Mummenschanz, the renowned Swiss mime and object theatre group, will perform the world premiere of their new program, 3×11, a 33 year retrospective of their work, at the Sydney Theatre in Walsh Bay on 31st January 2006. The season runs till 11th February, 2006. Afterwards they tour Australia, New Zealand, and South America, where on […]
Monthly Archive for November, 2005
If you are in Melbourne, The Big West Festival in Maribyrnong looks as if it will be a good time. Full program details are available here.
For puppetry fans it’s a chance to catch Snuff Puppet’s Nyets Nyet’s Picnic; Men of Steel, a high energy cookie cutter kitchen puppetry extravaganza; the disturbing crocheting that is Foxy’s […]
(Image from Dendy Films)
I’m delighted the movie Look Both Ways did so well at the Australian Film Awards this weekend, taking out Best Film (Bridget Ikin), Best Direction (Sarah Watt), Best Original Screenplay (Sarah Watt), and Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Hayes).
Its a real gem: everyday, quiet, low key and unpretentious, but deals in subtle and […]
Mapping puppeteers and makers
Posted in puppetry, puppets, technology on Nov 25th, 2005
Andrew at PuppetVision is has started a map of the locations of puppeteers and puppet builders around the world using the new Frappr! mapping service. It’s a cool idea. If you are a puppeteer or maker, check out the details, and add yourself to the map.
Especially if you are in Australasia - I’m feeling a […]
The Theft of Sita
Posted in books, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Nov 23rd, 2005
(Photograph: Julian Crouch)
PuppetVision recently referred to The Modern Shadow where Michelle Zacharia is exploring combining Indonesian Wayang Golek puppetry and video and digital production techniques, and thinking about western influences in Indonesia. It reminded me of a production here called The Theft of Sita which was commissioned by the 2000 Adelaide Festival of Arts and […]
Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets
Posted in animation on Nov 22nd, 2005
Michael Gagne recently released a first series of short director’s cuts animations, Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets, that he created for Nickelodeon’s 2005 Halloween. For example, Nightmare is great. There is a short production diary, too. These are done in Flash, and looking at them it’s easy to see why puppetry and animation are so closely […]
Cartoon Skeletal Systems
Posted in fun, illustration on Nov 21st, 2005
This is a cool idea: Michael Paulus has a gallery which takes a look at the skeletal systems of cartoon characters. The distortions are interesting. For example, Betty Boop has no lower jaw!
(Via Drawn!)
The moniker for the new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is likely to be ‘the Kiera Knightley version’, but I am going to campaign for ‘the one with the pig’ until someone does a Wishbone-type adaptation with Babe animatronic technology (starring the pig) or puppet pigs (move over Miss Piggy, I don’t want a […]
Here is a fabulous game of ping pong, Matrix style. According to Puppetry Films’, it appeared on a Japanese Game Show to help celebrate the opening of the Matrix. Isn’t puppetry amazing?
Colour-in Canberra: The Suburban Duck
Posted in art, design, illustration, make, street art, visual art on Nov 13th, 2005
At the moment I am painting two traffic control boxes in the Urban Services project ‘Colour-in Canberra’. The first one, The Suburban Duck, is on the corner of Yamba Drive and Kitchener St in Garran, just across the road from the Canberra Hospital. It tells a story from my back garden: about how foxes are […]