Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
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 [...]
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, video on Jun 6th, 2007
John Cox’s exhibition How to Make a Monster has been travelling around Australia for some time now, and at present it’s at the Scienceworks Museum in Melbourne until mid July. John’s work became known with his making of the animal cast in Babe, but he has since been involved in many movies, including Crocodile Dundee [...]
Whipped up yesterday from materials at hand, as a surprise for my eldest’s jungle party.
Posted in animation, art, books, creatures, film, illustration, puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Apr 21st, 2007
(Photo credit: wellingtonany)
Mentioning the Spike Jonze film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are a few days ago reminded me that I had a bunch of WWTA/Sendak links that I collected when I was trying to scrounge information about the film. (As it happens they are keeping things very well under wraps, which is [...]
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, review, theatre on Mar 22nd, 2007
I finally caught up with Walking with Dinosaurs: the Live Experience during its season in Adelaide. The dinosaurs are absolutely fabulous; huge realistic reptiles with fluid movement, thunderous roars, grunts and lowing, and where appropriate, menace. To achieve this live on such a grand scale is impressive, and represents a great pooling of skills in [...]
Posted in creatures, design, make, materials, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Feb 28th, 2007
(Cool festival image by Haylie Michelle)
Over in Western Australia, designer and maker Bryan Woltjen and animateur Karen Hethey have been engaged for the last few months on the huge task of designing and building 8 giant puppet sea creatures for FantiSea, which will be held on 22 March as part of the Esperance Festival [...]
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets on Dec 9th, 2006
(Photo credit: Craig Sillitoe)
Today’s online Sydney Morning Herald has a slideshow of new photos by Craig Sillitoe about the making of Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience with a narration by their Head of Creature Design, Sonny Tilders.
Previously: Workshop footage, Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, theatre, video on Dec 1st, 2006
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience (see previous post) has released two videos of their awesome dinosaur puppetry:
Footage from the workshop
Torosaur v. Utahraptor
And here are a couple of stills from their newsletter.
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in the workshop. if you want an idea of HOW BIG this shows going to be, check out the size of the person working [...]
Posted in creatures, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on May 2nd, 2006
Erth’s impressive Gondwana dinosaur puppets have been doing some roaming street theatre gigs. Here are some photographs of them at WOMAD, Adelaide’s world music festival, in March. These were taken by John King, and are used with his permission.
(copyright: John King)
At Flickr, Georgie Sharp also has two cool photos of her encounter with them. I [...]
You know, if I was a scriptwriter, or puppetry director or TV producer, I would seriously be thinking about a production based around Mimi Kirchner’s wool dolls. Mimi’s latest are these fabulous robots. Can’t you imagine them as the main characters in a show? Could they be some strange new manifestation of the couple in [...]