Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in animation, art, illustration, make, video on Apr 26th, 2007
The Tale of How is a beautiful and intreguing animation, a labour of love by three friends calling themselves the Blackheart Gang, who hail from Cape Town, South Africa. It’s the second part of a larger story they envisage, A Dodo Trilogy. Their ‘making of’ video introduces the makers and explains how they went about […]
Posted in animation, performance art, puppetry, puppets, video on Apr 25th, 2007
(photo credit: David Fletcher)
Radio National’s Bush Telegraph has audio of their April 23rd interview with Jillian Pearce (fast forward to the 36 minute mark). Jillian is a performance artist living in Natimuk, the small town at the foot of rock-climbing mecca, Mt Arapiles, in rural Victoria. Jillian and her performing arts company, Y Space, […]
Posted in environment, politics on Apr 25th, 2007
I predict that, fore-going anything out of left field like 9/11, Howard will lose the next election because of his refusal to take global warming seriously. And it will be because the business end of town has already calculated the risks and wants action for their own stability. Businesses, states, unions, industries, universities and ordinary […]
Posted in canberra, fun, politics, street art on Apr 23rd, 2007
Ah, yes! The wonderful irony of Canberra Liberal MLA, Steve Pratt, calling in the media to record him heroically scrubbing off graffiti, only to find that it was a legally commissioned work, and now he will be charged with vandalism of public art. It’s pure gold! I will refer you to Ampersand Duck’s full […]
Posted in books, miscellaneous on Apr 22nd, 2007
Dickens World will open in May. I wonder how it will pan out? And what the state-of-the-art animatronic show is? Wasn’t there someone developing a virtual world, a la Second Life, based on Dickens, or did I dream it up? I can’t find it on Google.
Amy gives us an interpretive reading of a 1907 text […]
Posted in books, illustration, video on Apr 21st, 2007
Actually, my favourite Sendak picture book is In the Night Kitchen. I love the illustration, the cityscape made from kitchen packets and utensils, the dreamlike whimsy of it, and Mickey’s confidence. Above all, I like the part where he models the dough into a plane:
What better way to describe how you go about the creative […]
Posted in animation, art, books, creatures, film, illustration, puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Apr 21st, 2007
(Photo credit: wellingtonany)
Mentioning the Spike Jonze film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are a few days ago reminded me that I had a bunch of WWTA/Sendak links that I collected when I was trying to scrounge information about the film. (As it happens they are keeping things very well under wraps, which is […]
Posted in miscellaneous, news, politics on Apr 21st, 2007
Doctor making her mark: an encouraging piece about a program that is creating awareness and a platform for culture change in attitudes towards women within the Australian Footbal League. A similar program has been implemented by National Rugby League:
KAREN WILLIS: The NRL has said, “We don’t accept violence against women, and we think this is […]
Posted in politics on Apr 17th, 2007
The US government should get real and implement strict gun control. I’m not holding my breath though.
Posted in miscellaneous, news on Apr 17th, 2007
Here are three biology-related stories that I have found interesting in the last few days.
Great Turtle Race: up-beat site championing action to save the critically endangered leatherback turtles. The turtles have been tagged and you can monitor online their swim from Costa Rica to The Galapagos Islands. Only 59 turtles came to the beach this […]