'Hides like Rain' . Video poem

Video poem: 'Are the cloud'

Bits by dheborah

Digital illustration Foray: Android illustration techniques

Visual disturbance by dheborah

Interplay with fashion images: stripes

The original image was by Tony Ve Lu, from  Sky TV film footage. While looking at ways to transfer film from mini-tapes from obsolete equipment, I found a way to produce curved stripes to images, creating another illustration option. Tony is a master of photography, but I enjoy new illustration forays, particularly the accidental. This was the result of many attenpts to preserve some small, old films recorded on an old Panasonic NVGSII digital video recorder. I love the android feeling.

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Earlier design influences (2004) - dheborah

I've never been able to upload this  due to formatting so I have  quickly filmed it (just for the record) on a tiny camera. The green dot is where my eyes lead me. At the time I made it, I was using a heavy, little hired Oyster computer and spending many late nights in the computer room with graphics students, then going straight on to night shift. Someone stole my rings in the screen-printing room that year. The date, 2002, is wrong. The cat is my sister's and his name is Samson - he is going blind. The guy on the calendar looks like someone I knew once. The music you can hear is 'Mosox Punchay' from 'Inca Quena'  by Inti  Rami...always, always, love the source.

                                                                          dheborah

Textile:from a range called "The dying king".

Textile by dheborah

My "He who rules" fabric samples were  based on a theme I created from a photo I had of an old, dying king, seated on a hand-made throne. This is a sample piece and I did this  as a student, years ago. I pulled this out of a big black urn-thing in  my studio that is  full of older pieces I have kept, but never used. At the time, I thought this was a masculine piece, but I think guys see things differently. 

Dedicated to Tuka: II Carnaby Cockatoos on my Fence

Tuka's song, 'State of Mind' is playing in the background, against the sound of two cockatoos that sometimes come into my garden. This is a stunning, sensitive song and is my favourite from his album which he released on Friday. The cockatoo in the front is a girl (white beak, a little fussy, and doesn't want him to be too clingy) while the cockatoo at the back is a boy (black beak, high crown... doesn't always get it quite right). Earlier in the year, he flew out to their roost about four times a day (and again at night) to feed her while she sat on their egg. 

Emu farm

A Closer look at an emu after grooming itself

                                                                                                                   Tuka is sensational

Emus in the Frost

Photo taken by dheborah

This is part of a group of about 100 farmed emus soaking up the early morning sun...it is 1 degree Celsius, and, although the sun has been up for an hour and a half, they are still standing in frost. Emus are farmed for their delicate meat and emoliant-like oil. They make a  soft, hollow sound like a drum filled with water.

'Emu'. Traditional Aboriginal dancing in Kwinana

NAIDOC: Manja Boodga (Together on sacred ground).

NAIDOC-photographs taken at the Spectacles in Kwinana today.

5 july 2015.

The Moon and the Rainbow.

'The Moon and the Rainbow'

Photograph of the setting moon and a rainbow over Leda Nature Reserve on Sunday morning.
(taken by dheborah,  Sunday July 5th, 2015)

Walking through rainbows

For the past two days, residents of Kwinana and Rockingham have been showered in a show of rainbows. This is just a pair from an endless display this morning. I woke to a vision of the moon and multiple rainbows as clouds moved over Leda's nature reserve and we sit now in the eye of a dense, dark rain storm. 

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