[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-space-princess":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today I got to visit the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk/\">Discover\u003C/a> centre in Stratford, northeast London. The place looks amazing, with bizarre interactive story items packed into every square inch - a giant black dragon in the stairwell, a vibrating bridge, wiggling signposts, and something that had Alex Richardson the publicist and me in hysterics, a door in the toilets that made farting noises every time someone walked in.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/spaceprincess1-8cc446ad78.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI wore my new costume that my fantastic friend \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> helped me sew! (Well, Ellen sewed and I cut out some things and flapped around, made tea and stitched some of her quilt square while she sewed.) Alex wore one of my tiaras and brought me a princess than we \u003Ci>can\u003C/i> eat, and I led the kids in a raucous but hilariously fun session of making our own aliens. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/spaceprincess2-0ab12af41d.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/spaceprincess4-1edc96807c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd to top it off, guess who walked in at the end! Remember that \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/272188.html\">Olympics animation\u003C/a> I posted awhile ago? Well, it was the marvellous director, \u003Cb>Marc Craste\u003C/b> from \u003Ca href=\"http://www.studioaka.com/\">StudioAKA\u003C/a>. (You can tell I'm a total fan girl because he even has \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/tag/craste\">his own tag on my blog.\u003C/a>) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/spaceprincess5-27bbf8ac0b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was slightly embarrassed to be meeting him, looking a bit too much like \u003Ca href=\"http://www.dame-edna.com/\">Dame Edna Everage\u003C/a> in my outfit, so I ripped off the pink wig as he walked up, only to realise I had about six bobby pins sticking out of my head, with hair everywhere. Ah, well. \\r\nMarc was there to do the workshop after mine... those lucky kids!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit: Oo, FPI have just blogged about the \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/british-animation-awards-nominees-announced/\">British Animation Award nominees\u003C/a>, so you can get a look there at work by Marc and loads of other amazing people.\u003C/i>","2010-03-04T20:20:00.000Z","space-princess",[],"space princess!",1776628734091]