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	<description>Polymer Clay Critters and Other Sculptures</description>
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		<title>Billie Achilleos&#8217; puppets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tend to use this blog only for my own creations most of the time, but I&#8217;m so fascinated by the range of different puppets on Billie Achilleos&#8217; blog that I wanted to share it here immediately.
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		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/billie-achilleos-puppets</link>
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		<title>Kenneth Mark II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does this control box for my wave-based interactive animations count as a sculpture? I&#8217;m thinking it just about does, even though it&#8217;s a far cry from the sort of thing I normally include here; either way, my main post about it is over on my generative art blog

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		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/kenneth-mark-ii</link>
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		<title>Third Giant Puppet: Hati the Wolf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
The Samhuinn Fire Festival in Edinburgh has more often than not featured a pack of wolves in one form or another &#8211; the Wild Hunt, hounding the spirits of Summer,  is one of its recurring symbols, and for me has been one of the big highlights of the Samhuinns I have attended as an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/hati</link>
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		<title>Second giant puppet: Tara the Tapir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the 2010 Samhuinn Fire Festival in Edinburgh, I co-organised a group representing the role of the spirit of Summer, doomed to fall to the wolves of Winter, by means of a carnival troupe of mediaeval-style musicians, fantastical animals  and basket-bearers distributing flowers and cake, glitter and bubbles. I led the puppeteers together with my friend  Hannah [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/tapir</link>
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		<title>USB Sugru Tiger</title>
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I&#8217;ve been looking forward to making USB sculptures out of Sugru ever since I got to play with a couple a little of the the stuff at the Maker Faire in Newcastle last year. My hope is that it will prove at least as resilient as epoxy putty, which is remarkably strong but quite brittle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/usb-sugru-tiger</link>
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		<title>My first giant puppet: Mashi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been vaguely wanting to try making puppets for years, but apart from a couple of days working on Big Man Walking in 2009 I&#8217;d never really had the opportunity &#8211; until the 2010 Beltane Fire Festival, when Morag Patterson announced at the open meeting that she would be running a group of Red Puppeteers.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/mashi</link>
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		<title>Cloud9 &#8211; 3D haptic modelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been employed on a part-time freelance basis by a company called Anarkik3D Ltd., based at Edinburgh College of Art. I re-did their web site so it&#8217;s easily maintainable, running on WordPress, but mostly I&#8217;ve been testing the new version of their 3D haptic modelling software package, Cloud9.
I got into this because as a sculptor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/cloud9</link>
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		<title>Monopod staff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found my staff as driftwood on the beach at Helensburgh, the morning after spending a night in a police cell for protesting at the nuclear base Faslane.
I took it home, flaked off what was left of its bark, sawed off the rough ends and sanded it down. Then I stained it slightly with tea, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/monopod-staff</link>
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		<title>Wearable Art &#8211; Valravn of Samhuinn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Since getting involved with Edinburgh&#8217;s Beltane Fire Society a couple of years ago, I&#8217;ve got quite into making costumes. The blurry area between costuming and sculpture is particularly interesting to me, along with its close neighbour puppetry.  For last year&#8217;s Samhuinn &#8211; a festival laying to rest the last dregs of Summer and ambivalently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/valravn</link>
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		<title>Sugru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday I went to the second UK Maker Faire in Newcastle. This is an event that gets together a whole lot of people in one building who have something creative and technological to show off, share or workshop. That&#8217;s a pretty broad remit; there was probably a slim majority of fun robotics projects, plus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/sugru</link>
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