{"id":735,"date":"2009-02-28T22:27:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2009-02-28T22:31:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T12:31:10","slug":"nice-carnivals-huge-dragon-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/02\/28\/nice-carnivals-huge-dragon-puppet\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Carnival’s huge dragon puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(photo:\u00a0 rafael rybczynski<\/a>)<\/p>\n

My interest was piqued by photo #32 in the Big Picture’s post about Carnival<\/a>. It’s an impressive dragon puppet float that took to the streets in the Nice Carnival recently. I don’t know who made it, but there are resonances with Royal de Luxe’s giant puppets<\/a>, for instance the carving of the head, elements of the construction and operation and the way it breathes smoke.<\/p>\n

There are some photos<\/a> at Flickr. In particular, Sparrowlight<\/a> has a cool sequence of photos of the dragon<\/a>, including a couple of short videos, here<\/a> and here<\/a> ; there is a shot of the puppeteers<\/a>;\u00a0 and debs-eye<\/a> caught the dragon at rest (click to see enlarged):<\/p>\n

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(photo:\u00a0 rafael rybczynski) My interest was piqued by photo #32 in the Big Picture’s post about Carnival. It’s an impressive dragon puppet float that took to the streets in the Nice Carnival recently. I don’t know who made it, but there are resonances with Royal de Luxe’s giant puppets, for instance the carving of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,14,15],"tags":[993,992,1355,1365,265,1366],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-street-theatre","tag-carnival","tag-nice","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-royal-de-luxe","tag-street-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-bR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}