Twitter digest 2011-07-08

Posted by hil
  • Nice find by @PuppetVision: Etsy Process video of Geahk Burchill skillfully making a marionette. http://t.co/v7wllUL #
  • Windmill prop successfully set up at the museum this arvo, ready for their school holiday program that starts next week. Forgot my camera! #
  • Been quite a while since I last went to the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes website. It seems much more usable now. #
  • The incipient Charleville-Mézières puppet festival has an app: Le Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes http://t.co/fVYuDBI. #
  • Crazy singing bird pistols http://t.co/jh4NEeH #
  • Streep as Thatcher http://t.co/udu9tEC (via @JudexJones) looks promising, but agree with side article the humour jars. http://t.co/BCLmEdC #
  • Truck has just picked up the pieces of the 3 metre windmill prop I've been making. I head over to the museum later to assemble it there. #
  • I hadn't seen a visualisation quite like this before – meshing interactive word clouds & twitter search re NoTW http://t.co/cxdoyyK #
  • Enjoyed this video: Nick Davies on the Murdoch NoTW story: about the power elite, and Murdoch's loss of power. http://t.co/oRuCytR #

Crazy singing bird pistols

Posted by hil

So many strange things to consider when looking at these at these – craftsmanship, opulence, ironies regarding guns and birds, what will the buyer do with them apart from keeping them…

(via @kottke)

Twitter digest 2011-07-06

Posted by hil
  • Nice idea: turning windows into touch screens http://t.co/LZ4wbJJ #
  • Eerily prescient piece from the Onion, 2001 – Bush: Our long national nightmare of Peace & Prosperity is Finally Over
    http://t.co/4KlGGyo #

Twitter digest 2011-07-05

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  • Lovely mesmerising patterns made with leaves, shells etc by Kangaroo Island artist Janine Mackintosh. http://t.co/MYiwwpT #
  • Trailer for @deadpuppets The Harbinger has teasing glimpse of an awesome big puppet… wish I could see more! http://t.co/fN4CQFl #
  • Sad to see Amazon buy The Book Depository – there goes the free international book shipping I'd guess. http://t.co/r74E5iT #
  • Book now for school holiday shows of Flotsam & Jetsam at The Street in Canberra, 11-16 July. I did the set last year: http://t.co/4JzZoBR #
  • Beautiful large wire frame sculptures by Jaume Plensa at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK. http://t.co/BqfxC09 #

Twitter digest 2011-07-04

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Twitter digest 2011-07-03

Posted by hil
  • If you set aside the MSM fear angle of this report, these little flip books look interesting & cute. http://t.co/DtapqUt #
  • A blistering article… “@Amyloo: Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann Give Birth to Hooters Democracy http://t.co/S7Qhqhr” #

Twitter digest 2011-07-02

Posted by hil
  • Err, an art project of intentionally flawed goods commissioned from various factory workers around world. http://t.co/TkBJICe (via @kottke) #