Fancy Making a Puppet, I mean Marionette?

I said before that I like puppets. I also have a healthy fear of them fulled by a childhood full of Chucky, Gremlins and Poltergeist’s freaky clown doll. All of them not technically puppets on strings but still scary reanimated things.

Puppets Good and Bad and Mostly Ugly

Jiri Zmitko and his Chisels

Last year I tried to get a place on the Marionette carving course at the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre cause I thought it would be cool to make a puppet but it was completely full. This year the course is back and I still think it would be cool to make a puppet but my purse strings are strangling me. So just in case there is anyone else is interested… they’re are still places left (I checked).

Jiri Zmitko The Puppet Master, who I think I recently saw in a LotteryWest ad, is teaching the “Carve your own Sicilian Marionette” workshop. It’s nine weeks long so that gives you plenty of time to hone your chisel skills.

Date: Thurs 4 March – Thurs 29 April, 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Cost: $450.00 (inc. hire of chisels)
Bookings and more info: Phone 9335 5044.

Hello, It’s Freo

A short film by Vincenzo Perrella & Dan Osborn. Music by Adrian Kingwell. The same guys who brought us This is Perth

Here be Monsters

Shiny new stencil on the pavement at South Beach… very detailed… nice.

Here be Monsters

Sandblasted

South Beach dog beach, thanks to the wind and gales, has been expanding its borders into the dog park. If you ever want to know what it’s like to have your face sandblasted take an evening stroll down there.

Dune be Gone

Right On

We love the stick man’s y-fronts.

Love Freo

Monday, Monday

I’ll be starting my week with the opening of the Fremantle Arts Centre’s new exhibitions tonight:

Exhibition Opening
Monday, 1st February 2010, 6.30pm
Bar & DJ

Fremantle Arts Centre
1 Finnerty Street
Fremantle

Find Jaz

I was walking back from the IGA on Hampton Road the other evening and I met this lady who was out looking for her dog. She lost him on Cracker Night and was quite distraught as she hasn’t seen him since he bolted. If you see hide or hair of him call 0408 907 570 or 0410 550 294.

Find Jaz

8th Bohemia Outdoor Film Festival

Freo’s outdoor film festival is here again. Personally I’ll be going to see Zombieland and the short film competition called “Bohemia Shorts”. The latter showcases five short films all shot in here in Fremantle, it’ll be interesting to see Freo up on the big screen.

The festival runs from the 4th to 21st of February and the full listings are on the Bohemian Nights webpage.

Where:
Bohemia Outdoor Film Festival,
Princess May Park,
Adelaide Street,
Fremantle.

Ticket Info:
Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday Nights
Tickets will be sold at the door and online.

Prices:
Adult $14/ $15
Concession $12/ $13
FTI Members $10/ $11
Kids (5 – 12 years) $7/ $8

Gates open at 6:30pm with screenings starting at 7:30pm.

Bohemia Outdoor Film Festival

Live Painting

Love Freo went to Little Creatures on Sunday to have a few drinks and gawk at Reboot and Dave Misled live painting. It was pretty cool to watch, the guys were good at what they were doing, very charming and produced some great canvases.

The Doctor was blowing a gale so stenciling was tough.

Finished Work

Done.

Fremantle Cracker Night 2010

Perth Skyworks is so last year Fremantle Cracker Night is the new black.

The fireworks were launched as soon as it was dark from the end of the groin at Fremantle Yacht Club. We went down Capo d’Orlando Drive to position ourselves right under them. Everybody was sitting up on the big boulders at the side of the road directly across from the launch area so when they went-off it was directly overhead. It was windy (as usual) so there was a lovely effect as the fireworks floated across the sky.

I won’t bore you with too many photos because fireworks are a you-had-to-be-there kind of thing.

Launch Area

Front Row Seats

Pretty Explosions

Launch Site