A small valentin'es poem by Neil Gaiman

One of my favourite writers put this on his blog today...it made me LOI (laugh onthe inside)

Roses are red,
Violets are purple,
Which is a very hard word to rhyme
And makes me happy that on February the 14th we don't traditionally have to give each other oranges.

Hatched

I finally got a letter from PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) and I have got in to HATCHED! YAY!  Opens on Friday the 20th April...

Happy Birthday Nana

CGS International Artists Exhibition

The Contemporary Glass Society (UK) are having an online 'International Artists exhibition'. I got in!
Check out my entry 'Into the woods' (like you haven't seen that!) and the other 43 artists shown here.
There are a lot of Australians in the line up.

I like 'Frozen forest' by Leigh Roberts, 'Forgotten threads of intimacy' by Sarah Davis (Hi Sarah!) and 'Soul of emptiness' by Pilar Aldana-Mendez and many more.

Sabbia: storytelling

The upstairs room, Mi Kyoung Jung and Ruth Oliphant.

Happy Birthday Betty

As you see, this is a themed card. This morning Betty and I went up in a Seaplane, over the city and far away.
Well as far as palm beach and back anyway.

The pilot timed it well, so the massive down pour happened AFTER we landed and crossed the jetty.

the Joy of the book is infectious

Apparently this went viral since posted yesterday

Sydney festival first night

'As the world tipped' had to be the best part of festival first night. The combination of large scale projection with aerial acrobatics, choreographed brilliantly to make a very compelling piece of theatre and storytelling. Inspiring.

As the world tipped. Image from Sydney Festival

As the world tipped. Image from Sydney Festival

had to try this spiral of chips!

St Mary's Cathedral lit up with Mark Andrew's designs

Glassimation

Apparently last year Pilchuck ran a course called Glassimation. Here is the video of the resulting work (thanks Deb for the heads up). Seems that I now have a genre!

Becoming

Becoming: the dynamic aspect of being...

Happy New Year 2012

I'm looking forward to this year...

Lotte Reiniger films & Animagica

Animagica play acoustics to Lotte Reiniger films for the Sydney Festival in the Spiegeltent!
Sounds very cool! On the 24&25th Jan.

Merry Christmas and all that jazz

A sample of my Christmas cards this year. Comments have been that they reflect my glass work of the moment..some bright spark suggested glass pop ups!

Fingers crossed!

Well I have put together an application for PICA's 'Hatched'....hold my breath till Feb!
PICA = Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Hatched = National Graduate Show (Australia)

The world's your oyster Jon

Dougie's friend Jon is 'retiring'. Dougie wanted a card and he gave me a fairly specific brief. A font like 'Indiana Jones' and to use some of Jon's hobbies and interests as illustration for a card that holds a voucher for a Yachting experience for two. This is what I came up with after some input from the creative director.

Jon's farewell party was also part of his work Christmas party, so we had a chance to relax down by the John Oxley.

The John Oxley

Ruby and Crickette

I love my Ruby & Crickette ring, reminds me of Kendal Murray's work.

Gradshow 2011!

Into the woods (2011)

Here is my Grad show major work. This is a quick video from my tiny camera..I'll get a more professional job done soon...but for the mean time, here it is!

More waiting

I guess I freaked out today. I knew working with after effects was going to be challenging. Only because I have used it very little. I couldn't remember all the steps and my notes didn't cover everything that Jack showed me. So a bit of a panic. After 4-5 hours playing around with the program I seem to be getting somewhere.

I have a basic test..that is STILL rendering. WAITING!

Waiting

for over 500 images to download...
It's hot, humid and almost 2am. The mosquitos haven't given up yet, and neither have I. ...images waiting in the transfer queue is now 326 and then I'll go and take some more shots for my animation.

I haven't blogged much recently, Graduation show is only days away (tuesday coming) and the pressure is on. Every minute is allocated for. Including the ones around 3am.