Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in puppetry, puppets, technology on Mar 31st, 2006
Jose at titereblog has built a specialized puppetry search engine using Swiki. How cool is that! Thanks for the link to my puppetry links at del.icio.us, too, Jose.
I’ve just realized that my favourite puppetry blogs like titereblog and PuppetVision weren’t in my del.icio.us pages, because I am subscribed to their feeds, and read their posts […]
Posted in creatures, miscellaneous, photographs on Mar 27th, 2006
I happened to notice this tiny baby gecko trapped in a spider’s web outside my studio window yesterday. It was only an inch or so long. At first I thought it was one of the little sleek brown skinks, as we have lots of those, and the gecko’s distinctive pads on its fingers were not […]
Posted in fun, miscellaneous on Mar 27th, 2006
A friend told me that a Sydney church had already jumped on the bandwagon. I googled, I goggled, I gonquered:
I encourage them to go the whole hog and adopt my script (we can come to some arrangement) for a full-blown national media campaign. Mine has the distinct advantage of avoiding pointing the finger of blame […]
Posted in fun, miscellaneous on Mar 24th, 2006
There is a curious $150,000 church advertising campaign on in Canberra at the moment. With the tag line ‘I’m not into religion, but I reckon a lot of what Jesus taught is pretty amazing’, it really makes me feel as if the institutional church knows they are up against the wall. Some of the […]
It’s today… did you feel the earth move? Hmmm… neither did I. It’s worth reading Michael Mescheke’s international message for World puppetry Day, though: And all around us, this powerlessness is the true strength of the puppet. Because it is part of that “in spite of everything”, without which human beings would have perished long […]
I’m impressed with mediatinker’s kiwa hirsuta lobster soft toy, made very soon after the discovery of the deep sea species. The detailed pattern and instructions are released on a creative commons license.
(via whip up)
Laura Zindel ceramics: “Crazy old Uncle Larry bought that peculiar spider platter, and we just can’t seem to part with it”, I would like to be a part of that.’ Lovely ceramic crockery patterned with snakes, spiders, insects. I love these bottles.
(via whip up)
In January the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta put on a puppet production called Anne Frank: Within and Without that looks as if it would have been amazing. An article in the New York Times, describes how the writer and director, Bobby Box
“tackles his subject by having two actresses manipulate the doll-like puppets, which […]
Posted in make, photographs, portfolio on Mar 19th, 2006
I’m getting quite fond of this little leafcutter ant I made recently. (It’s only about 15 cm long). I might get to make some big ones later this year.
Posted in fun, miscellaneous on Mar 15th, 2006
Artnatomy is a fantastic anatomical facial expression learning tool by Victoria Contreras Flores. Play with
the actions, especially in naturalistic mode. The pout is wonderful. (via Drawn!)
This reminded me of a collection of life casts that I had seen a while ago. Life casts are plaster casts of actors’ faces, made so that makeup artists can […]