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The puppeteer supplies "soul" and "heart" to a puppet with his charactarization & performance. It is the very quality I look for in good puppetry.

The puppet is indeed a prop or even more specific - a tool. It is created with a certain look & abitlity to achieve movement. Those two qualities, by themselves, don't mean much. A beautifully made puppet can still be manipulated with simple mechanical moves & complete a performance. Such a performance does little to capture or…

For the last 5 months of 2011 I was busy performing a marionette of China Girl for the new Disney film of "OZ; The Great & Powerful" that is due in USA theaters March 2013.

With the help of special effects studio,  K.N.B. Effects Group, I built 2 marionettes of the character. They were identical except for variations in stringing that allowed them to do different specialized movements. As I have found in several instances of marionettes made from the same patterns, they each had…

Saturday is the 14th Annual National Day of Puppetry.  The Asheville Puppetry Alliance will present our celebration at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway from 12 noon till 4 PM.  

I am performing The Frog Prince.

Lisa Sturz from Red Herring Puppets put together a video.  Check it out at…

Dear Puppethubbers,

Looking for books on script-writing for Puppet-theatre. Are there any? Do you have some in your Puppet library. If you have please let me know name of book, Auther and publishers as well as date of publishing?  -  Thanking you  -  TOBY

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I'm editing a video from weeks 3 and 4, but I've been blogging about the process as I try and build a new puppet each week of this year. The first couple were pretty straight up Project Puppet pattern ones, the third week was a Penguin loosely inspired by the project puppet patterns, and the fourth week was a newspaper bunraku puppet. This week I'm making a Wil Wheaton puppet to turn into a Fairy Godmother for a…

Museum of the hard to believe, the seller is back on ebay again trying to sell worn out basic sock puppet product of WGN television as a toy of the real puppet that rests in the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.    Asking price of $999.99 for one used toy puppet.   …

http://www.oyetimes.com/lifestyle/34-art-and-culture/16391-mr-bruno-descaves-and-his-tropical-troupereview-5

a new book that might interest members of Puppet Hub:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo11674038.html

reviewed in the NY Times Sunday Book Review:…

New shadow puppet, done as a test piece to try out using paper doilies as inserts.

http://inthedarkwoods.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/the-peacock-bride/…

As I am all over the web. But I think there will be something more consistent here soon.

I just paid the $25 lifetime membership for Puppet Hub and am wondering how I can wring my dollar's worth out of it so I decided to start this blog. It's a way of solidifying my commitment to completing my stop motion/shadow puppetry film and also getting some insight from professionals who can critique the work I am doing. Yes, I have two jobs and am going back to college part time but intend to continue filming as much as possible in the downtime. After all, the quest of my life is to be…

Hello friends and fans! We wanted to update everyone on our recent activity here at Sea Beast.

Upcoming events:

The Chicago Puppetry Guild Meeting:…

Wishful thinking of how some sort of variety show or something new of interest makes it on television.    Saw this about what is claimed another "Sesame Street for Boomers" for so many years later in life.   Could it include a new entertainment aspect to it?   …

Ok - up to three puppets - and for the known future I am sticking with Folkmanis puppets - as I like them best and can obtain them at very low cost (send me a message if you want to know how- almost another sort of message board club type of survey and discussion thing that I can invite new people to join).

Puppet one - Scampster Collie - went through a few names including Moose - actually more accurately is a Sheltie--- also can be known as Angel in a female role, don't want to limit…

The Chicago Guild has several Pelhams from the 1968 catalog which were recently donated for fund-raising purposes. All marionettes have their original multi-color coded strings, and most are in very fine condition.

Among these are Hansel & Gretel ($80pr), Red Riding Hood and furry friend BBW ($80pr/in their PP yellow boxes), a Pop Singer based on the Beatles (mod dress, guitar, guess who?) for $40 (with a PP box but not the right label), and a beautifully done green-faced Witch…

Los Angeles Puppeteers,

I'm a MFA candidate in Film Directing at Columbia University and I'm shooting a short film in Los Angeles on Jan 7-8. The short film, so far titled Reconciliation, is a dark, absurdist comedy mixed with drama. It depicts the journey of a man learning how to love after his penis decides to abandon him as a result of overuse. The penis will move, crawl, and talk. I need a puppeteer to bring the penis character to life and give it personality (In a couple of…

I've created a limited edition puppet for sale this Christmas season.  The Christmas Critter is $79 and only 25 are available, so order yours soon!  Check out the blog for more info:  http://www.thistledownpuppets.com/blog/the-thistledown-puppets-christmas-critter/

I am building 4 giant and different butterfly puppets for a friends dance number. It's been a journey to get them to be both large and sturdy as well as simple to operate and with movement that reads as a butterfly (even though it what I've landed on is a reverse flap, which looked better for some reason). They are made from 2 layers of 2mm black Sintra (PVC sheet) computer routed to the butterfly wing shapes with fine fabrics glued and sandwiched in between. They are then hinged with a…

Hello Puppet Hubateers,

We're a new group so I thought I'd post our video website.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ChaosCreatureChannel

We do comedy shorts with a mix of puppet and human actors and a lot of practical effects and camera tricks.  Check us out!

Anyone seen the show warhorse.clip on u tube

The puppeters are great very different and worth a look

it was a broadway show , so any comments on at as i will probable go to see it

u need to type war horse broadway to get there quickly i think.