Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in art, music, photography, video, visual art on Jun 2nd, 2008
Now playing - strange trajectories, the 2007 ANU School of Art Emerging Artist Support Theme (EASS) award exhibition currently on at the Alliance Francaise in Canberra, is featuring the work of Michal Glickson (painting) and Anna Madeleine (photomedia). Anna is my daughter. She has two cool new video art pieces in this exhibition. She has […]
Mary Black and Shane Howard’s lovely duet version of his song Flesh and Blood. It was replayed on Rockwiz (SBS) last night.
I came across a lovely stop motion animation yesterday, the Softlightes Heart Made of Sound. It’s directed and made by an Australian animator, Kris Moyes, who has done some other cool videos, including (Wolfmother’s White Unicorn (defaced), and the The Presets’ Are You the One?.
This caused me to revisit Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, which I […]
Posted in music, photographs, puppetry, puppets on Sep 30th, 2006
(photo credit: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid)
Laughing Squid is one of my long time favourite blogs; I enjoy the mix of tech and visual arts, and Scott Beale’s photos. Today Scott has the best photos of Beck’s puppets I’ve seen yet, taken at Yahoo! Hack Day.
(Photo by Special P)
Like Jose, I’ve been interested in the puppets that formed part of Beck’s concert at the the Sasquatch Festival in Royal Gorge, Washington on Memorial Day. Previously, they had appeared at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and in Davis (there is an itinerary there). According to the SFGate Culture Blog, Beck hired […]
Speaking of the Man of Steel, here is a video of Land of Confusion, by Phil Collins and Genesis, from 1986.
Oh Superman where are you now
When everything’s gone wrong somehow
The Man of Steel, these men of power
Are losing control by the hour
As well as the music and the political nature of the song, it’s also […]
Posted in music, photographs on Apr 21st, 2006
I’ve just got around to making a Flickr set of photos of the Thredbo Blues Festival in January. Thredbo is one of the skiing resorts in the Snowy Mountains up near Mt Kosciusko, but in summer the blues festival takes over the village, casual and cool, for a weekend. The highlight for us was seeing […]
Posted in music on Sep 27th, 2005
You know when you hear something that sends tingles up the back of your neck? This is one of those - Ray Lamontagne’s song Trouble. I also found it as a video.
I’ve had two other such experiences recently. One was Antony and the Johnsons‘ song Fistful of Love. The snippet you hear there is mostly […]