As I have said before. And even when it is a tyrant. It’s barbaric.
Monthly Archive for December, 2006
Penguin books beat Time to the punch on focusing on you, the user. They have a series of classic books with blank covers, so you can do the cover illustration yourself. It’s a cool idea, and I might buy the Woolf or Austen if I saw one, but I’m not really tempted. However, it has […]
Puppet Up! - Uncensored is coming to Australia late in the summer, first to the Big Laugh Comedy Festival in Sydney in March, and then the Melbourne Comedy Festival in April. I’ve just been watching the video clip and it looks like it could be a lot of fun. The Age recently had a short […]
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience: new slideshow
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets on Dec 9th, 2006
(Photo credit: Craig Sillitoe)
Today’s online Sydney Morning Herald has a slideshow of new photos by Craig Sillitoe about the making of Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience with a narration by their Head of Creature Design, Sonny Tilders.
Previously: Workshop footage, Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience
Satellite image of fire fronts in Victoria
Posted in miscellaneous, news, technology on Dec 9th, 2006
This is a satellite image of the Victorian bushfires from the satellite NOAH/AVHRR at 10.15 am ESDT, on Dec 7 2006 (click on the image to see it full size). It was processed by Edward King from CSIRO’s Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research. The colours indicate green for forest, blue for smoke and cloud, […]
The Moth Tree opens tomorrow night
Posted in canberra, design, illustration, make, portfolio, theatre on Dec 4th, 2006
Over the last while I have been involved in designing and making the set, costumes and puppets for Canberra Youth Theatre’s production, The Moth Tree: An Awesome Adventure.
The Moth Tree is a quest story set in a distant place, in a quiet part
of the world, where the ancient and beautiful Algoma City lies. Since
the […]
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience: Workshop footage
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, theatre, video on Dec 1st, 2006
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience (see previous post) has released two videos of their awesome dinosaur puppetry:
Footage from the workshop
Torosaur v. Utahraptor
And here are a couple of stills from their newsletter.
Steg
in the workshop. if you want an idea of HOW BIG this shows going to be, check out the size of the person working […]