Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in creatures, design, make, materials, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Feb 28th, 2007
(Cool festival image by Haylie Michelle)
Over in Western Australia, designer and maker Bryan Woltjen and animateur Karen Hethey have been engaged for the last few months on the huge task of designing and building 8 giant puppet sea creatures for FantiSea, which will be held on 22 March as part of the Esperance Festival […]
Posted in miscellaneous on Feb 20th, 2007
Waxing sentimental over first transistor radios and other devices.
Posted in canberra, environment, photographs on Feb 20th, 2007
We have had some amazing clouds over Canberra recently. These mammatus clouds rolled over our place last Saturday evening at sunset.
Posted in make, mask, photographs, photography, politics, portfolio on Feb 16th, 2007
An action shot of Joh Bjelke-Peterson welcoming guests to the launch of the Campaign - Federal Elections exhibition at Old Parliament House yesterday! Here is a slightly clearer one of him with Malcolm Fraser. Old Parliament House had a collection of the photographic masks of politicians, but I was asked to make the cartoon Joh […]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Feb 16th, 2007
Today I came across this photo of a giant boy marionette, taken in Sydney’s CBD in late January. It’s very much like Royal de Luxe’s little giantess (who has been visiting Santiago, Chile, in the company of a rhinoceros) but I doubt he is theirs. Does anyone know the film company, or what production they […]
Posted in photographs on Feb 14th, 2007
These are are some of the beautiful spotted gum trees where we sometimes stay at Guerilla Bay.
Posted in canberra, politics, puppetry, puppets on Feb 11th, 2007
Last Tuesday I went to the David Hicks rally at Parliament House. I don’t much like going to protests, but sometimes you just have to? I wasn’t sure whether to take my vigil puppet, because although I knew he would attract attention, I didn’t want to imply that I thought it was a okay to […]