Listening to Murmurs of Earth

This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.

Dad’s turn.

The many faces(or hairdos) of Dad. Quel disastre!

Ken Russell

Ken Russell, I’ll miss you. Bona fide genius.

Delving back into Just So

My new show, This Is Not A Possum has opened at the Old Fitz (The Horse’s Mouth Festival), and so my exploits of Kipling’s fables can start again.

This time it’s the long and wonderful history of Tegumai …

Continuing the Fascination with Miniatures

Where’s Wally + Astro Turf

Puppet Plane & Cotton Wool (no CG)

Tilt Shift

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Doppelganger

I’ve been wanting to post for months about my mother’s doppelganger, Ali MacGraw. Specifically, Love Story.
It’s very weird for everyone in our family to watch that movie, because mum’s making out with a radically nice young version of the …

The flowers that never die.

Other Katoomba stuff.

Lamb with Couscous

Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner for the next week.

Best thing about that tedious moment where you can’t find any decent ingredients in your shitty Katoomba Coles? Using preserved lemons and oranges already made.

The Bedroom

Alby floored the bedroom in the same stringy bark boards we’ve used in the rest of the house. With about 10,000 tonnes of it left from the Laws Auction, we panelled the side of the wardrobe up to the ceiling. …

Obsession with miniatures has taken me to a dark place.

LISTEN! But really, Patience and Prudence are so amazing. Frightening, but incredible.
Has such a James/Donna feel to it, doesn’t it? I wonder if this was where Lynch has been for a week (buried in P&P Hell/Heaven) when he put this together:

Moving

OK, so I blogged the still version of this recently – here’s the beginnings (somewhat crude) of the animation. Not happy with the colours at all yet.

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Varda

An interview with the wonderful Agnes Varda.

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