I’ve just finished making a second replica silver seal box, known as a skippet, for the National Archives of Australia. I made the first one (above) earlier this year. They are used as hands-on items in the National Archives Charters of our Nation exhibition. Making the skippet was an interesting and challenging project because […]
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
PMS monster
Posted in animation on Oct 27th, 2007
Amy reminded me of this today, my PMS monster, from October 1997, ten years ago. In the past in more ways than one! If I remember right, I did the drawings and Amy animated it. I didn’t know how to, or even how to put things online then.
Shock-headed magnetism
Posted in fun, pareidolia, puppetry on Oct 18th, 2007
This is what I was imagining when I saw Amy’s post about Al Gore Rhythms, and the accompanying image of iron filings! My pareidolia inclinations are compulsive. I hadn’t made the direct connection between what I was wanting to see, and Woolly Willy, but surely it was just below there in the subconscious from […]
Handy way of looking at the odds
Posted in environment, video on Oct 16th, 2007
This guy explains it well.
(via Mary Robinette Kowal)
Leunigology
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre, visual art on Oct 13th, 2007
(Photo credit: Cheryl Lawrie)
I’m kicking myself for missing Born in a Taxi’s The Boat of Faith street theatre act at Floriade. It was created for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and is based on Michael Leunig’s whimsical cartoon characters Mr Curly and his direction finding duck, old favourites of mine. Bryony Anderson was the […]
This is a snippet of the sizzling action in Philip Millar’s Puppetvison show Tyrannosaurous Sex sex which is on at the Northcote Fringe Festival until 13 October, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. I’ve seen this - its terrific! Puppetvision is also presenting Tadpole and Pure Puppet Palava, which means you have a good […]
Beware the drop bears are, and she was
Posted in puppetry on Oct 11th, 2007
HighWire’s (and my) drop bears debuted at Floriade this last Monday, and they will be roaming the gardens until the end of festival this weekend. They emerge during the hours of 11 through 3, and seem to like hanging around in the bushes to the west of the Stage 88 grassy area, but remember to […]
Perfect avoidance
Posted in technology on Oct 10th, 2007
I signed up to the local Freecycling mailing list today thinking it might be a good way to pass on some old household stuff. My heart sank when I saw it was a Yahoo groups list. I find Yahoo awkward to use - I seem to be asked to sign in at every click […]
Play me something …
Posted in animation, visual art on Oct 10th, 2007
My daughter, Anna Raupach, has put some of her cool animations online! They belong to a body of work focusing on youth and music culture which she has been developing during her honours year at the ANU School of Art. As a finished piece, these and others will show on 9 big screens, flowing and […]
Anything for an angle
Posted in media, newspapers on Oct 10th, 2007
I haven’t caught up with the whole conversation yet, but today I’ve been reading Danah Boyd’s posts on Facebook and controlling ones public appearance. I’m pretty wary of Facebook for a variety of reasons, but retain a curiosity about the impact it is having and might yet have.
But by coincidence I then turned to today’s […]