{"id":101,"date":"2005-05-06T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2015-07-26T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T06:20:09","slug":"kamon233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/05\/06\/kamon233\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamon&#038;#233"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/kamone1.jpg\" alt=\"Kamone1\" title=\"Kamone1\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" \/>Oh yeah, the World EXPO also has a pavilion mascot, a platypus called <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060824055026\/http:\/\/www.expo2005.com.au\/content.asp?ln=en&amp;cID=68\">Kamon\u00e9<\/a>. She was designed by Melbourne-based illustrator, artist, toy designer and storyteller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarygirl.com\">Nathan Jurevicius<\/a>, best known for his Scarygirl series of toys, comics and products.<\/p>\n<p>The drawings are pretty cool and there are various versions of her: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060819131801\/http:\/\/expo2005.com.au\/images\/mascots180\/mascot1.png\">dancing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060819131707\/http:\/\/expo2005.com.au\/images\/mascots180\/mascot3.png\">just herself<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060824080150\/http:\/\/www.expo2005.com.au\/images\/mascots180\/mascot2.png\">in a long dress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060820110559\/http:\/\/www.expo2005.com.au\/images\/mascots180\/mascot4.png\">playing soccer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060823031450\/http:\/\/www.expo2005.com.au\/images\/mascots180\/mascot5.png\">with ipod and backpack<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060823032730\/http:\/\/www.expo2005.com.au\/images\/mascots180\/mascot6.png\">with tote and pencil<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060821170953\/http:\/\/www.expo2005.com.au\/images\/mascots180\/mascot7.png\">as an artist?<\/a> (interestingly this isn&#8217;t used &#8211; maybe its not clear enough), and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060823042618\/http:\/\/www.expo2005.com.au\/images\/mascots180\/mascot8.png\">as a scientist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a bodysuit puppet of her. There are numerous pictures in the Australian Pavilion <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060820073640\/http:\/\/www.expo2005.com.au\/slideshow.asp?gID=1list.asp\">image gallery<\/a>, such as this one of her <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060822065822\/http:\/\/expo2005.com.au\/picture.asp?pID=63\">supervising<\/a> the unloading of the platypus exhibit (minus her gloves). And here Kamon\u00e9 is <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060821040348\/http:\/\/expo2005.com.au\/picture.asp?pID=142\">at Tokyo Station<\/a>, meeting her friends the official Aichi Expo mascots, Kiccoro and Morizo, a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051210064214\/http:\/\/www-1.expo2005.or.jp:80\/en\/whatexpo\/mascot.html\">forest child and a forest grandfather<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing. There is nice flash graphic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expo2005.com\/\">EXPO2005<\/a>, though its a pity you have to scroll down to get both images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yeah, the World EXPO also has a pavilion mascot, a platypus called Kamon\u00e9. She was designed by Melbourne-based illustrator, artist, toy designer and storyteller Nathan Jurevicius, best known for his Scarygirl series of toys, comics and products. The drawings are pretty cool and there are various versions of her: dancing, just herself, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[203,20,4,14],"tags":[169,239,255,142,1355,1365,252],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-make","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-bodysuit","tag-japan","tag-kamone","tag-mascot","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-world-expo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saZhI-kamon233","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}