Young adults

Here are entered works on people in the general age of eighteen through twenty-five years.

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Portrait of a group of young women (with poi) and men

Date: [1910s-1920s?]

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: PA9-141

Description: Black and white photographic portrait showing a group of taitamariki (young adults). In the front two rows women can be seen seated while wearing pounamu pendants and holding poi. Men are shown standing in the back row, some dressed in suits. All wear similar clothing, possibly as part of a concert party. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted in wooden frame. Provenance: Previously owned by Iraia Te Whaiti and then inherited by Hohaia i te Rangi at Whakatomotomo Road, South Wairarapa. Passed to Te Whaiti whānau in 2022.

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Flash cars etc

Date: 1976

From: Hewson, Paul :Photographs by Paul Hewson and other New Zealand photographers

By: Cammick, Murray E, 1953-

Reference: PAColl-5782-03-03

Description: Three young men and a young woman photographed leaning against the front of a motor car. Photographed by Murray E Cammick in 1977 Shown in 1976 in the Snaps Gallery Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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"Isn't it strange to think that an erupting volcano in ICELAND can disrupt air traffic ...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0014170

Description: Tony comments on the strangeness of the Iceland volcano having such a disruptive effect on air transport in New Zealand. Jaimee pontificates about its being an example of the interconnectedness of all things and gives an example. Tony counters by saying that Eyjafjallajokull is another example of the chaos theory and Jaimee is irritated because he is showing off the fact that he can pronounce the name. She of course can pronounce it too. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"Irrepressible urge!" "Thricely?" "Precisely! A pocket full of pips!" "... and nothing ...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0013821

Description: A conversation among the three friends, Jaimee, Debbie and Tony. Bizarre and baffling - lingo incomprehensible... Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"Enough of The Origin of the Species sesquicentennial! I demand equal time for de-evolu...

Date: 2009

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0012832

Description: Jaimee decides that she has had enough of the origin of the Species Sesquicentennial and thinks de-evolution should have equal time. Debbie argues inanely and then puts a flowerpot on her head while Debbie provides examples of devo that include pure and noble artistic endeavours being degraded into commercial sell-outs like the Treasury of Jitterati cartoons that is on sale at the Wellington Zinefest Mighty Mighty Sat Nov 21st. 'Devo' is short for devolution. Meaning to regress or degenerate. To evolve backwards Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"Go on... say something NICE about the NZ Music Awards." "Gin Wigmore looks and sounds ...

Date: 2009

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0012539

Description: Debbie tries to get Jaimee to say something nice about the NZ Music Awards and misconstrues Jaimee's compliments for insults and vice versa. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"Okay, you can pay $28 and visit Zealandia and its new visitor centre, or just pay $18 ...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0014165

Description: Debbie wants to visit the new expensive visitors' centre at Zealandia and Jaimee lists several things she can do for free that will give her much the same experience. Debbie realises that Jaimee's argument is compelling but Jaimee clinches it by commenting that she doesn't buy bottled water either. Zealandia is a preditor-proof fenced piece of native bush at the Karori Sanctuary. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"Amanda Palmer at Bodega on Friday..." 10 March 2010

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0014163

Description: Jaimee tells Tony about several interesting events that are happening in Wellington. Tony comments that her 'inner teenage goth must be swooning' and she pretends cool innocence while inside her head her teenage goth goes 'Squee!' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"I'm looking forward to seeing Ravi Shankar in March." "Ravi Shankar?" 28 October 2009

Date: 2009

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0012692

Description: Jaimee tells Debbie that she is looking forward to seeing Ravi Shankar in March but Debbie doesn't know who she is talking about. Jaimee explains that he inspired George Harrison and wrote the music for 'Gandhi' and that he is the most famous Indian musician in the world - it is only when she says that he is Norah Jones' dad that Debbie realises she knows the name. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"I'm still seeing spots after that Yayoi Kusama exhibition!" "Dots,Debbie, not spots." ...

Date: 2009

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0012538

Description: Debbie says that she is still seeing spots after the Yayoi Kusama exhibition. She and Jaimee procede to have a 'debate' about whether they are spots or dots. Jaimee thinks that dots are high culture - Lichtenstein, Seurat and Gordon Walters and spots are low culture - like Adrian Mole and Bluebottle. She believes that fridge magnet poetry ellipses are borderline. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"You have to pace yourself for Wellington on a Plate." "So I've heard." ... "The events...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0015385

Description: Debbie and Jaimee discuss the 'Wellington on a plate' event; Jaimee's attempts to dampen Debbie's enthusiasm don't work. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"Petrol and parking's too expensive, the buses are creaky, the trains keep breaking dow...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0013822

Description: Jaimee complains about the expense of petrol and parking, about the creakiness of buses, about the trains that keep breaking down and about cycling in Wellington being suicidally dangerous. Debbie says smugly that that is why she walks everywhere and Jaimee (who always retaliates) says that she doesn't like Debbie's shoes. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"BEEP!" "BEEP!" "No car? Couldn't your BOYFRIEND drive you? Oh, RIGHT... no boyfriend" ...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0014168

Description: Tony, Debbie and Jaimee get onto a Wellington bus using their snapper cards. When Jaimee swipes her card, instead of beeping, the machine tells the world that not only does Jamie have no car but she has no boyfriend. She is mortified. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"Tonks Grove precinct! Built by historic Wellington figures, lived in by workers, left ...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0014443

Description: Jaimee is raving on to Debbie, who isn't listening, about the offering for tender of the heritage buildings that were relocated and restored as part of the NZ Transport Agency's Wellington Inner City Bypass Project. She is heavily ironic and cynical about the selling at inflated prices to developers of the precinct, which encompasses the new Tonks Grove from the top of Cuba Street through to Kensington Street, as well as properties in nearby Willis Street and Oak Park Avenue. The Tonks Road cottages were built in the 1880s by the Tonks family for themselves and their workers, along with several other dwellings in the area including a two-story Edwardian dwelling that was the home of original settler Kate Tonks. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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Buist, Grant: "Hey Tony, look who has a billet now!" ... 9 March 2011

Date: 2011

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0017471

Description: Jaimee compete's with Tony over who has the best billet. When he piously tells her that 'It's not a competition Jaimee, it's about HELPING people, she sticks out her tongue at him and incites her billet to race him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"The PM wants to create environmental jobs for school leavers." "Green jobs for a green...

Date: 2009

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0011911

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strips, commenting on the foibles of politicians and political issues in New Zealand and published in the Dominion Post. These cartoons tend to reflect the current events of the day without dealing directly with them. Records for the cartoons in this collection have not been enhanced by a full 'scope and contents' as they are essentially self-explanatory and can be searched by key word. They do have subject headings. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"GOOOOOAL!" "I see rates are going up again..." 23 June 2010

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0014628

Description: Debbie is terribly excited by the football that she is watching on television but Jaimee is totally unimpressed. She is more interested in what the government is doing to the cost of living. Even when she tells Debbie that prolonged vuvuzela exposure leads to sterility Debbie continues to yell. Refers to the FIFA World Cup soccer in South Africa from the 11th June to the 11th July. The All Whites have drawn their first two games causing a great deal of excitement. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"Well, it's that time of year again... Time to go out and buy that target T-shirt..." "...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0014441

Description: Debbie and Jaimee are talking about New Zealand Music Month. Debbie says that this year she is going to pretend to know who kids of 88 are. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"I want to see 'Death and the dream life of elephants' at Batts... But I spent ten minu...

Date: 2009

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0012767

Description: Jaimee wants to see 'Death and the dream life of elephants' at the Bats theatre but professes herself unable to find out what it's about. Debbie comments that being baffling and incomprehensible is often a good marketing strategy which makes Jaimee wonder what Debbie is selling. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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"I think Ken Duncum should write a sequel from David's point of view. It's only fair." ...

Date: 2010

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0014951

Description: Debbie has confused The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which has been adapted for the Stage by Ken Duncum, winner of the 2010 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize, and the McPhail and Gadsby show. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

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