Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in canberra, photographs on Jul 29th, 2007
Just out of Canberra on the Kings Highway to the coast, especially on the part between Queanbeyan and Bungendore, there are lots of teddies and other soft toys nailed and tied to trees. Often they are quite high up, and some of them have been there for some years. Its easy to drive along and […]
Posted in environment, illustration, video on Jul 28th, 2007
I’m taken with this lovely leaf logo which belongs to a new green blog Earth2Tech (a new part of the GigaOm blog network) which will focus on the business side of green and clean technology.
And check out the cool Power of Wind ad produced by Nordpol+ Hamburg for EPURON, a renewable energy company based in […]
Sweet images from Peppa Pig on ABC kids tv yesterday. Peppa and her brother and cousins made some puppets and put on a show for their parents. It’s a made for preschoolers, and I thought it hit the mark very well with skillful scripting and attractively clear images.
Can you hear the world settling into armchairs, sofas and beds, curling up to read Harry Potter?
Dragon is a beautiful animation ad made for United Airlines. It’s made using paper cut-out stop-motion puppets, and you can see the process and team, lead by director, Jamie Caliri, in The Making of Dragon. Caliri also directed the ending animation for Lemony Snicket.
(via Lines and Colours)
While my foot is in a cast I’ve picked up an old knitting project, continuing knitting squares for a blanket. I’ve done about 6 new ones, and I’m up to about 42 squares.
I’ve watched a motley collection of DVDs:
Casino Royale - a complete waste of time, apart from the animation at the beginning which was […]
This lovely creature was made by Maria Gurevich, one of the team at FurryPuppet, who make cool one-of-a kind custom puppets, art dolls and mascots. You can see them all in the gallery section, and also keep up to date with their creations on their blog.
Posted in environment on Jul 14th, 2007
(Illustration credit: Ian Sharpe, Canberra Times)
Michael had an opinion piece about the Great Global Warming Swindle film published in the Canberra Times.
CSIROpod also has a podcast interview with him; here is a direct link.
Posted in books on Jul 14th, 2007
Fear that if you were at Hogwarts you would be in Hufflepuff.
I’m deep into re-reading all the Harry Potters, enjoying them.
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Jul 14th, 2007
(photo credit: jazamarripae)
It’s interesting when you can see a show like Royal de Luxe having an influence on the culture. I think something like that might have been at work in this dog puppet that was at Barcelona’s Món del llibre, an annual fair to promote book reading/purchasing, oriented towards children. According to […]