#taihape

[rhysdarbinizedarby]

Ben from Comms here. Well… The Hoff rumours were true!

We've got more photos and videos, but we'll hold off sharing these until the show he's filming airs.

A day that Taihape will remember for a long time! (And probably one he will too in fairness)

Source: Rangitīkei District Council on instagram

[violetsandshrikes]

1980s New Zealand, where being gay means hiding in plain sight and local homophobes, backed by the Far Right churches of Reagan’s America, are hell bent on destroying any liberal fantasies of change. With money and power behind them, they wage open warfare on New Zealanders fighting for their right to be different.

We know the broad political story of how homosexual law reform was won in the 1980s, but we don’t often hear the voices of the amazing men and women who lived it. The gritty activists who were spat at and reviled, who risked jail and losing their families. They fought both local and international hatred, taking to the streets in anger and in celebration. "Cynthia Bagwash" who disrupted meetings in her stylish fox-fur and white gloves, the lusty anthem singers harassing Salvation Army anti-reform petitioners, the heartbroken nurses working in the AIDS wards, and the man tasked with bringing his cousin’s body back to the marae.

Would be grateful if anyone could boost! These guys are trying to get funding for this documentary about the fight for gay rights in 1980s Aotearoa.

The director, Welby Ings (Punch 2022, Sparrow 2016, Boy 2005, long listed for the Oscars ) knows the story intimately. In the early 80s, he started his small town’s three person pressure group, Gay Rights of Taihape ( GROT ). Arrested several times and with his teaching career under threat, he threw himself into the national campaign, protesting, infiltrating and interfering as much as possible with the opposition.

[have-you-been-here]

Giant gumboot, Taihape, New Zealand

[jetlagpolls]

What's the best challenge in Jet Lag season 5?

Waterfall at Huka Falls. Completed by Toby and Sam in Season 5 Episode 5.

Eat a carrot at Ohakune Adventure Park. Completed by Toby and Sam in Season 5 Episode 5.

Throw a gumboot at the Taihape Gumboot Throwing Lane. Completed by Toby and Sam in Season 5 Episode 5.

[penguinsstealingsanity]

Went on holiday last week. Figured I'd cross post from Instagram. Post 1 of ?

First of the holiday snaps from last week - Tawa to just before Ohakune. Seeing a 110 km/h road sign made us feel like we were in Aussie again.

First pit stop was Foxton where I finally got to see the windmill up close. Heading north, we got stuck for a good 15 mins with road works north of Bulls. North of that, we saw the Makohine Viaduct which is famous in the family for someone saying "Trains don't go over that" just before a train went across. After a lunch break in Taihape (not pictured), we went through Waiouru and saw the tanks. Then, north of Waiouru (and with SH1 closed), we finally got a glimpse of Mt Ruapehu.

[misplacedmidlanders]

Thursday, May 9th 2024. Ohakune > Wellington.

Like my mobile phone when I'm expecting a call, today was a Ring-less day. Our planned visit to Mangawhero Falls was unfortunately cancelled due to ice on the roads (apparently it's unsafe to drive several hundred feet up a mountainside in these conditions, but that's news to me). 

Jake and I are looking at making this visit ourselves when we have the campervan in week three, so the ice better be gone by then otherwise we're wrapping chains around the tyres and Fury Road-ing our way up this goddamn mountain (we're looking for a volunteer to strap to the front of the van, please let us know if you're interested in applying).

So instead, we journeyed south towards the capital, Wellington, making stops at Ohakune (a small town), Taihape (a small town) and Levin (also a small town). Most of these towns were actually quite similar to places in the UK - in fact if you took the nice parts of Loughborough and streched these across a single road (and removed the yobs) they would look almost the same.

We'll be staying in Wellington for the next few nights, and we're visiting Weta Workshop tomorrow, so expect some more re-enactments of your favourite LOTR moments by a pair of sleep-deprived 30 year-olds.

[adt1jackwatters3dmodels]

Final Project 5

Unwrapping the glowing lights. Making a new material for it. I've also made the gumboot and monument their own material and have unwrapped both of them together so they stop overlapping.

Taking this opportunity to fix the hand of the person and apply a quick backface cull to the flag (I can't add more meshes because I'm not sure if it would fuck up the re-bake).

Re-exporting and importing the mesh, hitting bake again (this time without the new materials for glass and glow.

I've layered on this font material onto the sign.

Texturing the town hall again. Making it more orangish, and doing the window frames.

I've added a rough wood texture and reduced it's roughness, but upped it's notches an fibers to give a similar texture to corrugated iron.

Adding some wooden textures to the bench.

Adding these really nice wood textures to the train stop and support. It's kind of rustic, which is what I'm going for.

Making the train car look a little worn from exposure.

For the wood on the town hall, i had to make two separate textures masking different sections to make the planks at the point at right angle.

More bench texturing.

Using a few stone textures plus some metallic wear to create a worn, grungy texture. This will further emphasize the broken-ness of the town.

Adding rust and wear to the streetlamps.

Adding wood and mud to the Taihape sign. I went through a few textures for the ground under the sign, but eventually just went with mud.

Adding some moss to the benches in monument park. It just sort of makes sense if it's in a park where the elements are more prevalent.

Making the boot's supports metal looks more in line with the boot itself.

Just mirroring a lot of the wooden textures on this bench and bin to other bench and bins.

Another bing texture.

Went for the street sign colours on the street sign, also the bin. The textures a lower quality because of how small the unwrap was when combined with the long pole, but it doesn't stand out too much.

[newzealandrail]

Kiwirail DL Class, Taihape, 2023

[the-sky-is-my-palace]

Neon by night 01.04.2018

[taihapepolicenx-blog]

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[rhysdarbinizedarby]

Fan photo with Rhys Darby at Taihape last week!

[roadsconnoisseur]

New Zealand North Island Adventure day 3: Taupo -> Wellington - Explored the town next to Lake Taupo. Couldn’t do the Huka Waterfall Track due to time and energy limits. Stopped at Lake Taupo Full Moon Lookout near Motutere, Gumboot Sculpture at Taihape, Foxton and arrived Wellington early enough to get dinner. It’s very windy here. Would stay 2 days to navigate around by foot or short drives. #taupo #laketaupo #taihape #gumbootsculpture #streetart #foxton #northislandnz #newzealand #roadtrip (at Wellington, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqAkz-gvljI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[taihapepolice]

http://taihapepolice.com

[editfulla]

Saw plenty of snow on my travels today from Palmerston North via Taihape to Napier to visit my bro #bro #brother #napier #taihape #nz #snow #travel #4wd (at Erehwon, New Zealand)

[penguinsstealingsanity]

Holiday photos part 16 of 16

Time to head home - We left Rotorua on the first non-sunny day we'd had while on holiday. However, the Desert Road was now open and we could experience another view of the volcanoes.North end, the weather was crap and the volcanoes hid. But as we headed south, Mount Ruapehu appeared for us.South of Taihape, we saw some nice rock faces exposed. Nothing volcano down this way - all sedimentary. The rock faces in phots 6 and 7 are beside the Rangitikei River.Going through Bulls, we got stuck in traffic and I had a chance to grab a pic of one of the bull statues scattered around the town.Not far from home, we hit low cloud and terrible weather not far from home on the Wanui Saddle. But as we descended down, we got out of the cloud and managed to grab a snap of the rainbow bridge in Pāuatahanui.

[adt1jackwatters3dmodels]

Final Project #2

Building the monument, I might've used too many polygons for it.

The letters were quite hard to replicate, but I feel like I managed pretty well.

I had to remake a lot of the edits because the program crashed when i went to unwrap and i forgot to save.

Separating out and connecting a lot of the segments (maybe punishment for using so many sides.

Making the crucified person out of simple sharp shapes.

Time to unwrap the church by individual piece

Unwrapping and connecting all the pieces for this crucified person was quite tedious.

Creating windows, using rounding, etc. to create this nice front for the town hall. This time using a limited amount of sides.

Creating a staircase. It was quite annoying to delete faces and bridge gaps for the railing.

Added some boxes to match the actual town hall.

I've added a flag to and a chimney to the top of the town hall, again to match the real life Taihape town hall.

Discovering the noise modifier has been a great boon to me as it most certainly helps morph these geospheres into more tree looking shapes.

Creating the small pieces and this train shape was interesting. It required many small pieces, like using the line tool to create tubes to replicate the 7077 NZ's wires, but also making sure each wire varied from the other. The hook was quite easy to make, it's just blocky geometry. But the wheels were quite hard. I started off with half a bogie, then used the mirror tool to create the other half and then bridged it. Though that process was tedious. I also took advice from Flynn to make the springs.

^The train that specifically goes through Taihape.