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 Wellington Fashion Week - Day 2 highlights
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Wellington Fashion Week - Day 2 highlights

Oosh Multimedia has teamed up with BRIGHTBLACK to bring you daily recaps of the shows at WFWeek 3-7 April 2013. Here is the lineup for Day 02. Music by Young Tapz courtesy from our friends at http://www.facebook.com/OoshMultimedia

NZ Home of the Year 2013
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NZ Home of the Year 2013

New Zealand magazine's Home of the Year 2013 is a house by Stevens Lawson Architects on a picturesque headland on Waiheke Island, near Auckland. The Home of the Year is New Zealand's richest architectural award, with the winning architects taking home a $15,000 cash prize. This home is the 18th winner of the award.

'Buck' brings back Marmite
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'Buck' brings back Marmite

Marmite is back on store shelves today after half a million jars were delivered around the country. The breakfast spread has been missing from shops since early last year after the February 2011 earthquake damaged Sanitarium's Christchurch factory.

Incredible Canadian space food
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Incredible Canadian space food

In this Let's Talk Science event with students from Airdrie, Alberta, Chris Hadfield describes how a person's sense of taste changes in weightlessness. He then shares a collection of Canadian food brought to the Station on board SpaceX's Dragon. Maple syrup in a tube, anyone?

Watch: Auckland Harbour Bridge wedding
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Watch: Auckland Harbour Bridge wedding

Sydney couple Brad and Loretta Bollard tied the knot under the Auckland Harbour Bridge this afternoon, then bungy jumped off it along with the best man, bridesmaid and celebrant - watch video of their special day...

Raw: It's the Oyster season!
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Raw: It's the Oyster season!

Oyster lovers from Bluff to Auckland have been waiting for this day, the frenzy has started. Salty, succulent and totally addictive - all Kiwi oyster-lovers look forward to the start of March when "Bluffies", the creme de la creme of the shellfish world, come into season.

Video: Auckland Pride Parade
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Video: Auckland Pride Parade

The return of a Pride Parade to Auckland has been declared a fabulous success. Twelve years after Hero died, Ponsonby Road has seen the return of strutting drag queens, two-mum families and hairy gay men known affectionately as "bears" - who even brought their own Goldilocks. Thousands of people lined the streets to watch the floats go by and shouted, waved and cheered.

Backstage at Laneway Festival
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Backstage at Laneway Festival

Mark Kneebone. Cool by name, and cooler by nature, Kneebone is Co- Promoter of the St Jerome's Laneway Festival. Now in its fourth year, Laneway has grown to become the largest Auckland-based music festival and the leading alternative music festival in New Zealand. The backstage story follows Mark as he got ready for the 2013 Auckland Laneway Festival.

Inside NOM*d's workroom
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Inside NOM*d's workroom

@iDinsider takes you into the workroom of #iDFW label NOM*d and gives you a glimpse of what designer Margi Robertson will be showing at iD Dunedin Fashion Week 2013.

Coco Mademoiselle: The Film - CHANEL
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Coco Mademoiselle: The Film - CHANEL

COCO MADEMOISELLE is here again, beautiful, independent and mischievous. With Keira Knightley and Alberto Ammann, directed by Joe Wright. Soundtrack : "It's a man's man's man's world" (James Brown, Betty Newsome), performed by Joss Stone. Courtesy: YouTube/CHANEL

Facebook: The things that connect us
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Facebook: The things that connect us

Chairs, doorbells, bridges, airplanes. These are things that people use to get together and connect. Facebook is also something that over a billion people around the world use to connect with one another. Courtesy: YouTube/theofficialfacebook

Christmas lights for Christchurch
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Christmas lights for Christchurch

Meet Carl and Maureen Seaward of Shands Rd, Prebbleton (Canterbury); they have spent the last four years collecting over 300,000 Christmas lights and have them on display for the folks of Christchurch to enjoy. With the city having a tough time over the past couple of years, they want to 'put the christmas spirit back into everyone'.

Video: It's 'Ozzie Az Bro'
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Video: It's 'Ozzie Az Bro'

A creative take on the issue of national identity from the perspective of three New Zealanders living in Australia, courtesy of Megan Watson. (NOTE: Contains mild foul language.)

Slideshow: Farmers Santa Parade
New Zealand

Slideshow: Farmers Santa Parade

Thousands of eager children lined the streets of Auckland to get a glimpse of the jolly man in red. It wasn't only Santa who delighted the crowd - the New Zealand Army Band, the Christmas Train, Willie Wonka floats and a giant inflated Cat in the Hat also took part in the 78th annual Farmers' Santa Parade.

How to grow your mo'
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How to grow your mo'

Nick Offerman and friends from The Office give advice on growing a moustache for Movember. If you're stuck at the "Ugly Geraldo" stage, hang in there because... it gets fuller.

Air NZ 2012 Wine Awards
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Air NZ 2012 Wine Awards

Connoisseurs have spent the last couple of days sampling the nation's best vino, selecting the best for the Air New Zealand Wine Awards. The medal winning wines will be announced on November 14th.

Eva Longoria in NZ talking Shopping Channel & Politics
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Eva Longoria in NZ talking Shopping Channel & Politics

Star of the hit series 'Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria, has graced New Zealand shores. As guest speaker for the new Shopping Channel which she will make a guest appearance, during her busy schedule she took time for a special press conference to answer questions about her Life & style, Shopping & her involvement in the Obama Presidential campaign.

Force strong with this one
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Force strong with this one

YouTube parents SebastianL2012 of a four month old baby boy "discovered by accident that the Star Wars theme song has 'magical abilities' to calm the baby down. He was screaming and crying in the car one day, and the MP3 player started playing this song and he just stopped. Then, every time after that when he'd be crying for no reason we'd play this song, he'd perk right up" courtesy SebastianL2012

Team USA wins Cocktail World Cup in Queenstown
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Team USA wins Cocktail World Cup in Queenstown

Team USA made not only a perfectly balanced and well executed drink but delivered a highly choreographed stage show. In keeping with the event’s theme ‘Lab Experiment’, their performance was inspired by American comic ‘The Incredible Hulk’, the ultimate scientific experiment gone wrong. In an incredibly tightly contested final, Team New Zealand took out second place with Team Great Britain coming in third.

Fashion: SHEN - 'Behind the Scenes' Doco
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Fashion: SHEN - 'Behind the Scenes' Doco

Mary-Ellen Prendergast of up-and-coming local fashion label, Shen, has an easy affinity with the Ballet. This artistic connection was explored in Shen’s SS 12/13 collection Naïve Romance and has now been fully realised through a stunning short film of the same name, featuring Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer Katherine Grange and filmed by renowned photographer, Stephen Tilley. Video courtesy PROCESS Fashion.

Miss Malawi shoves Miss NZ
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Miss Malawi shoves Miss NZ

Miss Malawi pushes Miss New Zealand Collette Kelly Lochore on stage as they fight for camera time at the Miss World pageant in China. Miss NZ organisers have made a formal complaint.

Spanish meals prepared from out-of-date food found in bins
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Spanish meals prepared from out-of-date food found in bins

In the centre of Madrid, about 30 people are enjoying open-air dining. It looks like a normal meal. But all the dishes were prepared from out-of-date food, most of it found in bins. It's one way to stop waste at a time when Spain is suffering from an economic crisis.