On Monday a friend showed us a few sites around Perth. This was a decorative metal plate in the aerial walkway at King’s Park that took my fancy. I wished I had paper and a crayon so that I could have done a rubbing of it! A lot of the paths around the Park were [...]
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FantiSea: Giant sea creatures in Esperance
Posted in creatures, design, make, materials, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Feb 28th, 2007
(Cool festival image by Haylie Michelle)
Over in Western Australia, designer and maker Bryan Woltjen and animateur Karen Hethey have been engaged for the last few months on the huge task of designing and building 8 giant puppet sea creatures for FantiSea, which will be held on 22 March as part of the Esperance Festival [...]
Plea for a fingertip bandaid
Posted in design, miscellaneous on Jun 30th, 2006
You would think that we cut our finger tips enough for someone to have brought out a bandaid that fits over the top of one’s finger without little raggy ears at the corners, and without having to wrap a second bandaid around the finger to prevent the first one coming off. It’s easy. Here is [...]
Laura Zindel ceramics: “Crazy old Uncle Larry bought that peculiar spider platter, and we just can’t seem to part with it”, I would like to be a part of that.’ Lovely ceramic crockery patterned with snakes, spiders, insects. I love these bottles.
(via whip up)
The Theft of Sita
Posted in books, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Nov 23rd, 2005
(Photograph: Julian Crouch)
PuppetVision recently referred to The Modern Shadow where Michelle Zacharia is exploring combining Indonesian Wayang Golek puppetry and video and digital production techniques, and thinking about western influences in Indonesia. It reminded me of a production here called The Theft of Sita which was commissioned by the 2000 Adelaide Festival of Arts and [...]
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 [...]
Artforce designs
Posted in art, design, street art, visual art on Sep 18th, 2005
I’m thinking again about the Colour-in Canberra traffic control box designs, as entries are due by the 23rd. The idea is based on a similar project, Artforce, an initiative of Brisbane City Council managed by Queensland Urban Ecology. They have a gallery of their images, and you can see which are regarded as most popular.
Among [...]
Colour-in Canberra
Posted in canberra, design, make, street art, visual art on Aug 19th, 2005
Urban services here in Canberra is running a competition for the opportunity to participate in painting designs on 30 traffic controller boxes around the city. Its a good idea; I hope to put in an entry. The competition was launched a few days ago with the unveiling of this first painted box by Franki Sparke. [...]
Crop Circles Photographs: Steve Alexander
Posted in design, visual art on Aug 11th, 2005
Its crop circle season in England now; well, from May right through to September. Many of the beautiful photographs of crop circles, such as the one here at Milk Hill, are taken by Steve Alexander. At his site, temporarytemples, you can see images of the latest circles as they appear, as well browse back through [...]
Japanese Manhole Cover Patterns
Posted in design, visual art on Aug 4th, 2005
Frangipani has a gallery of some beautiful manhole covers in Japan. Some of them are very colourful.