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Monthly Archive for November, 2006

Duck walks into a Bar

I also received a note about Duck walks into a Bar, a ‘bar-hopping, Muppet-style character who likes to troll bars in search of babes, booze and free drinks’, created by Kevin Susman & James Murray. It’s not particularly my taste, but the puppetry, character and video production are slick, so take a look.

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Finding Nemo: the Musical

Brian Kolm sent me a note a few weeks ago about Finding Nemo: the Musical, a new musical stage show at
Disney’s Animal Kingdom. (Thanks, Brian!). If you page down you can see photos of some of the large puppets, which seem impressive.
‘Principal characters such as Marlin, Nemo and Dory will be represented by live performers […]

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The Fool Factory’s Sunflower gives a unusually taciturn glance at the Walk against Warming a couple of weekends ago. I also love this one of the Rat Patrol at Cutflat.
I’m missing blogging! Heaps of things to blog about and no time to do it, is the story. I figure as far as making work […]

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Gimme a head with hair…

It’s nice to have Claire posting again at Loobylu. (Claire had a beautiful second baby girl recently - congratulations!). Her post today mentions the difficulties of making hair on dolls - I agree it is tricky, and depite the post title, I really don’t like dealing with hair at all! It jogged me to scan […]

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My third project for Floriade was making a giant model flower in cross-section, to be the central display in CSIRO’s Division of Plant Industry’s information tent. I really enjoyed making this, too. Some projects go really easily and this was one of those!
The petals were the main challenge, but I decided pretty quickly to use […]

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