Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:
Northern Light: Other astronomers note that the Plutonians have made few contributions to the development of human culture, unlike the Lobster People of Alpha Centauri, who helped construct the stone statues of Easter Island, or the Xanthropods of Andromeda, who designed the pyramids.
Guardian Unlimited: His face is as gaunt as an Easter Island statue, and yet when he breaks into a broad smile, as he does, just once, it is an incredibly dramatic event.
Film Threat: “Gamera vs. Monster X” is a rather curious affair because it was pegged to Expo 70, the World’s Fair being held in Osaka. Clearly this was a major event for Japan, and in that pre-al-Qaeda era the only genuine major threat to a major international gathering was the untimely appearance of a grumpy monster. In this case, the grumpy monster came from a Pacific Island where a large Easter Island-worthy statue was dug up for shipment to Japan for Expo 70 display.
Mystery, wild rats and avaricious whalers Alkan CHAGLAR (alkan@toplumpostasi.net) toplumpostasi.net
September 28, 2006
Windswept volcanic rocks assaulted at every angle by the ferocity of the Ocean in which it lies, Easter Island has kindled the imaginations of Europeans with its unexplained humanoid statues since it was given its name by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen who sighted it in April 1771. The mysterious megaliths on Rapa Nui (the Polynesian name for the island), which admittedly reassembles silent Gods watching over their subjects have been a source of shrouded mystery for many European writers. Long trying to locate answers for the megaliths and the foreboding ecological disaster that left the island a desert in the ocean, Europeans have thought up many possible theories, some bordering on the extremes of human imagination.
Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:
Seattle Times: Pop-Polynesian style rears its (Easter Island) head again
New Zealand Herald: The repetitive hard stuff is meant to convey that the Triton is still tough, backed up by a Get Hard strap line and a couple of Easter-Island-type figures called "Rock" and "Hard Place" who talk to each other in a Kiwi working-bloke sort of way.
Capital Press: There were past civilizations that did not adapt to climate changes or may have fostered disasters - the Vikings in Greenland, the Mayans in Mexico, the inhabitants of Easter Island, and others.
Independent: By the Sixties he was a major star, living in Chiswick (with a seaside retreat at Eastbourne), happily married, and the nation's most imitated performer, loved as much for his Easter Island face as his daft jokes ("I went to the doctor.
Rapa Nui, Island of Memory by David Stanley South Pacific Travel Blog Saturday, September 23, 2006
The Easter Island Foundation has just brought out a new book by Georgia Lee, Rapa Nui, Island of Memory ... documenting island life over the last 25 years.
Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:
United Rant: Sadly though it won't be the last time we see O'Shea in the centre of the park, nor his love-child on the wing, nor Easter Island Head at left back despite the overwhelming evidence that these players are not, have never been and will never be good enough for the club.
Olive Press: Not that he's a miserable person when you get to know him - far from it - but the faces of the Easter Island statues are positively mirthsome in comparison to his.
Des Moines Register: Derrick Ogden's art students are working on challenging projects. Eighth-graders are completing their Moai cedar sculptures in homage to the monolithic sculptures found on Easter Island.
CHILE’S EASTER ISLAND MOAIS STATUES THREATENED BY CORROSION By Laura Gillis (editor@santiagotimes.cl) Santiago Times SOURCE: EL MERCURIO (September 21, 2006)
The iconic Moais statues of Easter Island are deteriorating at an alarming rate, and experts fear that without a large scale restoration effort, these emblematic figures could be irreparably damaged and eventually lost.
Jimmy Cornell's South American Vacation By Jimmy Cornell More articles by this author Cruising World September 19, 2006B
On the next leg, from the Galápagos to Easter Island, the prevailing winds will be from the south east, which means that much of this leg will be close to the wind. However, getting to the island of the giant statues is well worth the effort, as there are few more interesting places in the entire world.
Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:
Variety: By contrast, Cynthia Nixon's award-winning Becca was a woman turned to stone. She loomed over the other characters like one of those heads on Easter Island, and her refusal to even consider any offer of comfort was her particular hubris that turned her melodrama into true tragedy.
Guardian: It will have come as no consolation to the departing titan to learn he was not alone on a day of sport that resembled nothing so much as the felling of Easter Island statues.
Blade: His head appears chiseled from a chunk of granite - it's an Easter Island noggin, without a doubt - and his way of speaking carries the stern, sincere tone of a recidivism brochure.
UHDA charms Kingsbury Hall audience Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance educates audience with flair By Scott Iwasaki Deseret Morning News Tuesday, September 12, 2006
One surprise was the inclusion of the Easter Island culture with a mix of Hispanic and Polynesian dancing, which was a welcome addition during the Chilean "Isla de Pascua" (which means "Easter Island").
Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:
Chicago Tribune: Yet for years, a parking garage at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building has inexplicably hosted these half-dozen or so vehicles that sit like the statues of Easter Island, vexing the curious.
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog: Nothing happened on Easter Island without trees: no fires for cooking, no materials for building houses, no canoes for fishing, and no wooden poles for raising the enigmatic giant stone statues which stand to this day with their backs toward the sea.
Austin American-Statesman: A small museum at the northeast corner of the Municipal Building has reproductions of human figurines with folded arms found on Syros dating back as far as 2,800 B.C. They look a little bit like the giant heads found on Easter Island in the Pacific and a little bit like the Oscar award. There also are other artifacts from the island.
Keeping the summer going BY ARLINE and SAM BLEECKER (Chicago Tribune) Providence Journal 01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, September 10, 2006
... you can nab free air on a Discovery cruise/tour in February, when the line’s 650-passenger ship Discovery will follow the paths of captains Cook and Bligh, making South Pacific calls at Robinson Crusoe Island, an overnight call at Easter Island, and then heading to Raiatea and Bora Bora.
Power & Taboo: Sacred objects from the Pacific 28 September 2006 – 7 January 2007 British MuseumRoom 5 Admission free
Power & Taboo explores the power of the gods in the Polynesian islands of the eastern Pacific. Displaying part of the British Museum's remarkable early collections from this region, and illustrated with images made in the early part of European settlement (1760-1860), the exhibition investigates Polynesian ideas about the gods and how to manage their powers. Many of the objects have had a lasting influence on 20th Century artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore. Lectures, films and events, which tie in with the themes of the exhibition, will begin later this month.
Fresh light on the new world in pictures that helped inspire first English settlers Mark Brown, arts correspondent The Guardian Friday September 8, 2006 Drawing on the [British Museum's] unparalleled collections in this area - there will be 82 exhibits from an astonishing collection of 45,000 items held - it will show how people lived in this vast island group between New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island.
Countdown in Athens to select world wonders India News Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Athens, Sep 6 (DPA) With the launch of a hot-air balloon over the ancient Acropolis, the campaign to select the new seven wonders of the world reached its final countdown in Athens ... Among the contestants are ... the Easter Island Statues ...
CHILE’S EASTER ISLAND AIMS TO BECOME WORLD WONDER SOURCE: LA TERCERA, THE BRADSHAW FOUNDATION By Liz Yates (editor@santiagotimes.cl) Santiago Times September 6, 2006
In the 2nd century BC, mathematician and travel writer Antipater of Sidon named the seven best destinations to visit in the Mediterranean world. He called them the Seven Wonders. Thousands of years later, seven new wonders will be added to the list, and Chile’s Easter Island has a shot at obtaining the prestigious honor.
Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:
Sydney Morning Herald: Denton then described Mr Chipp's impression of government censors and what they might do with pornography magazines, his lust for the Queen and the similarities between former prime minister Malcolm Fraser and an Easter Island statue "with a poker up its arse".
Australian: THROUGH the decades a passion for archeology has given me special and profound insights into Australian politics. Thus my visit to Easter Island in 1975 revealed a place littered with dirty great statues of Malcolm Fraser.
Tour touches down on nine world wonders Associated Press canada.com Saturday, September 02, 2006
Most of us can't afford the $70,000 US price tag of a 23-day trip being offered by the tour operator Abercrombie & Kent. The trip takes you around the globe on a private jet with 48 other travellers to visit nine world wonders.
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