Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in creatures, miscellaneous, photographs on Mar 27th, 2006
I happened to notice this tiny baby gecko trapped in a spider’s web outside my studio window yesterday. It was only an inch or so long. At first I thought it was one of the little sleek brown skinks, as we have lots of those, and the gecko’s distinctive pads on its fingers were not [...]
Posted in creatures, design, fun, make, puppetry, puppets on Mar 16th, 2005
Tacky but interesting: this is a huge spider garden spike that I got at the $2 shop the other day. It’s a hand span across, and the connections between its legs and body are fine springs, so that when the spike is jolted the legs have an incidental movement. The best movement you can get [...]