franchises Haven of the film making world. Those who find success with their franchises, will all own homes in New Zealand on beach fronts and live there for most of the year. Their kids will be raised there. It’s the new more-relaxed mecca of box office power players, that can deliver proven results. Well, in 2020, this will be so–Wellywood is the World’s 3D Mecca. It is Middle Earth. A meeting place in The Middle for all cultures to realize the cinematic visions, without culture being compromised in the film making process. New Zealand is a culturally rich haven, paradise nation for this to occur for 3D film makers across the globe.  Good change ahead in Middle Earth.

I like your thinking Barry, where yes, film crew getting roughed around in Hollywood should move to NZ. Why not! NZ is a nation based on immigrants who joined the Indigenous Maori People, so as one of them, NZ can handle you bonding with us Maori-Kiwi lot. It’s how we came to be as a nation, just like America.

Incidentally how any nation has treated their Indigenous Peoples, is the barometer of all human rights relations in the world. It’s the gage of whether other cultures can be trusted dealing within our shores fairly as nations. So as a Maori-Kiwi if you want to move to NZ, I say… Go for it! Get on board brother. More studios other than WETA will spring up in New Zealand too, in order to handle the demand and keep a fair and competitive 3D filmmaking industry occurring in NZ. The economic possibilities are exciting.

[Images - Costume Design worthy -runway fashions - China in Tokyo & Indian sari]

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood Caifornia

 

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WHO IS THIS COMING UP FROM THE WILDERNESS?

 

… I do believe it is Maori songstress, Cindy Ruakere and her Rugby World Cup song, Here I Come. Go here to see.

Courage Wahine Toa. xox.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 7.14.2010~

 
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Posted by horiwood on July 14, 2010 in Leadership, Maori, Rugby, Taranaki, Women

 

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