Lea Redmond’s Leafcutter Designs conceptual art projects, which tend to the miniature and whimsical, include matchbox theatre kits with teeny tiny matchstick puppets!
No one as Irish as Barack Obama
iPhone art
Some of the things you can do on the iPhone just seem like magic to me. This image is drawn on the iPhone screen with my finger, using the Brushes app. It’s taking me a while to get some finesse, but the Brushes Gallery pool at Flickr is ample proof that it is possible.
(btw, Ocarina has been the most jaw-droppingly magic app for me so far.)
Kenny Koala
Constable Kenny Koala has been working out over summer and is looking like a new koala! Do you like his spiffy new jacket and cap? Kenny is a much loved community liason officer with the Australian Federal Police, and has been educating children in Canberra on a range of crime prevention and child safety messages for the last 25 years or more.
3D Illustration
Chris Sickels at Red Nose Studio makes real figures and scenarios that are then photographed to produce cool 3D illustrations for papers, magazines and books. The 3D illustration above is his cover for Cory Doctorow’s story The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away. Before seeing this I had thought of 3D illustration as more a virtual rendering process. In this real form it is closely, and interestingly, allied to my work making puppets and props. I recently had a picture of my 3D fail whale published as an illustration in the Japanese computer magazine WEB+DB PRESS. I suppose that is fairly close – the only difference is in your intention when you start making an object?
(via @LolaLulu)
Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
I’ve been nurturing the single leaf that my rhubarb plant (that I previously thought had died) put up a couple of weeks ago. This morning, after a couple of great storms and heavy downpours, look at the beautifully scrunched up second leaf emerging!
Erth: The Nargun and the Stars
I wanted to see Erth‘s lastest production, The Nargun and the Stars, at the Sydney Festival last week, but somehow didn’t make it. I have fond memories of the book, written by Patricia Wrightson, and the puppets, designed by Bryony Anderson, look great. The show is now heading for a 2-week season at the Perth International Arts Festival 2009, starting in mid February; so I hope some time it will come to Canberra.
Spoonflower
I’ve been aware of Spoonflower for quite a while; it’s such a good idea to extend printing on demand to fabric as well as books and paper.
Where the Wild Things Are!
Here are some first glimpses of the Wild Things from Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. They feature on a limited series of skateboards made by the company that Jonze co-founded, Girl Skateboards Company. In a previous post there is a link to an article about the making of the creatures, and their filming on the Mornington Peninsular in Victoria.
(via Puppets in Melbourne, PuppetVision and /film)
