Whipped up yesterday from materials at hand, as a surprise for my eldest’s jungle party.
Category Archive for 'fun'
Terry at Bent Objects makes these lovely whimsical figures and scenes with wire and everyday objects. They remind me of the wire figues in Calder’s Circus, and I can imagine them being brought to life as puppetry.
(via Craft Magazine)
That one!
Posted in environment, fun on May 13th, 2007
I want one of these hybrid electric bikes. Seriously.
Then there’s the George Bush Solar Powered Walking Chariot! The robotic rollerblading leg movement is very good.
(via Celcias)
Pratt!
Posted in canberra, fun, politics, street art on Apr 23rd, 2007
Ah, yes! The wonderful irony of Canberra Liberal MLA, Steve Pratt, calling in the media to record him heroically scrubbing off graffiti, only to find that it was a legally commissioned work, and now he will be charged with vandalism of public art. It’s pure gold! I will refer you to Ampersand Duck’s full [...]
Penguin books beat Time to the punch on focusing on you, the user. They have a series of classic books with blank covers, so you can do the cover illustration yourself. It’s a cool idea, and I might buy the Woolf or Austen if I saw one, but I’m not really tempted. However, it has [...]
A bit of nonsense for halloween
Posted in craft, fun, make, technology on Oct 31st, 2006
Espresso coffee hats
Posted in craft, design, fun, make, materials, performance art, portfolio, street theatre, video on Oct 21st, 2006
Making these fun hats was another of my Floriade projects. I enjoyed making them and was really happy with how they turned out. They were made for the performance group The Bunch of Posers, who in this guise are called Acappellacino.
To make them I started out by making the cup shape upside down, with a [...]
Pemberley is 10 years old
Posted in art, fun, illustration on Jul 24th, 2006
I decided to put up my old anniversary graphics in my Pemberley Image Gallery, to mark the decade since Amy started the Jane Austen site, Pemberley on 22 July, 1996. I put up some others while I was there, so its a sizeable gallery now. I also put in some keepsake graphics which haven’t been [...]
Availabot is funny. The push puppet lives on!
Follow-up to my mash-up post
Posted in fun, miscellaneous on Mar 27th, 2006
A friend told me that a Sydney church had already jumped on the bandwagon. I googled, I goggled, I gonquered:
I encourage them to go the whole hog and adopt my script (we can come to some arrangement) for a full-blown national media campaign. Mine has the distinct advantage of avoiding pointing the finger of blame [...]