Spirits Dancing

A mindblowing day at the puppet carnival: see my Flickr photoset for heaps more photos; I’ve just chosen a few here. Also Naomi and Gary have more, too, each a different take :). As far as I can see its just the three of us blogging from Unima 2008.

Cheryl Linnaker’s Yawaru gecko

Joan Baixas’ masterclass present the ‘Great Laughing Mutant Project’

Hersute Monsiour Telefon, the puppet I put in the Million Puppet Project

Trans Faunas by Swerve Association

Perhaps one of the creatures by Edith Cowan University Contemporary Performing group?

Murphy’s Puppets Allenby’s FAMOUS Flea Circus

Swerve Association’s sheep

My attendence at Unima 2008 is supported by the ACT Government

Tags: mask, million puppets project, perth, puppetry, puppets, street theatre, UNIMA, unima 2008, world puppetry festival

Students from the Edith Cowan University Contemporary Performers Group, lead by Deborah Hunt entertained the lunchtime crowds in James Place, Perth, yesterday, as part of the UNIMA Worl Puppetry Festival. These made my day! By chance there was a busker playing, and they worked their activities in around what he was playing.

More photos in my Flickr photoset.

My attendence at Unima 2008 is supported by the ACT Government

Tags: mask, perth, puppetry, puppets, street theatre, UNIMA, world puppetry festival

The GreensBlog has some politician masks you can download and print. They were intended for halloween, but, you know, they might come in handy in the next few weeks!

Here in Canberra this time around we have a unique opportunity to alter the balance of power in the Senate immediately. The Coalition parties hold 20 of the 40 seats in the Senate, and it only requires the loss of one of their seats to a progressive to bring some accountability back to the Senate. In the ACT we can do that immediately if only 11,000 people change their vote to a progressive one in the Senate. GetUp! is running a campaign and unique multi-party ad to this effect.

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The Eye of Sauron goes off to a villian’s party!

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An action shot of Joh Bjelke-Peterson welcoming guests to the launch of the Campaign – Federal Elections exhibition at Old Parliament House yesterday! Here is a slightly clearer one of him with Malcolm Fraser. Old Parliament House had a collection of the photographic masks of politicians, but I was asked to make the cartoon Joh last week.

The exhibition itself consists of photos by Andrew Chapman; you can see some of them here. They are wonderful ‘fly on the wall’ glimpses of electioneering politicians and political events from the Fraser years onwards. I was most amused by the ones of Beazley, because he so often looked like a jovial dag, but others were arresting.

Tags: joh blelke-peterson, mask, old parliament house, photography, politics