Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in media, miscellaneous, newspapers, technology on Jan 7th, 2007
The Fairfax papers are running a curious 3-page story today saying Justice Michael Kirby ‘has been vilified and defamed by fraudsters who have stolen his identity to post offensive material on the popular internet site MySpace,” and implying it is a first case scenario. Good grief, what a beat up!
Is this just lazy or out-of-touch […]
Posted in miscellaneous, news, technology on Dec 9th, 2006
This is a satellite image of the Victorian bushfires from the satellite NOAH/AVHRR at 10.15 am ESDT, on Dec 7 2006 (click on the image to see it full size). It was processed by Edward King from CSIRO’s Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research. The colours indicate green for forest, blue for smoke and cloud, […]
Posted in design, miscellaneous on Jun 30th, 2006
You would think that we cut our finger tips enough for someone to have brought out a bandaid that fits over the top of one’s finger without little raggy ears at the corners, and without having to wrap a second bandaid around the finger to prevent the first one coming off. It’s easy. Here is […]
Posted in media, miscellaneous, news on May 23rd, 2006
I watched the Ch. 9 interview with the two rescued Beaconsfield miners on Sunday night, and far from being bored, was quite fascinated. Some thoughts:
I was rather touched to watch how they were still taking care of each other. If one was struggling to keep his emotions in check, the other stepped in to relate […]
Posted in miscellaneous, news on May 9th, 2006
It’s 5.10 am here in Canberra. I woke up and turned on the radio wondering how the rescue of the trapped miners in Tasmania was going, and was delighted to hear they have been freed from the 1.2 metre cage and cavity that they have been in for the last 14 days, a kilometre deep […]
Posted in creatures, miscellaneous, photographs on Mar 27th, 2006
I happened to notice this tiny baby gecko trapped in a spider’s web outside my studio window yesterday. It was only an inch or so long. At first I thought it was one of the little sleek brown skinks, as we have lots of those, and the gecko’s distinctive pads on its fingers were not […]
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 […]
Posted in fun, miscellaneous on Mar 24th, 2006
There is a curious $150,000 church advertising campaign on in Canberra at the moment. With the tag line ‘I’m not into religion, but I reckon a lot of what Jesus taught is pretty amazing’, it really makes me feel as if the institutional church knows they are up against the wall. Some of the […]
Posted in fun, miscellaneous on Mar 15th, 2006
Artnatomy is a fantastic anatomical facial expression learning tool by Victoria Contreras Flores. Play with
the actions, especially in naturalistic mode. The pout is wonderful. (via Drawn!)
This reminded me of a collection of life casts that I had seen a while ago. Life casts are plaster casts of actors’ faces, made so that makeup artists can […]
Posted in miscellaneous on Mar 14th, 2006
I’ve been distracted by my OPML blog the last week or so; The OPML editor is so nice and off-the-cuff to use that this feels almost ponderous. (The software and hosting are only for evaluation at present, courtesy of Dave Winer - thank you!) so the blog is likely only temporary). Here are some links […]