Ellie Goulding – Vector Arena – Review

Ellie Goulding kicked off  her second New Zealand tour on Saturday night with a performance at Auckland’s Vector Arena .

Vector Arena was set up with a free flow crowd system where a ticket to the show got the viewer access to any seat and the entire floor area. Seats were on a first in first served basis and filled up fast. That left the rest of us to join the swarm on the floor which was good for the tall people, not so much for the shorties. There was plenty of room for fans to move and dance with no pushing and shoving, I am glad to see the event was not over sold.

IMAX – The Big Picture

Earlier this week, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-screening of “Maleficent” at IMAX cinema (Thanks to someone).

With myself being from a small town (where the cinema is named Whakamax) and currently living in West Auckland, I had not experienced a screen bigger than your average household LCD TV. The IMAX cinema however is like an auditorium, it felt like I entered the Colosseum when I walked in and I was almost disappointed when the people already seated didn’t applaud me. I scaled the stairs and found a center seat about 100 meters back from the screen, took my seat, turned to see the wall of a screen in front of me and was immediately impressed.