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		<title>New face</title>
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		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2010/01/22/new-face/</link>
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		<title>New work continued</title>
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		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2010/01/15/new-work-continued/</link>
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		<title>Experimenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is some new experimental sculptural work I&#8217;m busy on at the moment.
This face is essentially calico over foam.

The following one is foam at the moment, but I am going to try a cracked surface on it.



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		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2010/01/14/experimenting/</link>
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		<title>Gran&#8217;s Bag</title>
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(Photo credit: Tim Raupach @ www.cutflat.net)
There are still a few days left to take your kids to Gran&#8217;s Bag at Tuggeranong Arts Centre. It&#8217;s for preschoolers through to about Year 2, and the season ends on Saturday.  The story is told imaginatively by Chrissie Shaw, and it has an innovative and picaresque quality that comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/12/17/grans-bag/</link>
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		<title>Cross-section wheat seed</title>
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I have some catching up to do on posting about my work projects.
First up is the cross-section wheat seed that I made for CSIRO Plant Industry, for their annual display at Floriade in September. In other years I&#8217;ve made a caterpillar and cross-section flower for them.  The wheat seed is carved out of polystyrene, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/12/06/cross-section-wheat-seed/</link>
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		<title>Interview with CTC&#8217;s Sonny Tilders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC&#8217;s Radio National Artworks program has a great interview with Sonny Tilders who is the creative director at  Creature Technology Company in Melbourne, the company that produced the amazing arena show Walking with Dinosaurs Live, and is now making a giant King Kong for the stage. Exciting stuff.
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		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/12/03/interview-with-ctcs-sonny-tilders/</link>
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		<title>The hobbit by Figurentheater Wilde &amp; Vogel in Seattle</title>
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This is a taste of a German production of the hobbit that Figurentheater Wilde&#38; Vogel and Florian Feisel are taking to Seattle in their first tour to the US.  I&#8217;d love to see this!
The company was founded in 1997 by the puppeteer Michael Vogel (graduate of Department for Puppetry Stuttgart) and the musician Charlotte Wilde [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/12/02/the-hobbit-by-figurentheater-wilde-vogel-in-seattle/</link>
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		<title>Terrapin puppet sale</title>
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(Disclaimer: I have no idea which puppets will be for sale, so please don&#8217;t assume the puppets in the photos here are in the sale)
Terrapin Theatre Company in Hobart is selling off many puppets from its 35 year history and that of its predecessor, Tasmanian Puppet Theatre.
The puppets will be on sale on Wednesday 25 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/11/20/terrapin-puppet-sale/</link>
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		<title>Baleful</title>
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I finished the red bird creature today and started a yellow one. I keep on thinking of this look as baleful, but the dictionary definition has more of a connotation of menace than I&#8217;m reading into it.

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		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/11/11/baleful/</link>
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		<title>A new creature</title>
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Not finished yet.
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		<link>http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/11/10/a-new-creature/</link>
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