I’m seeing and liking quite a lot of artwork by Jean Dubuffet here in Paris. This kind of cave of his, called Le Jardin d’hiver, took my fancy, and I spent a while in it. It’s lumpy and bumpy and the lines don’t always go where you might expect them too. The little girl in […]
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The Model Family
Posted in art, design, sculpture, visual art on May 15th, 2007
A 1956 family in model aeroplane kit form, Guy Bottroff’s cool sculpture The Model Family, at the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition in Adelaide this last March. A few more photos here.
The Tale of How
Posted in animation, art, illustration, make, video on Apr 26th, 2007
The Tale of How is a beautiful and intreguing animation, a labour of love by three friends calling themselves the Blackheart Gang, who hail from Cape Town, South Africa. It’s the second part of a larger story they envisage, A Dodo Trilogy. Their ‘making of’ video introduces the makers and explains how they went about […]
Pratt!
Posted in canberra, fun, politics, street art on Apr 23rd, 2007
Ah, yes! The wonderful irony of Canberra Liberal MLA, Steve Pratt, calling in the media to record him heroically scrubbing off graffiti, only to find that it was a legally commissioned work, and now he will be charged with vandalism of public art. It’s pure gold! I will refer you to Ampersand Duck’s full […]
Where the Wild Things Are: link dump
Posted in animation, art, books, creatures, film, illustration, puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Apr 21st, 2007
(Photo credit: wellingtonany)
Mentioning the Spike Jonze film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are a few days ago reminded me that I had a bunch of WWTA/Sendak links that I collected when I was trying to scrounge information about the film. (As it happens they are keeping things very well under wraps, which is […]
I came across a lovely stop motion animation yesterday, the Softlightes Heart Made of Sound. It’s directed and made by an Australian animator, Kris Moyes, who has done some other cool videos, including (Wolfmother’s White Unicorn (defaced), and the The Presets’ Are You the One?.
This caused me to revisit Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, which I […]
Back in September I made a late comment in a discussion thread on Shelley Powers‘ post, Craft/Make. I just want to pull it out and publish it here, and perhaps also on my OPML blog, because I don’t want to lose the thoughts in it.
‘The swap-o-rama-rama and the computer-related stuff were equally exciting at the […]
Oona Tikkaoja’s sculptures
Posted in art, craft, creatures, make, sculpture, visual art on Feb 4th, 2006
I love the look of the sculptures that the Finnish visual artist Oona Tikkaoja makes, in particular her wolf creature and lizard robot killer. They are soft sculpture.
I also think her wooden horses are spectacular. They are beautifully jointed, and immediately conjure up thoughts of the mythical Trojan Horse. Take a look at the […]
Colour-in Canberra: The Suburban Duck
Posted in art, design, illustration, make, street art, visual art on Nov 13th, 2005
At the moment I am painting two traffic control boxes in the Urban Services project ‘Colour-in Canberra’. The first one, The Suburban Duck, is on the corner of Yamba Drive and Kitchener St in Garran, just across the road from the Canberra Hospital. It tells a story from my back garden: about how foxes are […]
The Salmon-Thirty-Salmon
Posted in art, make, visual art on Oct 15th, 2005
The cost of painting a king salmon on the fuselage of an Alaskan Airlines 373 has been roundly criticized, but the image is pretty cool. The designer was Mark Boyle, a Seattle-based wildlife artist who is also a recognized leader in the livery design of commercial aircraft. Alaskan Airlines has some pictures that show […]