Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in UNIMA, creatures, mask, performance art, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Apr 7th, 2008
A mindblowing day at the puppet carnival: see my Flickr photoset for heaps more photos; I’ve just chosen a few here. Also Naomi and Gary have more, too, each a different take :). As far as I can see its just the three of us blogging from Unima 2008.
Cheryl Linnaker’s Yawaru gecko
Joan Baixas’ masterclass present […]
Posted in UNIMA, creatures, fun, mask, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Apr 4th, 2008
Students from the Edith Cowan University Contemporary Performers Group, lead by Deborah Hunt entertained the lunchtime crowds in James Place, Perth, yesterday, as part of the UNIMA Worl Puppetry Festival. These made my day! By chance there was a busker playing, and they worked their activities in around what he was playing.
More photos in my […]
Posted in environment, make, mask, puppets on Mar 29th, 2008
These penguin masks, being worn outside the UN Framework of Climate Change Conference in Bali last November, interested me because I liked the way the coarse gauze was so effective, while not hiding the faces. The photo is taken from our newspaper at the time, via Associated Press.
I’ve always thought a cool way of making […]
Posted in creatures, make, mask, puppetry, puppets, tutorial on Nov 4th, 2007
Missmonster at Instructables details how she made her fabulous, scary and very furry werewolf costume. This photo is pre-fur!
(via Puppetbuilding.com)
The GreensBlog has some politician masks you can download and print. They were intended for halloween, but, you know, they might come in handy in the next few weeks!
Here in Canberra this time around we have a unique opportunity to alter the balance of power in the Senate immediately. The Coalition parties hold 20 of […]
The Eye of Sauron goes off to a villian’s party!
Posted in make, mask, photographs, photography, politics, portfolio on Feb 16th, 2007
An action shot of Joh Bjelke-Peterson welcoming guests to the launch of the Campaign - Federal Elections exhibition at Old Parliament House yesterday! Here is a slightly clearer one of him with Malcolm Fraser. Old Parliament House had a collection of the photographic masks of politicians, but I was asked to make the cartoon Joh […]
Posted in mask, politics, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Sep 19th, 2005
Last week an American non-violent activist, Scott Parkin, was arrested and removed from Australia, after having his visa revoked. The Federal Attorney-General, Ruddock, said that the Minister for Immigration, Vanstone, revoked Parkin’s
visa based on an ASIO Security assessment. “I understand the decision was based upon a security assessment, and security assessments are notsomething about which […]
Posted in craft, make, mask, materials, portfolio on Jun 30th, 2005
Dave Riley is a mask-maker, puppeteer and playwright based in Brisbane. His Mask Studio tutorials have been of great help to me a number of times - thanks Dave! There are two mask tutorials:
Easy mask making using cheap plastic originals (creating a serviceable neutral mask from a cheap plastic model, and then making it into […]