The trailer for Peter Jackson’s King Kong is out. They are also running a post-production diary in blog and video format. This could well have happened before, but its the first time I have come across it, as opposed to releases of a few stills and clips. Jackson has always embraced new avenues in the […]
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
Rebound Designs takes old books and turns them into bags. I’m not a handbag user, so in a practical sense they are lost on me, but they are really cool. I took a spin past a couple of the op shops the other day, and came home with a few books to experiment with. Maybe […]
Coo!
Posted in miscellaneous on Sep 27th, 2005
The neo-natal manager at a hospital special care baby unit says “Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me.”
I can see the thinking but it just makes me laugh because babies are designed to be cooed over! It’s a cunning part of […]
Spine Tingles
Posted in music on Sep 27th, 2005
You know when you hear something that sends tingles up the back of your neck? This is one of those - Ray Lamontagne’s song Trouble. I also found it as a video.
I’ve had two other such experiences recently. One was Antony and the Johnsons‘ song Fistful of Love. The snippet you hear there is mostly […]
The Scott Parkin Case
Posted in mask, politics, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Sep 19th, 2005
Last week an American non-violent activist, Scott Parkin, was arrested and removed from Australia, after having his visa revoked. The Federal Attorney-General, Ruddock, said that the Minister for Immigration, Vanstone, revoked Parkin’s
visa based on an ASIO Security assessment. “I understand the decision was based upon a security assessment, and security assessments are notsomething about which […]
Artforce designs
Posted in art, design, street art, visual art on Sep 18th, 2005
I’m thinking again about the Colour-in Canberra traffic control box designs, as entries are due by the 23rd. The idea is based on a similar project, Artforce, an initiative of Brisbane City Council managed by Queensland Urban Ecology. They have a gallery of their images, and you can see which are regarded as most popular.
Among […]
Mosman Art Gallery is hosting an
exhibition titled Mr Squiggle - Who’s
pulling the strings: The Art and Life of Norman
Hetherington from Sept 3rd to
October 9th.
‘This exhibition explores the career of Norman Hetherington, the originator, creator and puppeteer of the popular children’s ABC program, ‘Mr Squiggle’. Norman Hetherington has lived in Mosman for over 40 years and […]
Deep Peace
Posted in miscellaneous on Sep 8th, 2005
I heard a lovely Gaelic blessing at yoga tonight:
Deep peace of the running wave to you
Deep peace of the flowing air to you
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you
Deep peace of the shining stars to you
Deep peace of the gentle night to you
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you
Deep peace to you, […]
Foam Latex Puppetmaking Tutorial
Posted in animation, make, materials, puppetry, puppets, tutorial on Sep 6th, 2005
Boing Boing points to Kathi Zung, a NYC maker of foam latex puppets used in animated videos and films, and in particular to her Do-it-yourself Foam Latex Puppetmaking 101 tutorial on DVD. I’d like to try something like that sometime.
This is the same technique that was used to make the Leunig Animated series that brought […]