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12 August.

My fiance David has been working particularly hard recently on writing funding applications and strategising towards getting his animated cop show up and into the world. So I decided to make him a sculpted version of one of the main characters, Sargent Ackersley.

It is very much a prototype to figure out issues with the design of the hair and also getting used to the material, sculpey. The figure had no legs in the end, the next version will need to have a wire armature as the base because the narrow legs can’t support the heavy cylindrical torso without more structure.

Really liking these sketches by Sanjay Patel for his Ghee Happy designs and Little Book of Hindu Deities.

Thanks Greg G for supplying this tip off in reply to my twitter about eating a big box of Indian sweets.

Dan Evans and I at the Great Gatsby Ball (photo by Thuy Linh Nguyen).

More from me about the experience when I have my brain back, but in the meantime here are what people are saying about this year’s National Young Writers’ Festival on the interwebs.

Margo Lanogan tells of how her terror turned to triumph, National Young Writers Festival, Not that I’m smug or anything.

Angela Meyer wins a raw sausage, National Young Writers Fest/TiNA blogging 2009 #1, Birthday notes, more from NYWF/TiNA to come

Thuy Linh Nguyen learns to swing dance, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Goodbye.

Lisa Dempster arranges the theft of the giant poster version of her own book cover Giant Neon Pilgrim poster: a story

The 5th Wall’s To-Do list disolves in the Newcastle rain, TiNA Wrap Up

” imagine a pencil or a ribbon of ink falling from the point of your elbow.” Beautiful photos resulting from Chay-Ya Clancy explorations into language and movement during * the space project, http://the-space-project.blogspot.com/

Estelle Tang interviews festival luminaries, National Young Writers’ Festival interviews, part I , National Young Writers’ Festival interviews, part II

I now have my first ongoing work in Melbourne, which is extremely exciting to me. The job is as one of the Events Assistants at Glen Eira City Council.

It’s good for getting me out of the house and away from gmail

Sketches of the lovely people I was sitting with at Michael and Amber’s  wedding  on Saturday 15th August.

For those of you that don’t know about what happens in Newcastle, NSW, on the labor day long weekend in October check out the video below. More soon!

National Young Writers Festival
This Is Not Art Festival (the mothership)