Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in design, miscellaneous on Jun 30th, 2006
You would think that we cut our finger tips enough for someone to have brought out a bandaid that fits over the top of one’s finger without little raggy ears at the corners, and without having to wrap a second bandaid around the finger to prevent the first one coming off. It’s easy. Here is […]
Posted in animation, make, puppetry, puppets, video on Jun 29th, 2006
(photo by Glenn Watson)
I really laughed my way through Peter Cornwall’s Ward 13, one of a number of terrific Australian animations screened at the summit. It’s a stop-motion animation - action/horror/comedy - about a guy who has a road accident and wakes up in the hospital from hell, complete with bizarre medicines, a green tentacled […]
John Xintavelonis, a Tasmanian actor who played the part of Pumbaa the warthog in the Melbourne version of The Lion King gave an entertaining address at the National Puppetry Summit. As well as relating some amusing behind the scenes experiences, he said that although some regarded Disney as the McDonalds of the theatre world because […]
The International Puppet Carnival is an exciting new puppetry event happening at Federation Square, Melbourne from today through 2nd July. Take a look through the wonderful line-up on offer - The Carnival, After Dark, Special Events, and workshops.
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Jun 24th, 2006
(photo by digitaldust)
A few weeks ago I was impressed by a number of photos at Flickr showing some fabulous big dinousaur walkabout puppets at the Paradise Gardens festival in London. This was Sau’rus, an act by the Dutch theatre group, Close-Act Street Theatre. Close-Act was formed in 1991 and ‘has since grown to a professional […]
These were some more puppets on display at the National Puppetry Summit. They featured in Terrapin Puppet Theatre’s 1985 production, Princess With The Echo.
‘Most of Terrapin’s earlier shows were designed and built by Jennifer Davidson and Greg Menthe, however Terrapin sometimes commissioned other designers. Well known Tasmanian artist Tom Samek designed these Czeck style […]
I’ve been back a few days now, and finding it a bit hard to get my head around where to start in relating the great experience that was the National Puppetry Summit. Firstly, perhaps, a thank you and congratulations to Annie Forbes, the Summit Director and Artistic Director of Terrapin Puppet Theatre in Hobart, and […]
Tomorrow I’m heading down to Hobart in Tasmania for the 2nd National Puppetry Summit. It’s hosted by Terrapin Puppet Theatre. I’m excited to be going, as I really enjoyed the first one four years ago in Melbourne, and it will be cool to catch up in person with other people in the puppetry community, and […]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, sculpture, street theatre on Jun 2nd, 2006
Andrew at PuppetVision kindly told me about Make’s report on this huge robotic Electric Giraffe, aka Rave Raffe, a walking vehicle built by Lindsay Lawlor. It’s design follows the mechanism of a toy Tamiya giraffe:
The front and back legs opposite each other step ahead at the same time, propelled by an electric motor. When those […]
(Photo by Special P)
Like Jose, I’ve been interested in the puppets that formed part of Beck’s concert at the the Sasquatch Festival in Royal Gorge, Washington on Memorial Day. Previously, they had appeared at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and in Davis (there is an itinerary there). According to the SFGate Culture Blog, Beck hired […]