http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog Hilary Talbot's passing interests and activities Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:53:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the moment I'm entranced with drawing on my iPhone, mostly playing with the Brushes and Paintbook apps. My full set of iPhone drawings is here. With Brushes I'm presently evolving some strange creatures in a strange environment. Above you can see the Hedgehogerus surprised,  the Hedgehogerus nest and fairy, ... http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/07/02/iphone-art-the-hedgehogerus-other-flights-of-fancy/ InFrame.tv has produced a great 5 minute documentary with Shaun Tan which offers an introductory glimpse at the work-in-progress on his short animated adaptation of  The Lost Thing. It includes little (unfinished) animation clips, and aspects of designing and directing the work. On his website Shaun also writes ... http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/07/01/first-glimpse-of-animation-adaptation-of-shaun-tans-the-lost-thing/ On FriendFeed today Amy today pointed to a British House of Commons debate about trying to save traditional crafts. I rather fear it is a lost cause. The upsurge in crafting and making in the last few years driven by the web is great in many respects, but I suspect ... http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/06/29/saving-traditional-crafts-and-records-of-them/ Yes, I know now that this has been all over the web, but I only saw it today: Tubbypaws's papercraft Ceiling Cat. http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/06/09/awesome-papercraft-ceiling-cat/ (photo credits and thanks: zetavares) This fabulous giant Pinóquio puppet premiered last weekend at the Imaginarious Festival in Santa Maria da Feira in a street theatre production called The fantastic history of a child called Pinóquio by the theatre company Trigo Limpo ACERT. They come from Tondela, a small town in ... http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/06/07/trigo-limpo-acerts-cool-giant-pinoquio-puppet/ This cute Sesame Street style video won both the Critics' Choice and People's Choice awards in the ACS Nanotation NanoTube 'What is Nano?' competition for a video tutorial about nanotechnology. It was a 'collaborative effort by a group of researchers from University of California, Berkeley including Patrick Bennett, David ... http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/06/03/the-nano-song-puppets-explain-nanotechnology/ Andrew Bird - Lull (daytrotter version): cool music, interesting shadow puppetry and animation. (via Loobylu Tumbles) http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/05/25/lull/ I always meant to do a post on the Institute of Figuring when I first came across it a few years ago, but now you can just watch Margaret Wertheim herself  explaining the beautiful maths of coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry in this great talk at TED. http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/05/22/margaret-wertheim-at-ted/ Twitter has now developed and then taken away three functions that made it exciting for me to use. 1. Track was taken away a year ago. Only some of us tasted it, but it was da bomb. Twitter knows. 2. SMS notification was taken away from Australians (and some other non-US countries) ... http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/05/14/fun-fun-fun-til-twitter-took-the-t-bird-away/ This is the big dead manta ray prop that I made for the Street Theatre's production of Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris.  Sadly Desirée - my name for her  - was cut from the final production, but I loved making her.  Manta rays are such ... http://spiritsdancing.com/sdblog/2009/05/13/desiree-my-dear-dead-manta-ray/