Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in puppetry, puppets, technology on Apr 22nd, 2006
Jose at Titereblog has followed up his puppetry search engine with Puppetsfeed, a site where feeds about puppets and puppetry are being collected and listed. It’s a great idea, and it looks attractive, too. I’m enjoying the feeling that another person on the other side of the world is thinking in similar ways about using […]
You know, if I was a scriptwriter, or puppetry director or TV producer, I would seriously be thinking about a production based around Mimi Kirchner’s wool dolls. Mimi’s latest are these fabulous robots. Can’t you imagine them as the main characters in a show? Could they be some strange new manifestation of the couple in […]
Posted in music, photographs on Apr 21st, 2006
I’ve just got around to making a Flickr set of photos of the Thredbo Blues Festival in January. Thredbo is one of the skiing resorts in the Snowy Mountains up near Mt Kosciusko, but in summer the blues festival takes over the village, casual and cool, for a weekend. The highlight for us was seeing […]
Posted in creatures, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Apr 21st, 2006
Royal de Luxe’s wonderful spectacle, The Sultan’s Elephant, is coming to London from 4th - 7th May, brought to you by Artichoke. It will take place in the streets and public spaces of Westminster, in the
area around Horse Guards Parade in St James’s Park, St James’s,
Piccadilly, Haymarket and Trafalgar Square. There is a new […]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, technology on Apr 17th, 2006
I’ve been fiddling around making an OPML directory of online puppet links. I’m just feeling my way, and at the moment I don’t know how selective I want to be or how far I want to take it. It may turn out to be not very far, though it does have the capacity to include […]
Swazzle, a San Francisco puppetry company doing live theatre, has started up a great online presence over the last six months or so. Their puppeteers and builders are blogging individually, but also as a team:
Sean Johnson: Puppet101: puppet building
Anita Coulter: Puppet U: manipulation techniques and puppetry performance techniques
Patrick Johnson: Puppet Design: character design […]
Posted in books, visual art on Apr 3rd, 2006
This is a cool idea: the Rejoice Giant Comb! According to How advertising spoiled me it was devised by Somak Chaudhury, an art director from Leo Burnett in Bangkok.
It makes me think of Rohinson Mistry’s novel, A Fine Balance, because the story starts with a vivid image of one of the protagonists buying a comb […]
Posted in animation, art, automata, creatures, illustration, make, sculpture on Apr 3rd, 2006
Vladimir Gvozdariki is a Russian artist who makes whimsical figures, animations and images. Some are pleasing in their simplicity, but I particularly like his complicated drawings of mechanized animal structures. They are in numerous places in his galleries, like here, here and here and here. I also like how some, like this fish, have […]
Here is a slightly spooky thing to listen to when you are making a doll or puppet, as happened to me yesterday: The Dollmaker, a radio play by John Aiken. The doll becomes an alter-ego of its maker. I’m not sure how long the audio remains available, but give it a listen, its well done.
Another […]