Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in environment, make, mask, puppets on Mar 29th, 2008
These penguin masks, being worn outside the UN Framework of Climate Change Conference in Bali last November, interested me because I liked the way the coarse gauze was so effective, while not hiding the faces. The photo is taken from our newspaper at the time, via Associated Press.
I’ve always thought a cool way of making […]
Posted in politics, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 26th, 2004
Here’s another election campaign protest involving large puppetry: Snuff Puppets took the form of one of their large Skull characters holding a jumbo jet to confront Howard and accuse him of creating terrorism.
The Skull originated as a character in the highly acclaimed Snuff Puppets production ‘Scarey’, ‘the story of a travelling troupe of giant puppets, […]
Posted in canberra, creatures, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, street theatre, visual art on Oct 17th, 2004
Here are some pictures of a few other things that took my fancy at Floriade - I like the roving entertainment more than the massed European flowers.
There was a rainbow serpent swimming in Nerang Pool, designed and created by Aeon Mortimer. Its a big inflatable, and apparently it can spray a fine mist of water […]
Posted in canberra, performance art, politics, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 16th, 2004
Floriade has been on for the last month in Canberra, and tomorrow is the last day. I went in last weekend hoping to see the Old Parliament House Big Heads. These are much-larger-than-life-sized body-suit puppets of parliamentarians from days gone by. Their usual home is Old Parliament House, which is now a parliamentary museum, where […]
Posted in politics, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Sep 20th, 2004
I’m in the same mind set as a net friend who recently said that he just wanted the electioneering to be over and to be able to cast his vote with grim determination. So I’m trying to let most of it pass me by. But the appearence of protestors in body suits added a couple […]