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 […]
Monthly Archive for June, 2007
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 […]
Search for a Scapegoat
Posted in politics, puppetry, puppets, video on Jun 27th, 2007
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:
Episode 1: Howard […]
Climate change is a tragedy of the commons
Posted in environment on Jun 25th, 2007
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!
Dreaming of turquoise and beaches
Posted in photographs on Jun 25th, 2007
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 […]
Go the ABC!
Posted in media, news, technology on Jun 22nd, 2007
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.
Hmmm
Posted in miscellaneous on Jun 22nd, 2007
Not the best look when you are coming up to 54. So much for mopping the kitchen floor.
Goodbye blue cable network, welcome wrlssgrrl
Posted in pareidolia, technology on Jun 19th, 2007
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 […]
Backyard creatures
Posted in creatures, fun, pareidolia on Jun 16th, 2007
Yesterday morning I looked out to find 18 king parrots in my garden! There were also a trio of young crimson rosellas, and a pair of eastern rosellas. At first they were in a tree, looking like bright red decorations. This is a king and an eastern (smaller):
Today there was a strange animal nosing around […]