Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets on Aug 30th, 2005
I’ve been busy making two of those poseable wooden manikins that artists use to draw from into small puppet versions of two actors, a man and a woman. Its been fiddly, since to make the proportions right, I had change the shapes of the bodies, and the length of the limbs, which in turn means […]
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Posted in fun, illustration, visual art on Aug 21st, 2005
From south eastern Australia, possible evidence that the Flying Spaghetti Monster was known to ancient peoples:
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Urban services here in Canberra is running a competition for the opportunity to participate in painting designs on 30 traffic controller boxes around the city. Its a good idea; I hope to put in an entry. The competition was launched a few days ago with the unveiling of this first painted box by Franki Sparke. […]
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Posted in craft, creatures, make, tutorial on Aug 19th, 2005
Manufacturing a Yellow Hound is a short online film showing the process of making this cool plaster dog sculpture. The armature is bundles of foil squished into shape and joined with masking tape. The shape is then covered with plaster bandage and painted. This elephant and bee are made the same way.
I found the yellow […]
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Posted in art, craft, design, make on Aug 19th, 2005
Kath at red current has been blogging about the Craft & Quilt Fair held last weekend, and mentioned really liking a quilt made by Alison Horridge. Here are pictures of three more of Alison’s quilts.
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Posted in art, craft, make on Aug 14th, 2005
This is beautiful.Thanks so much, Mimi. I also love this new one. What is it with me and insects at the moment?
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Posted in technology on Aug 14th, 2005
Thanks to Jose at titereblog for pointing out to me a few weeks ago that I could put a Creative Commons licence on my photos at Flickr.
I’m reminded of Lawrence Lessig’s free culture presentation, which has the refrain:
*Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
*The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon […]
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Posted in photographs, photography on Aug 11th, 2005
A pile of rag rugs outside a shop in Tilba, NSW:
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Posted in design, visual art on Aug 11th, 2005
Its crop circle season in England now; well, from May right through to September. Many of the beautiful photographs of crop circles, such as the one here at Milk Hill, are taken by Steve Alexander. At his site, temporarytemples, you can see images of the latest circles as they appear, as well browse back through […]
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