Puppet Up! - Uncensored is coming to Australia late in the summer, first to the Big Laugh Comedy Festival in Sydney in March, and then the Melbourne Comedy Festival in April. I’ve just been watching the video clip and it looks like it could be a lot of fun. The Age recently had a short [...]
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Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience: Workshop footage
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, theatre, video on Dec 1st, 2006
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience (see previous post) has released two videos of their awesome dinosaur puppetry:
Footage from the workshop
Torosaur v. Utahraptor
And here are a couple of stills from their newsletter.
Steg
in the workshop. if you want an idea of HOW BIG this shows going to be, check out the size of the person working [...]
I also received a note about Duck walks into a Bar, a ‘bar-hopping, Muppet-style character who likes to troll bars in search of babes, booze and free drinks’, created by Kevin Susman & James Murray. It’s not particularly my taste, but the puppetry, character and video production are slick, so take a look.
Espresso coffee hats
Posted in craft, design, fun, make, materials, performance art, portfolio, street theatre, video on Oct 21st, 2006
Making these fun hats was another of my Floriade projects. I enjoyed making them and was really happy with how they turned out. They were made for the performance group The Bunch of Posers, who in this guise are called Acappellacino.
To make them I started out by making the cup shape upside down, with a [...]
(photo: Whitney Museum of American Art)
It’s funny how these things happen. Just the other day I was thinking about Alexander Calder’s Circus, the film of which I saw a few years ago at the first national puppetry summit, and wondering if it might be on the net, and then yesterday Boing Boing linked to clips [...]
Close-Act: Sau’rus
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Jun 24th, 2006
(photo by digitaldust)
A few weeks ago I was impressed by a number of photos at Flickr showing some fabulous big dinousaur walkabout puppets at the Paradise Gardens festival in London. This was Sau’rus, an act by the Dutch theatre group, Close-Act Street Theatre. Close-Act was formed in 1991 and ‘has since grown to a professional [...]
(Photo by Special P)
Like Jose, I’ve been interested in the puppets that formed part of Beck’s concert at the the Sasquatch Festival in Royal Gorge, Washington on Memorial Day. Previously, they had appeared at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and in Davis (there is an itinerary there). According to the SFGate Culture Blog, Beck hired [...]
Last weekend the Tate Modern in London hosted a new production of Mori el Merma, which was first performed in 1978, and emerged out of a collaboration between the surrealist painter Joan Miró and La Claca, an experimental theatre troupe from Barcelona, headed by Joan Baixas. In the new revision,
‘… Joan Baixas evokes the [...]
The irreverence and exhuberence in this classic Sesame Street video clip is such fun. I love it! (via Project Puppet)
Its no longer available :(
Tyger is a terrific short film directed by Guilherme Marcondes. While William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, was the starting point, it ‘doesn’t attempt to illustrate or pay homage to the original text’. Marcondes interprets the tiger as symbolizing ‘a hint of wonder along with a fear of progress. The tiger is as much dangerous as [...]