Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
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 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 make, photographs, portfolio on Mar 19th, 2006
I’m getting quite fond of this little leafcutter ant I made recently. (It’s only about 15 cm long). I might get to make some big ones later this year.
Posted in craft, photographs, tutorial on Mar 9th, 2006
Of ‘full, woolly, activity-unfriendly thumbs’ in knitted mittens, Tanya Ewing at Moose on the Loose says ‘Quite frankly I won’t use them.’ Quite right! Tanya has the all-important recipe for how to put a flip top in your thumb on her page of knitting patterns, Homegrown recipes for woolly items, which also includes a simple [...]
Posted in art, photographs, photography on Mar 6th, 2006
This wonderful photo of a hill somewhere near Omarama, South Island, Aotearoa/New Zealand is from Cutflat, Tim Raupach’s new photoblog site. His photos were previously here.
Tim takes some breathtakingly beautiful shots, as well as looking at things from unusual angles and with a humorous eye. He is also a rockclimber, and - a disclaimer! [...]
Posted in photographs on Jan 20th, 2006
On the back of a door in the women’s toilet in a roadhouse just outside Balranald, NSW:
Posted in photographs on Jan 19th, 2006
There ought to be a word for the reticence I feel about jumping back into the online world after some time away. It’s so strange, because I mostly love the online life, and I am brimful of things I want to blog about. So to break the ice, here is an early morning photo from [...]
Posted in canberra, photographs, photography on Nov 9th, 2005
A bunch of local tertiary students had an installation of dovecots at Floriade this year. I was really happy with this photo of one of the dovecots.
It reminds me of that lovely William Carlos Williams poem, ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Or even Dylan’s ‘Buckets of Rain’:
Little red wagon
Little red [...]
Posted in illustration, photographs, technology on Oct 5th, 2005
I like the old stonework and bluest of blues in Oxford Blue, a photo by Robert Silverwood. And it reminds me of my Cyber Hall drawing which was to be a virtual Union building site map for the Indiana Uninversity Alumnii Association. It was my friend Amy’s initiative, and we worked closely together on it, [...]
Posted in make, photographs, photography, portfolio on Aug 27th, 2005