Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Click here and then Scroll down a bit to see the invite to Printmakers in Residence of 2006. My Render Project (a little loop of animated etchings) is included. It's not actually rendered yet - but it's churning along.



Hopefully I'll be able to catch some of this whilst I'm up there.
Print Symposium

bucket

Today I wished I was still small enough to sit in a bucket of water.



Here's my animated chap, he is also a bit hot and needs a bucket of water to jump into.

practice webs

Here are some chaps from the Render Project.


Bird-dropping-spider news is: There are 6 eggs (I'll insert a pic soon) and today, being a sweltering 30something degrees, has brought the little blighters out and into the sunshine! There were 6 or so tiny bird-dropping spiders out there wriggling and making little practice webs. (again, picture here soon)









Oh look.
Things of interest:
Living Together



Interestingly enough the Living Together conference was free and open to the public. Not that I want to have a little gripe here..but it is interesting to note that there was a conference of a similar nature in Melbourne last year -open to the public- and ..well lets just say I could have had a four year supply of chocolate freckles for roughly the same price. Not very open to the public methinx. I suppose they had their reasons. Perhaps they gave out 'show bags' with some of Derrida's fingernail clippings included in the goodies. I'm being silly now. :) ...okay it's a little gripe. But that's not why I popped in the link. It's a good link for the publishing house - with some insight into the authors. :)

spider

Click to see what we have on our jasmine vine in the back yard.

It's a bird dropping spider.

Apparently they catch birds, climb up really high..and then drop them to the ground.

Christmas Fripper

Here he is - a little Fripper.
"honk honk" he says in a goose like fashion, wishing you all Christmas Cheer.
(he looks like he is choking - not surprised with all this smoke around!)








Smokey Melbourne.




Here is a link to a funny little animation.
planty eyes
I think I put this link up about a year ago, but on watching it again I thought,
well it's so quirky I'll pop it up again...
nice 'authentic' camera movement.


More smokey Melbourne.

ex graphic investigators

The flowers have come out and purpled up my view.

I had an email out of the blue last week. From a chap called Ronald. Ah these ex-Graphic Investigators popping up all over the place. He is making interesting things, as you can imagine one does after four years floating around on the Graphix boat.

Here a link to one of his projects
left sensory bypass.




Here look, another. Greg Harrison printing. Saturday before last at APW.





















Here is my shining plate - ready for a swift hardground before getting booted out of the workshop at 5pm by secret-booner Waz. It was that smokey stinkingly hot day. 42 degrees I believe.



I wonder what Mr Jonathan Nix is up to? He is another.

And Edwin ofcourse: Edwin Gardiner
hmmm, those paintings.... Nice to see that he is graced by Morandi's presence.

There was a Morandi exhibition up in Sydney...1998? or 99? Centre for Contemporary Art.. How beautiful it was.

Here an article by Robin Wallace-Crabbe on Artists books.

Christmas is at hand. O.F., Jan and myself popped up the Christmas tree on Saturday evening. Ah the excitement in my tummy at this time of the year when I was little. Being sent to bed before everybody else....(being the youngest of the clan. :) ....that plastic smell that new Barbie dolls had when Father Christmas had delivered his goodies... And mince pies, and Christmas Icecream....

mmmm

balloons

Words are flying out like endless rain in to a paper cup -
well, actually they're not, but they are doing relatively nice things on John Marsden's new blog. See here.



Here are some early morning cycling shots - taken with my phone...whilst riding, so forgive me for the quality.

Things are wrapping up for the year seemingly. I am listening to that Coldplay song called Talk - I quite love it because of the way it guitarifies a splendid Kraftwerk riff (though Kraftwerk would most likely call it a 'mel - oh - dee' not a riff.)

I haven't written since my trip to Whyalla - been a little busy, distracted and wot not. It was an interesting and entertaining workshop. David, Tracey and myself heard some intriguing stories about life in Whyalla from the various locals we met. The kids impressed me to no end with their ability to pick up and create such fabulous animations.

Last week Maria was in town so we had a little AIM reunion dinner at Chocolate Bhudda...actually it was the week before. Twas lovely to see the gang. Hoping I catch them all at the AIM screening on Tuesday evening.

Somebody sent me this link today - please note it is only to be viewed if you've ever drunk baileys from a shoe.
creamy beige