Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in art, design, street art, visual art on Sep 18th, 2005
I’m thinking again about the Colour-in Canberra traffic control box designs, as entries are due by the 23rd. The idea is based on a similar project, Artforce, an initiative of Brisbane City Council managed by Queensland Urban Ecology. They have a gallery of their images, and you can see which are regarded as most popular.
Among […]
Posted in fun, illustration, visual art on Aug 21st, 2005
From south eastern Australia, possible evidence that the Flying Spaghetti Monster was known to ancient peoples:
Posted in canberra, design, make, street art, visual art on Aug 19th, 2005
Urban services here in Canberra is running a competition for the opportunity to participate in painting designs on 30 traffic controller boxes around the city. Its a good idea; I hope to put in an entry. The competition was launched a few days ago with the unveiling of this first painted box by Franki Sparke. […]
Posted in design, visual art on Aug 11th, 2005
Its crop circle season in England now; well, from May right through to September. Many of the beautiful photographs of crop circles, such as the one here at Milk Hill, are taken by Steve Alexander. At his site, temporarytemples, you can see images of the latest circles as they appear, as well browse back through […]
Posted in art, design, environment, visual art on Aug 9th, 2005
Analogia has a lovely gallery of large scale sand circle patterns, made on the beaches of San Fransisco. The patterns are made by raking the sand , exposing the wetter, and therefore darker, sand underneath. Phidelity has other images of the same circles, and includes some designs to be considered for future circles. Glen […]
Posted in art, craft, design, illustration, make, visual art on Aug 8th, 2005
I’ve been making a few artist trading cards: an edition of just three. One of them is in exchange for Mimi’s night baby.
Close-ups are here, here, and here.
I find the concept of artist trading cards quite seductive. It must be the idea of miniature art, like stamps and other mailart. But I am also wary […]
Posted in design, visual art on Aug 4th, 2005
Frangipani has a gallery of some beautiful manhole covers in Japan. Some of them are very colourful.
Posted in street art, visual art on Jul 25th, 2005
I do love public and community artwork! A few days ago the Wooster Collective pointed to the public art of Seyed Alavi. There are lots of great projects to browse through, but the Flying Carpet, an aerial view of a 50 mile stretch of the Sacramento River translated into woven carpet, which was made for […]
Posted in make, news, sculpture, visual art on May 5th, 2005
You might have seen pictures in the news of the Prime Minister and his wife dwarfed by a giant platypus, on the occasion of the opening of the Australian Pavilion at the World Expo in Aichi, Japan a couple of weeks ago. It was made by a team assembled by the Melbourne production company, […]
Posted in books, craft, design, illustration, visual art on Apr 22nd, 2005
Meggiecat is a constant source of interesting art-craft-image-related notes. Her link to Japanese Free Clip Art the other day provided this lovely swallowtail butterfly image, for instance.
The designs reminded me of a book called ‘Snow, Wave, Pine:Traditional patterns in Japanese Design’ by Motoji Niwa and Sadao Hibi, which I sometimes page through in the bookshop. […]