My friend and Chicago based artist Elisabeth Blair is known for angelic voice. However, she has recently turned her hand to stop motion animation and has found quite a talent for it. Using plastic animals, plasticine and found objects she makes mini dreamscapes perfectly suited to music videos and art films. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNTMvwjC36k&feature=youtu.be] She can even make custom videos for you …
Mad Horse Oil Painting
This is a painting I did a long while back as a present to my father. It’s of a mad horse, in full flight. It is currently hanging in his clinic, “in the bathroom so it will make my patients feel uncomfortable”. It felt good to work with oils, I haven’t done that for a long time and miss the …
Tim Burton Burlesque Video
Video from Gallery Burlesque’s Tim Burton tribute night just released! It was a wonderful night and all the other performers were fantastico! You can get a taste of what twisted fantasies you missed, but don’t despair another event is around the corner in July…Harry Potter and the Curse of the Tassel Twirl. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/41948128]
Eurovision 2012
Yes folks, its that time of year again. The time when all of the Europop world battle it out to determine who will be the most extravagant, tacky, bizarro representative of Europe. The Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final. This year’s extravaganza will be hosted by Azerbaijan, a little known country with a song about dates. This is what happened last …
Next Wave Festival Melbourne
I just spent the weekend in Melbourne and managed to catch some excellent Next Wave shows while I was there. Next Wave Festival is a curated contemporary arts and performance festival that only comes around once every two years. I’ve been meaning to get my butt down there for a while so I was happy that I finally had a …
Clairy Browne and the Bangin Rackette’s
Check out Clairy Browne and the Bangin Rackette’s awesome doo-wop/soul music video, filmed in Geelong Prison. By all accounts they are a marvelous live act, and the Melbourne group are touring nationally in a couple of weeks! The lowdown on Sydney shows – they’re playing the Brass Monkey in Cronulla on Thursday 24 May and Good God the following night. …
Madame Tussaud’s in Sydney
Madame Tussaud’s has hit Sydney! This famous London icon has traveled to Darling Harbour. Its great fun whether you want to pose with faux celebrities, admire the workmanship or experience the uncanny feeling of being in a room where you can’t tell who’s real and who’s not. I found it very creepy to be around such life-like models, which were …
Umbrella Theatre Does Timania – Tim Burton Burlesque
Umbrella Theatre had a wicked time on Sunday 22 April at the Standard, Taylor’s Square at Timania! This burlesque tribute to Tim Burton was a fabulous night out put on by the good folks at Gallery Burlesque. The burlesque-circus-cabaret-fan fiction-theatre-movie nerd-party was quite an extravaganza featuring some of the best burlesque acts I’ve seen in a long time, live visuals, …
Spinning A Yarn
If you have the chance, do visit my dear friends, Miss Poly Mer & Miss Poly Ester in their knitted world under the sea. After exploding out of the Sydney Fringe Festival with an excellence award, Spinning A Yarn has catapulted onwards. Visit their Pozible page now to help them continue their journey educating young and old alike about plastic …
Pastel Nude
Thought I’d share a nude I recently sketched up at the Sandringham sketch club, using borrowed pastels. Hope you like it. :)