For the 2nd year in a row PILOT has been announced as a finalist in New Zealand’s Best Design Awards. Last year we went on to win the coveted Gold Medal for excellence in Editorial Design and we’re hoping to make it two in a row at this year’s awards in October. Either way, it [...]
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dharma
New Zealand Mint Jewellery introduces the new me Black Onyx collection of sterling silver jewellery. Black Onyx is a rarer cryptocrystalline form of quartz. It is said that black onyx can help you to find / focus your dharma, your ‘true path’ and help you to walk that path. The New Zealand Mint Jewellery me [...]
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In Hot Pursuit of a Tale
Anya Whitlock: In Hot Pursuit of a Tale 31st August- 2nd October Preview 5:30pm August 31, Pierre Peeters Gallery, Parnell, Auckland Following whiffs of nostalgia to rediscover what she was instinctually drawn to in childhood, Anya Whitlock’s first solo painting show sees her delve into childhood fairy tales to understand the various stages and psychological [...]
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Vampire Sex is Best
From Rolling Stone: The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous, True Blood creator Alan Ball says. “To me, vampires are sex,” he says. “I don’t get a vampire story about abstinence. I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.” On his show, every available orifice is used for intercourse: gay, [...]
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It’s Getting Hot In Here
The New York Times reports that, “An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country…”
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Kanye West / Power
Kanye West’s video for new single ‘Power’ is directed by artist Marco Brambilla. Kanye is quite serious when he says, “It’s not a video, it’s a painting” as you’ll see when you watch the clip. Describing the video, Brambilla said, “This is a highly constructed, highly mannered, somewhat religious tabla that communicates the end of [...]
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Broken Puppet Boutique Sale
Broken Puppet Boutique is one of Auckland’s smartest & quirkiest new fashion boutiques. They’re having a big sale…
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Morning Glory
A week or so ago PILOT Editor Andy Pickering chatted with Charlotte Ryan, the host of 95bFM’s Morning Glory radio show. You can listen to an MP3 here, and it’s quite the nice wee listen too…
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Pilot Hits Australia. . .
Sydney and Melbourne readers, please be advised that Pilot is now available in all Australian Mag Nation stores. We really can’t speak highly enough of the nice people at Mag Nation. Their 3 Auckland stores are just fantastic, they stock every magazine you can think of, and crucially, the staff are magazine people. They get [...]
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Jessica | Bear
Here is the opening page and a few spreads from another of our new issue’s fashion editorials. This is one is super fun, it stars the next big thing from Clyne Models – Jessica Clarke, in a very cute story shot by Charles Howells at 90 Mile Beach. See the full editorial in our new [...]
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Total Life Forever
The feature presentation in our new issue consists of a 32-page art & text driven narrative on the concept of The Singularity. This is a complex and controversial subject, dear reader, but essentially, The Singularity refers to a transformative event predicted to take place in the year 2045, after which a form of immortality becomes [...]
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Silent Spring / Grand Visual Narrative
This issue’s Grand Visual Narrative is an in-depth interview with American artist Josh Keyes. We’re fans of Josh, and the feature is spread across 10 pages to really showcase his superb work. The first 3 spreads are above. As well as being an accomplished artist, Josh is an arts lecturer and tutor, and a deep [...]
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Derek Henderson shoots Julia Nobis for PILOT Magazine
Here are a few spreads from one of this issue’s seven fashion editorials. This is fast-rising Australian model Julia Nobis photographed by Derek Henderson. Julia has only been modeling for a couple of years, but she has really captured the moment and gone straight to the top of the international model lists, walking in fashion [...]
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The Cabinet of Curiosities
Here is a very lo-res sneak preview of one of our favourite features in the new issue of PILOT. We’ve brought back The Cabinet of Curiosities, an ongoing regular feature in PILOT. This issue’s Cabinet is the best yet, we’ve remixed some of German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s incredible botanical illustrations from the turn of the [...]
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Pilot #4 / The Poster
How hot is the Pilot issue #4 poster?! Haha. We like it anyway. As said below, Pilot issue #4 is available now in Auckland from Mag Nation stores. It will be available everywhere else, nationwide, from Monday 12 July (next week). Yes, we agree that it is annoying that the mags take another week to [...]
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The Dark Room
Nice Poster YO! Presented in collaboration by Children of Vision, Jimmy D and General Cucumber.com, guerrilla store THE DARKROOM opens it’s doors once again… for three days only from Friday the 9th July … this time inhabiting shop 15 (right next door to Children of Vision) in St. Kevin’s Arcade, Auckland….
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