{"id":312,"date":"2007-02-16T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T00:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-01-02T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T05:38:12","slug":"now-a-giant-boy-marionette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/02\/16\/now-a-giant-boy-marionette\/","title":{"rendered":"Now a giant boy marionette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I came across this photo of a giant boy marionette<\/a>, taken in Sydney’s CBD in late January. It’s very much like Royal de Luxe’s little giantess<\/a> (who has been visiting Santiago<\/a>, Chile, in the company of a rhinoceros<\/a>) but I doubt he is theirs. Does anyone know the film company, or what production they were working on?<\/p>\n

Update:<\/u> A couple of people have uploaded videos of the puppet. Apparently it is to be in a Korean clothing commercial of some sort:<\/p>\n

Marionette<\/a>
\nGiant Puppet in Syndey<\/a><\/p>\n

I assume this was a practice session, since the articulation has a way to go, but it’s interesting to see how tricky it is after the seemingly faultless performances by Royal de Luxe. The hips look a bit too wobbly as if they might need to go back to the drawing board, but the untidy looseness in the legs and arms lend a bit of boyishness at times. I wonder what it is made out of? I’d guess plastic not wood. I was really surprised that Royal de Luxe uses wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I came across this photo of a giant boy marionette, taken in Sydney’s CBD in late January. It’s very much like Royal de Luxe’s little giantess (who has been visiting Santiago, Chile, in the company of a rhinoceros) but I doubt he is theirs. Does anyone know the film company, or what production they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14,15],"tags":[644,266,274,276,277,647,1355,1365,646,265,645,1366],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-street-theatre","tag-cile","tag-elephant","tag-giant-boy","tag-giantess","tag-korea","tag-marionette","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-rhinoceros","tag-royal-de-luxe","tag-santiago","tag-street-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-52","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}