Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Quite a lot of buildings have different stonework up the sides like this. We guess there is a difference in heat resistance because the dark bricks always lead to the chimneys, and often in interesting patterns. I love the seeing all the chimneys when you look up or out across the city skyline. Places listed on the local real estate shop, simetimes give the number of chimneys.
This is the local RER underpass in Bourg-la-Reine. It is getting very familiar, as we walk it numerous times a day! It interests me that the stones, while still irregular, can all be made to look five-sided.
Aug 21st, 2008 by hil
For your reading pleasure: David Barnett frothing over last night’s broadcast of ‘Keating the Musical’. My favourite bit:
Alexander Downer, dressed as FrankN’Furter from The Rocky Horror Show, is shown as effete. Downer, father of four children and with nothing in his private life to suggest he is anything other than as square as a butter-box…
I’d never heard that euphemism before!
…how ironic it is that the Liberals are in the process of organising an orderly transition of leadership from Brendan Nelson to Peter Costello, along the lines of the transition by agreement from Bill Hayden to Bob Hawke. Not one like the brutal coup arranged by the stabber, Paul Keating, to serve his own ambitions.
I wonder if this is an insider view, considering Barnett is Prue Goward’s partner?
Keating! the musical is no joke, and the question it invites must be taken seriously: where does all this hatred come from?
An absolute mystery, isn’t it? Continue Reading »
Aug 20th, 2008 by hil
This woman is a computer generated animation by Image Metrics. Pretty amazing. Though I do wonder if being able to reproduce a real person like this is a good use of time and resources? The Times Online has more details. The makers say 90% of the work is in convincing people that the eyes are real, lending even more weight to what puppet makers and lovers know about the eyes being the window to the soul.
Previously: Uncanny Valley
Aug 19th, 2008 by hil
Finishing up with last detailing.
Aug 15th, 2008 by hil
The Pacific School Games will be held in Canberra this year, from 30 Nov to 6 Dec. About 5000 primary and secondary school students from Australia and Pacific countries will be competing. I made their mascot, a bunyip, which was launched a few weeks ago. Here is a photoset of the making process. I like the way its tail waggles the best:
Aug 13th, 2008 by hil
I feel much more inclined to blog off the cuff when I’m using the wordpress app on the iPhone. Photos straight from the phone camera, and disengaging self- imposed conventions like linking and explaining things fully, make it seem a freer and more immediate experience. A bit like the way twitter or other microblogging services replace some of one’s aggregator reading.
Aug 13th, 2008 by hil
Photos from my studio yesterday, and the elephant drying by the fire overnight.
