For your reading pleasure: David Barnett frothing over last night’s broadcast of ‘Keating the Musical’. My favourite bit:
Alexander Downer, dressed as FrankN’Furter from The Rocky Horror Show, is shown as effete. Downer, father of four children and with nothing in his private life to suggest he is anything other than as square as a [...]
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
Another advance in lifelike CGI
Posted in animation, make, puppetry, puppets on Aug 20th, 2008
This woman is a computer generated animation by Image Metrics. Pretty amazing. Though I do wonder if being able to reproduce a real person like this is a good use of time and resources? The Times Online has more details. The makers say 90% of the work is in convincing people that the eyes [...]
Nearly done
Posted in puppetry on Aug 19th, 2008
Finishing up with last detailing.
Pacific School Games bunyip mascot
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, sculpture on Aug 15th, 2008
The Pacific School Games will be held in Canberra this year, from 30 Nov to 6 Dec. About 5000 primary and secondary school students from Australia and Pacific countries will be competing. I made their mascot, a bunyip, which was launched a few weeks ago. Here is a photoset of the making process. I like [...]
Schlooop!
Hmm… Interesting
Posted in puppetry on Aug 13th, 2008
I feel much more inclined to blog off the cuff when I’m using the wordpress app on the iPhone. Photos straight from the phone camera, and disengaging self- imposed conventions like linking and explaining things fully, make it seem a freer and more immediate experience. A bit like the way twitter or other microblogging services [...]
Studio pics
Posted in make, puppetry, puppets, sculpture on Aug 13th, 2008
Photos from my studio yesterday, and the elephant drying by the fire overnight.
Trying to send a photo from a waiting room. This is the iphone pouch I made yesterday. It has a coffee-coloured Sherpa fleece lining.
Testing iphone blogging
Posted in art on Aug 9th, 2008
Testing the wordpress app on my iphone - this is an amazingly cool and beautiful thing!
Bunjil
Posted in art, photography, sculpture on Aug 7th, 2008
In late 2002 on a train in Melbourne I caught a such a fleeting glimpse of this amazing massive eagle sculpture that I almost wondered if I had imagined it. Its air of keeping a brooding watchful eye over the docklands was arresting and exciting, and it was one of the the things that made [...]