Quentin McDonald

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Ōtautahi/Christchurch He/Him Aka Q Toitū te Tiriti Otherwise I am probably not the droid you are looking for.

Scene of at least a hundred grey birds flying over a harbour in late afternoon sunlight. They are moving in synchrony, swooping back and forth over a shallow, windswept bay. The video is taken from a clifftop position high over the water. A working port with ships is visible in the background.
More or less static scene of bush, only present to allow posting the audio.
Two kererū sitting in a tī kōuka or cabbage tree. The birds are green and rusty red large pigeon-like with long necks and small heads. The trees has long spiky green leaves. They are perching on the end of dead branches. In the background is a harbour scene with a township, a cruise ship and the hill formed by an ancient volcano.
Front page of The Press newspaper promoting some sort of Wellness” publication. Robyn Malcolm looking far younger than her age wearing what looks like a long green nightdress.
Newspaper article with headline “Boy spent robbery money in hotel”. Article describes bank robbery by 15 year old in blind wig using fake grenade.
Scene of blue ocean with very dramatic brown plume spreading from coast. Foreground is green scrub.
Close up of a pīwakawaka sitting on a branch. It's a small two-tone brown bird with a litter brown underbelly and short black beak. It has a fan-like tail, large for its body, but in this photo the fan is almost complexly closed. Tail feathers are black with white outlines. The bird sits on a branch in a tangled bush with out of focus greenery in the background.
Black and white photo scene from the “Mary Tyler Moore” show. Two men have there arms around the shoulders of a woman. Both men wear 80s style suits and have serious looks on their faces. One is balding, the other swept back silver hair. The woman is younger, she had shoulder length brown hair. She is smiling and gesticulating. Another bald man sits at a desk partly out of frame on the right and looks up doubtfully.
Principal Skinner from the "Simpson's Meme". In top frame yellow cartoon figure in blue suit looks pensive with hand on chin. Text reads "Maybe I'm a pain in the arse". In lower frame text reads "No, It's the Universe that is wrong"
White super yacht floating in a blue harbour. A bright white tank farm visible in the background. In the foreground is a scrub covered outcrop.
Fireworks going loud on Hackthorne at the neighbours and it’s not even fireworks night !! No consideration to neighbourhood pets 🐶🐾 Looking forward to Winston Peters banning the sale of them to the public !!!
Early morning image of a white cruise ship with a dark blue hull steaming into a very calm harbour. In the background is a steep sided green hillside, partly quarried. Above is a pale blue early morning sky.
Security camera footage from a suburban front drive. Small grey car has backed into drive. A person wearing an orange jacket with the hood pulled up over a baseball cap, approaches the camera and moves it so that any further action is out of sight.
Extract from a latter from Banks Peninsula MP Vanessa Weenink: The ‘nitrate emergency’ declared by Ecan is a farce and another example of why we urgently need to reform local body structures. Best wishes, Vanessa Weenink
A small slip of wrinkled white paper. In Black Gothic text it reads "Invisible Empire" and "Knights of the Klu Klux Klan". In large red text: "You have been visited by the Ku Klux Klan". There is an ornate cross on with a red circle background and what looks like a drop of blood in the centre. There is an address listed to write to for more information but it's very faint (appears to be a PO Box in British Columbia)
North Korean news reader. An elderly woman in a pink kimono with a black sash belt sits at a reddish desktop. Her hands are clasped. Behind her is a projection of a scene looming down a large urban river with Bridget’s across it and buildings on each bank.
Small lamb in metal pen covered with a blue tarpaulin on a large patch of grass. Mature trees are visible in the background.
The book cover for "Here Comes the Sun" by Bill McKibben. The subtitle, in white text near the top reads "A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilisation". The lower third of the cover is two rows of photovoltaic panels slanting away from the viewer. Above them a diffuse sunburst that is centered behind the title text.
A scene over a green suburban valley with some low cloud at the base of a blue sky. In the foreground dozens of small black flies are immobilised in an invisible spiderweb.
Purple sub head that reads “David Gilmour”. Main headline reads “Pink Floyd guitarist ordered to tear down ‘overbearing’ garden shed”. There is a small image of a dark green shed with a white door.
Short movie scene of fog filled harbour, the peaks of the port hills just visible in the background below a blue sky. In the foreground the dark roof of a house and a cabbage tree.
Electorate boundary map of Te Ika-a-Māui/North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Light grey terrain map of the country with electorate boundaries shown in purple.
Photo of rat monitoring ink pad. It is a white rectangle of cardboard, the middle third of which covered in black ink. Where the pad has been baited with peanut butter it has been torn by hungry rats trying to get the last traces. There are large rat footprints visible where they have tracked the ink onto the white parts. The pad is sitting on a rough green grass background with a couple of tī kōlokua leaves visible as well.
Extract from Wikipedia Article: Alan Brash died on 24 August 2002. The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa summed up the life of The Very Rev Alan Anderson Brash as follows: A concern for justice for all people; a conviction that the Church should never forget that it is called to serve the poor of the world; an unwavering commitment to pacifism and the search for peace; and a life-long commitment to ecumenism and the unity of the Church were the hallmarks of Alan Brash's life. He saw these as challenges that should confront all who confess to follow Jesus Christ and he was absolute and fearless in his resolve to walk in that way.[
Mayoral candidate Sara Templeton delivering a speech at her launch on Friday. Sara has curly dark hair and is wearing a blue top, standing at a podium with the edge of her purple campaign poster just visible. Behind her is a screen with her "For Our CIty. Four Our People. For Our Future" statement displayed in the center of it. There's a projected outlines of a leafless tree below the screen. The backs of the heads of two audience members are visible on the left and right of the picture.
Political hoarding for Sara Templeton's campaign for Mayor of Christchurch. The background is two shades of purple. In the middle it reads "SARA TEMPLETON FOR MAYOR" in white text with a large purple tickmark besides the word SARA. Smaller text reads "For our city", "For our People, "For our Future". Sara is pictured on the right. She is a Pakeha woman with dark hear. She is smiling in a friendly way. She is wearing a dark jacket, a reddish-purple top and a necklace that features various colored spheres. There are small authorisation and website statements in white text. The hoarding is mounted on a wooden frame in front of a green native plant hedge that is untidily trimmed at the top.
Actor Martin Landau from “North by Northwest”. A white man in his 30s looking right at the camera with a slightly evil look on his face, seen from the waist up. He has dark hair and eyebrows and blue eyes. He’s wearing a white shirt, grey tie and grey suit, all late 50s fashion. A dark, wooden framed window is visible behind him.
Japanese train etiquette sign. Labeled "Train Manner". Three panels with yellow backgrounds and blue text. The first shows a cartoon figure with lots of baggage spread out and reads "Please be careful not to let your belongings nother other passengers". The second shows a cartoon figure of a woman making a loud phone call and reads "Please set your mobile phone to silent mode and refrain from talking on the phone". The third shows a young person messily eating a fast food meal and reads "Please be considerate of others around you when eating and drinking on the train". All panels include Japanese, Korean and Chinese text.
Sunrise scene over very calm harbour framed by dark hills and silhouettes of trees. Some pink tinged clouds are visible in a light blue sky.
Night camera view of a heavily forked Ake Ake tree. Two possums, an adult female and a juvenile are exploring a possum kill trap. The smaller one leans on the handle to safely let it off. They return to explore
A group of people busy planting on a hillside in a space cleared amongst green lucerne trees. Cloud covered sky and a brief view of the sea is visible in the background.
Photo of paperback book entitled "Mount Dobson, Against the Odds". Subtext reads "His dogged determination and achievements in the hills beyond Fairlie, are something of a legend in the district". Author is shown as Jan Danrell. Image is of a snow covered mountain peaks with an elderly man dressed in black winter clothing sitting on a black snowmobile.
Steep suburban driveway with 8 modest-value cars of various colurs (grey, white, red and black) packed up it.
A stack of paper at least 200mm high sits on slightly worn cream colured corner desk. A green cutting pad is also visible on the desk. The walls visible in the background a very light tea color.
Book cover for "Abundance" by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Subtitle in blue text is "How we build a better future". The image on the book is of a half earch globe. The bottom half is a conventional planetary representation. The top is a futuristic scene showing sky scapers among green fields and solar panels.
Photograph showing TV sceen displaying a frame from "The Gilded Age". FIve women in Victorian dress are shown on the balcony of a large white house. In the top right the title of the show is visible in golden letters. Icons for control of the program are overlaid.
Photo of a young(ish) woman politician standing at a podium. She has long dark hair and it wearing a finely striped white shirt. She gestures to her left as to make a point on a screen that's not visible. In the background a large banner with the stylized "G" Green Party logo is visible. In the foreground the backs of audience member's heads are visible.
Couple in their 30s. Pakeha Man, on the right is looking directly into the camera, his lips pursed into a slight smile. He has short dark head and moderately intensely blue eyes. He is wearing a black shirt with patches of blue stripes. The woman on the left is smiling and leaning her head back on the man's shoulder and is looking at the camera through slightly closed eyes. There is some sort of red strand of red festive lights zig-zagging between two upright metal poles in background which is otherwise black. The couple look like they are in love and also slightly, if not totally drunk.
Map of the Christchurch showing Kererū observations from iNaturalist as blue circles. They are heavily clustered in the hill regions and around the harbour.
Three men sitting a table. An older man in a blue suit with a big pile of cookies on a plate in front of him is leaning over to a white msn dressed as a construction worker who had a single cookie on his plate. He is saying “Careful mate, that foreigner wants your cookie”. A man of colour with a dark beard looks on sadly. He has no cookies.
Photo from front page of Canta student newspaper. CANTA logo in the top left. Headline says "3000 Students March". Photo s of a bunch of quite 80s looking students marching under a very large banner that reads "Will the next step be EDUCORP?"
Image of an enclosed cat bed made out of grey felt, fashioned to resemble a shark's mouth. It has black eyes on either side of he hear and a row of sharp white teeth also made of felt. It sits on a grey carpet in a corner with cream coloured walls. A red blanket is visible in the mouth of a bed and a dark maroon scarf has been dragged out to give the impression of a tongue poking out.
Screen shot from final results page of the Stuff "Nostalgia" quiz. There is a photo of a group of African-American rappers in front of a heavily tagged wall. The score is 15/15. Text, black on a light purple background, reads "Perfecrt score. Hip hop hooray.. ho... hey.. ho" which is presumably some pop-culture reference I would not have got in the quiz.
Stuff headlines read: "Intellectual heavyweights Eddie Clark, Andrew Ecclestone slam Seymour's bill"
Headline which reads “Elon Musk says he has created a new US political party”. Photo below is of Musk in a dark suit giving what looks very much like a Nazi Salute.
Enamelled pin in the shape of a stamp featuting a very satisfied looking stylised Kererū. The pin is rectangular and has godl scalloped edge. The bird is rendered in purple, green and white on a purple background. The pin is mounted on a larger rectangular piece of brown cardboard. Above the pin it reads "Pepper Raccoon" in fun red text. Below is a green box like an airmail sticker which reads "PAR AVIAN - Enamal Pin Series"
On-line website headline reads "WATCH: Dog rescued after miraculously surviving 12-floor fall. The canine accidently fell out of a window of an apartment in Yunzno-Sakhalinsk, Russie, landing on an external AC box. Rescuers son arrived to carry the pet to safety.
About a dozen adults and children in groups of three and four kneeling on a primary school netball court. They are hammering together trap tunnels. In the background school buildings and some large deciduous are visible.
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Grey and white cat lounging on a blue chair. His back legs are extending a long way off the cushion of the chair and his dark tail spread out behind him. He is wearing a bird-safety rainbow collar and has a dark cowel over his ears and head. He looks extremely relaxed and his eyes are only barely open. He is resting on a pillow with an Icelandic glacier image. A matching blue footstool is visible in the background.
Long shot of sailing Waka. In the foreground is a dark tangle of Muehlenbeckia. The double hulled Waka is seen side on cruising towards the rising sun, triangular sail illuminated. The ocean is calm and blue. In the background hills rise covered in houses.
Line graph showing price of gold in US dollars over the last 10 years. The Y axis goes from $1000 to $3500 dollars. The price is shown by a jagged red line that starts around $1100 in 2015 but from 2023 rises very steeply from $2000 to $3500. The graph has the title "10 Year Gold Price in USD/oz" in red text. The graph is black with grid marks every second year and $500. "goldprice.org" is shown in the bottom left.
Laser Kiwi flag flapping in the breeze. A black flag is flying from the deck of a clifftop house as seen from below. The flag has a brown cartoon kiwi on the left with green laser beams coming out of its eyes and heading to the bottom right of the flag. In the top right is a stylised silver fern. The flagpole is attached to the deck of a light brown house, the edge and one window of which can just been seen. In the foreground is the canopy of a very green tree. The background is a very light grey featureless cloud background.
Screen shot of blue-sky following feed. Madam Snazzy has posted a picture of her red velvet sleeve with the caption “I have let multiple people stroke me today”. In an unrelated post just below that Gingy the Ginger has simply said “People… yuck…
Aurora taken from port hills, Christchurch. A red sky fading to green. In the foreground a pair of cabbage trees.
Two men in suits embrace as seen from the side. On the left a bald man in a blue suit. On the right a dorky looking bloke in a grey suit with a red tie. In the background some details of a fairly ornate room can be seen. A couple of men can be seen in the background on the far left.