There are a lot of monsters out there on the web, and I tend to be pretty selective about which I like. Some of Erin Currie’s Cursters I like a lot, particularly the ornate ones, like this or this, or this or this. Erin has an Etsy shop, too.
I hadn’t heard of munnys before seeing the monster above. Interesting to see a cross-over between urban graffiti and stencil art culture and toys.
Disney sure milks every drop out of it’s successes. After first becoming a musical, Finding Nemo – On Ice is about to tour in Australia. It’s quite interesting to see how they have tackled the puppets, however. For a quick overall impression, you can see a range of them on the video linked on this page, and there are some good photos by Conrado4 at Flickr. It seems like I was not the only one to find the idea of ‘finding Nemo on ice’ amusing, and wonder about the placement of the fish eyes.
It’s not so much the repetition of a favourite story that is so depressing about productions like this, but that they have to follow the exact same path and shiny look every time, there are no variables, and it’s all locked in. When my kids were babies I had a similar reaction to Fisher Price activity centres, though I am yet to meet someone who felt the same dislike of them. I see they are now collectable vintage on Ebay.
I’ve written previously about Shan Jayaweera’s John Howard puppetry satires. Now with an election looming later in the year, ‘Australian Prime Minister John Howard needs to find something
new to blame and scare the voters into voting for him’. Follow his efforts in a welcome new series, John Howard – Search for a Scapegoat:
World Unity is crucial to the climate: Michael’s article on climate change as an archetypal tragedy of the commons is in The Age today. Read it – its good stuff!
It turns out my ankle has a fractured bone, so I now have a cast on it for the next six weeks. I hope it will mean more blogging and maybe revamping my website, but much of the time at the moment I’m just feeling like reading and watching DVDs, and doing crosswords and sudokus.
I’m posting some favourite beach photos to celebrate my birthday today. These first two are of Carrickalinga North Bay, alternatively Dame Roma Mitchell Bay, in South Australia, taken by my son, Tim Raupach:
Kids always have favourite colour, but as an adult you often don’t. After years of not having a specific favourite, I realised that this almost-not-there nearly transparent turquoise is mine. I find it almost achingly beautiful.
Then there is this one taken on the wild east coast of Tasmania on the northern beach of Macquarie Heads, looking out to … South Africa. The straight is called Hell’s Gates.
The Australian Broadcasting Commission has again shown it’s willingness to adopt and make the most of new media with it’s shiny new ABC News site. It’s really cool – personalized tagging, great embedded video and audio, and an attractive interface, among other features.
Not the best look when you are coming up to 54. So much for mopping the kitchen floor.
I’ve been offline for a few days, the upshot being our house is now on a wireless network. Of course, there is still an orange and black tangle behind the tele where everything comes into the house to the set-top box. Funny to think that when we had the cable network put in seven years ago when we extended our house, it was the latest and best option. The blue cable has been great, but the wireless network is cool.
Wrlssgrrl looks like a friendly soul, don’t you think?:
I have lots of online catch-up reading to do now, but today I have to make a small and simple 1960’s liner.
