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It's a sordid 'on-again, off-again' kind of affair.
Nobody gets hurt and nothing illegal takes place, so it's all good. And really, it's nobody's business what I do in the privacy of my own bedroom with meters and meters of fake fur ping pong balls and hot glue.

What First Got Me Interested in Puppetry

I liked seeing them on tv as a little kid. It was like cartoons in live action. Crazy man, crazy. So yeah, Sesame street, Muppet Show and Alf..my teddy bear, as a kid, was an alf stuffed toy. Me and my brother would make little videos with hand puppets, then I started making my own. Who knows why we're attracted to these funny little characters.

My Puppetry (or Puppet) Hero

It's gotta be Jim Henson. Natch.
But I am constantly inspired by good puppetry and well crafted puppets, whether they be aesthetically appealing or well crafted internals. Yeah, I totally nerdgasm over interesting mechanisms.

If I Were a Puppet, I'd Be...

a total sellout. I'd make elmo look like a "left-wing, commie pinko".

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Contrary to my online persona, I am actually quite a shy and delicate little snowflake in real life.

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Bird Rod Puppet update.

This is the progress I've made so far on my two bird rod puppets. It's slowly getting there. Been making updates on my livejournal. Sometimes videoblogs are the easiest way to show and explain stuff.

After seeing that frontal pic, I matched them closer.

… Continue

Posted on April 11, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Bird Rod Puppet

Oh yeah, so once again I decided I would put myself through the brain racking masochistic torture that is making another puppet.
It's gonna be a Bird, and due it's size, he's gonna be a rod puppet. I've alwanted to have a little rod-puppet and because people insist on asking for money for stuff or don't just give me these things as I think of them I'm just gonna have to go ahead and make this puppy myself..um, or bird rather.
I took apart my in-progress moving eye mechanism to start with… Continue

Posted on March 22, 2010 at 11:01am — 3 Comments

Eye Blink mechanism part 2.

It's all glued in and workin excellently.

Posted on August 5, 2009 at 3:55pm — 1 Comment

Eye Blink mechanism

I'm a gigantic hypocrite, so instead of finishing my moving eyeblink mech, I shelved it and started a blink mech.
It was supposed to be a simple reboot of my previous attempt for my Gerald puppet [as blogged previously here], a sorta Gerald version 2.0, and well, shit got complicated. I sculpted a lovely head out of a solid piece of foam that was gonna be a monkey head, but carved a simpler rounded head out of it an… Continue

Posted on July 25, 2009 at 11:30am —

Eye Mech on hold.

I have a time consuming paying art gig for a magazine so I'm putting off the eye mech for now.

In experimenting I realised I hadn't noticed the two levers for the side to side eye movment need to move in opposite directions. Doy!! The way I had blissfully unaware thought about it would have resulted in the eyes crossing and moving away from each other. Easily fixed though, in an instant I came up with a little lever action I hope to get a start on soon. It'll be a parrallel push-pull movement.… Continue

Posted on March 1, 2009 at 12:12pm —

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At 11:44pm on June 13, 2010, Elias Escobedo Aravena said…: yes i see the photograps but i would like something like a tutorial or something with more details if you have the time off corse , because you see the photos doesnt show how to join the artefacts, or what are those artefacts, pleease....
i could pay.......?????????

At 1:16pm on June 11, 2010, Elias Escobedo Aravena said…: Hello is a real pleasure to meet more colleagues in this beautiful passion of the puppets, can you tell me how to build Eye Blink, theres no problem if you Buddhas, I hope your answer. anyway thanks for everything