Snuff Puppets recently entertained crowds at Federation Square in Melbourne with their amazing Human Body Parts puppets.
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Ladybird puppet
This is a ladybird glove puppet I recently made for the Riverstone Family Centre’s early literacy program. She has a little leather library bag over her shoulder in which she is carrying a little book!
There are some more photos of her in my photoset at Flickr, and a short video o f her.
The bravest man amongst them durst not touch her tail
Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail,
The bravest man amongst them durst not touch her tail;
She put out her horns like a little Kyloe cow;
Run, tailors, run, or she’ll kill you all e’en now.
One of my upcoming projects is to build a remote control snail, so I’ve been gathering some information about snails. I’ve always rather liked snails, an attitude that is easy to keep when our ducks keep our garden virtually snail free. I always assumed that snails only ate plant matter, and had no distinguishable mouth on their faces, so to speak. How wrong I was!
Now looking at Snuff Puppets fabulous giant puppet snail, Mirabel, I see the mouth and tongue are quite a feature. At one point in this video it swipes just about all of someone’s fairy floss!
Never say no to Panda!
Funny!
Mech details for a Ningyo- Joruri puppet head
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Someone asked me how the movement of the Ningyo-Joruri puppet head that I made during Nori Sawa’s masterclass a few years ago worked , so I’ve drawn a diagram on my iPad to illustrate the mechanism. It makes more sense if you look at in context with my photoset from the class, and perhaps with the original blog post.
Inception – done in 60 seconds
A 60 second version of Inception, drawing on the toy theatre tradition. Pretty accurate!
Norman Hetherington/Mr Squiggle tribute on iView
I was sad to hear a couple of days ago that Norman Hetherington, the creator and puppeteer of Mr. Squiggle had died. The ABC has made their Australian Story program on him available on iView as a tribute. I was delighted that it includes some behind the scenes footage that shows how Mr Squiggle is operated! Be quick though, it’s is only available to view for 6 days!
Previously:
- ‘Upside down! Upside down’ – the squiggle drawn for me at the Puppetry Summit, 2002
- Mr Squiggle and friends – photos of the puppets on exhibition at Unima2008, Perth.
Xolo, Royal de Luxe’s new puppet
(Photo credit: Dalo_Pix2)
Royal de Luxe have just staged a Mexican re-imagining of their Little Giantess street theatre spectacular in Guadalajara as part of the Celebrando el Centenario de la Revolución Mexicana. I love the little giantess’s beautiful colourful dress and pigtails. She was accompanied by her farmer uncle, and a new character, a giant hairless Mexican dog, Xolo, who is satisfyingly doggy in the way it pricks up its ears and lopes along. There are good photos at the Guadalajara Reporter, Super Punch, and Royal de Luxe Central. I also love this street art of Xolo.
The Narrative of Victor Karloch
This is the trailer for The Narrative of Victor Karloch, a travelling gothic horror stage show created by Kevin McTurk and ‘presented in the style of an eerie Victorian triptych puppet theatre’. The puppets looks great, an interesting mix of 75cm tall rod puppets, shadow puppetry and elements of bunraku.
(via Laughing Squid)
