Dress them up with a long-sleeved fluoro jacket. Dress them down with a short-sleeved one. Team them with your 'CERA separates' -- work boots or a protective helmet. Or wear one as a sash and pretend you're Miss New Zealand. Whichever fashion road you go down, these Populate! lanyards are the danglers de rigueur for this season's with-it street party attendants.

Ronnie van Hout is the artist responsible for the mysterious figure pointing skywards that has appeared on the roof of a central city building.

"When people stop believing in God," said G.K. Chesterton, "they don't believe in nothing — they believe in anything."

Saturday afternoon at Christchurch Art Gallery's 209 Tuam Street outpost and Jess Johnson's Wurm Whorl Narthex is on the grow. Only two days into a six-day install, the hand-painted backdrop is already a treat for the eyes, with green (not red) tape masking the walls in readiness for the next layer of colour. Views from the installation in progress (with the Gallery's Scott Jackson in the last photo)...

Ageing rock god joins Populate! programme in clever cross-branding exercise. As seen on the front and back cover of the Go section of today's Press.