A bit of nonsense for halloween
Posted in craft, fun, make, technology on Oct 31st, 2006
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
Back in September I made a late comment in a discussion thread on Shelley Powers‘ post, Craft/Make. I just want to pull it out and publish it here, and perhaps also on my OPML blog, because I don’t want to lose the thoughts in it.
‘The swap-o-rama-rama and the computer-related stuff were equally exciting at the […]
Espresso coffee hats
Posted in craft, design, fun, make, materials, performance art, portfolio, street theatre, video on Oct 21st, 2006
Making these fun hats was another of my Floriade projects. I enjoyed making them and was really happy with how they turned out. They were made for the performance group The Bunch of Posers, who in this guise are called Acappellacino.
To make them I started out by making the cup shape upside down, with a […]
Warehouse Circus: Carnivale Puppet Parade at Floriade
Posted in canberra, design, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 18th, 2006
Over the last few months most of my time has been taken up with a number of projects to do with Floriade, Canberra’s month-long annual spring flower festival, which finished last weekend. My biggest scale project was taking workshops with a group of kids from the Warehouse Circus, collaboratively designing and helping them to […]
The line up of interested parties for Puppet Rampage 2007 looks pretty cool. Puppet Rampage is the biennial National Puppetry Festival produced by the Puppeteers of America, to be held in St.Paul, MN, in July 17-22, 2007.
Puppet in Berlin
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 6th, 2006
(photo credit: irlLordy, used with permission - thanks!)
irlLordy took a great sequence (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) of photos of a cool puppet entertaining the queue on the steps of the Reichstag in Berlin recently. I really like the aethetic, and it’s interesting to see a bunraku-style puppet being operated on such long rods. The […]
Slow Making
Posted in make on Oct 1st, 2006
Slow Making is a new blog setting out to explore how the philosophy that started with the slow food movement might be applied to making. Should be interesting.
(via Ampersand Duck)