Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in music, photographs, puppetry, puppets on Sep 30th, 2006
(photo credit: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid)
Laughing Squid is one of my long time favourite blogs; I enjoy the mix of tech and visual arts, and Scott Beale’s photos. Today Scott has the best photos of Beck’s puppets I’ve seen yet, taken at Yahoo! Hack Day.
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Sep 29th, 2006
I’ve been keeping a list of Royal de Luxe links since I first became aware of them last June. This weekend I believe The Sultan’s Elephant is in Calais, and then in La Havre at the end of October (26 - 29th).
The producers who brought The Sultan’s Elephant to London in June this year […]
This is a still from a video of a giant marionette in Reykjavik, Iceland. It’s being operated by three helicopters! There are some other videos here. I can’t find any other information about it, which is strange, but people seem to think it was being filmed as a viral ad for jeans. It makes […]
Posted in make, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, technology on Sep 23rd, 2006
Greetings from Australia for OneWebDay yesterday/today! A few months ago I started making a sculpture or puppet, with the intention of it being performed in a public place on the day, but yesterday, the 22nd here, was so windy I would have got blown away, and today is, too. I’ve just updated my Flickr set […]
This lovely animation about knitting obsession, is written directed and animated by the Finnish animator, Laura Neuvonen.
(via CRAFT Magazine)
Andrew at PuppetVision Blog, with others, has been working on setting up the Puppet Building Wiki, a new, collaborative project to create an online encyclopedia of free, open and accessible puppet building knowledge, tutorials and patterns for all types of puppets. Much like Wikipedia, the site’s open format allows anyone to create or edit any […]
Posted in animation, puppetry, puppets, technology, tv on Sep 1st, 2006
I caught a little of the second episode of David Tench Tonight last night, and I’m quite intrigued. My impression on googling is that people disliked the first episode, but I wonder if it doesn’t have the same kind of sophistication and potential as Norman Gunston, and will take a bit of time to really […]