Biting the Big Apple
By Ila Couch in New YorkIn January of 1997 I ripped from the pages of a magazine, a horoscope I didn't believe a single word of. Move to a new country? I barely had any savings in the bank. Leave my...
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple: Musician Lindon Puffin
By Ila Couch in New YorkI'm late. Late for a meeting with Lyttleton musician Lindon Puffin. In town for two days, he's already waiting for me at the Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park while I'm...
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple: Designer David Trubridge
By Ila Couch in New YorkSpend a concentrated amount of time in New York City and you're likely to develop tunnel vision. I made that discovery ten years ago while on a train ride to New Jersey. As the...
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple: Billboards
By Ila Couch in New YorkThis weekend I drove three hours to Baltimore for a new show I'm starting work on. I have resigned myself to the endless grey highways replicated in every city I've encountered...
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple: Texas
By Ila Couch in New YorkI've noticed people in New York City crinkle their noses when you mention Texas. It's like they have a hard time disassociating the State's most unpopular resident from regular...
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple: Mike Davison (+vid)
By Ila Couch in New YorkIt's 2:39am and it's a good thing I didn't quit the coffee today because I'm struggling with a few technical troubles that are taking the shine off the fact I finished editing...
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple: Cut Off Your Hands
By Ila Couch in New YorkWe're in Brooklyn somewhere - at the corner of Freedom and Bushwick Ave, says Phil Hadfield bass player for Auckland band Cut Off Your Hands. Two hours earlier I had been out...
View ArticleArtist Mike Davison
It's 2:39am and it's a good thing I didn't quit the coffee today because I'm struggling with a few technical troubles that are taking the shine off the fact I finished editing my first video for TBI....
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple
By Ila Couch in New YorkWhen I first arrived in New York City it took me a while to adjust to the idea of talking up my skills to prospective employers. After meeting with an Executive Producer who...
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple: MAU at the Mostly Mozart Festival
By Ila Couch in New YorkIn the early hours of the morning I'm woken by the sound of street sweepers and garbage trucks in collection of the day's refuse. If "all the world is a stage" as Shakespeare...
View ArticleBiting the Big Apple: Micro-organisms and Mark Twain at Mono Lake
By Ila Couch in New YorkSince arriving in the States more than six years ago, I've worked on a variety of television genres including Talk, Reality, Dating, Food and Home Renovation shows. Most of...
View ArticleLife in New York
Last night as my deadline for this blog loomed and my inbox housed a friendly reminder of that fact, I turned to my good friends Penelope, a musician and Katie, a writer and told them they were going...
View ArticleSpoken Word Poetry Reconsidered
Ila Couch talks to Creative Arts Therapist and spoken word poet Jocelyn Bates about her work with medicated youth in the juvenile justice system and the poem Medication, inspired by her experiences....
View ArticleSteve Abel in NYC (+video)
By Ila Couch in New YorkOver a tasty brunch at Brooklyn Label NZ artist and designer David Thomas introduces me to his partner Ginny Braun and musician friend Steve Abel. It’s the first time we’re all...
View ArticleSaying 'No' to work
When you're a freelancer finding work is hard work but are there some projects that just aren't worth taking? Should morals and ethics be considered when you take a job? Ila Couch in New York asks her...
View ArticleTaking the Lomo for a NYC walk
Biting the Big Apple: Ila Couch takes the Lomo LC-A for a test drive around the streets of New York City and rediscovers her love of analog photography. Read More »
View ArticleBrydee Rood in New York
With a self-professed love of waste, Auckland artist Brydee Rood took her work to a New York festival which questions our culture of consumption.Ila Couch talks to Rood about her impressions of a city...
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