Feed on
Posts
Comments

Monthly Archive for October, 2006

A bit of nonsense for halloween


Read Full Post »

Some thoughts on make and craft

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 […]

Read Full Post »

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 […]

Read Full Post »

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 […]

Read Full Post »

Puppet Rampage

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.

Read Full Post »

Puppet in Berlin

(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 […]

Read Full Post »

Slow Making

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)

Read Full Post »