Tyger is a terrific short film directed by Guilherme Marcondes. While William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, was the starting point, it ‘doesn’t attempt to illustrate or pay homage to the original text’. Marcondes interprets the tiger as symbolizing ‘a hint of wonder along with a fear of progress. The tiger is as much dangerous as […]
Monthly Archive for May, 2006
Speaking of the Man of Steel, here is a video of Land of Confusion, by Phil Collins and Genesis, from 1986.
Oh Superman where are you now
When everything’s gone wrong somehow
The Man of Steel, these men of power
Are losing control by the hour
As well as the music and the political nature of the song, it’s also […]
I was delighted to find Liz Christie’s cool Flickr photoset sequence of Men of Steel in full flight at the recent Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Men of Steel made its debut at Art for Puppet’s Sake, the production that showcased the work of the Victorian College of the Arts inaugural class of postgraduate puppetry students in […]
Live-blogging the rescue: Our trapped miners are free at last!
Posted in miscellaneous, news on May 9th, 2006
It’s 5.10 am here in Canberra. I woke up and turned on the radio wondering how the rescue of the trapped miners in Tasmania was going, and was delighted to hear they have been freed from the 1.2 metre cage and cavity that they have been in for the last 14 days, a kilometre deep […]
Photos of the Sultan’s Elephant starting to come in
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on May 5th, 2006
There is a Flickr pool for photos of the Sultan’s Elephant, the Royal de Luxe street theatre spectacle happening in London right now and over this weekend. The official website gallery is also starting to post photos. The BBC coverage looks as if its going to be good too - I’m hoping to see it […]
Mrsasta has a photo gallery of an exhibit of the Tim Burton puppets and concept art from The Corpse Bride. I hadn’t been drawn to see the movie until I saw these, but now I think I must.
Here also is an interview with Graham G. Maiden, the head of the puppet department on the Corpse […]
This is one of a cool set of images of FaultyOptic’s production, Horsehead, or The Rise & Fall of the Back & Front, taken by Chris Daniel. FaultyOptic is based in London, and is described as ‘haunting visual theatre, automated sets, strange animated figures, cronked inventions and macabre humour’ and ’surreal adult puppetry at its […]
Erth’s roaming dinosaurs
Posted in creatures, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on May 2nd, 2006
Erth’s impressive Gondwana dinosaur puppets have been doing some roaming street theatre gigs. Here are some photographs of them at WOMAD, Adelaide’s world music festival, in March. These were taken by John King, and are used with his permission.
(copyright: John King)
At Flickr, Georgie Sharp also has two cool photos of her encounter with them. I […]