I was fortunate enough to run across this very cool puppet project that proposes to teach kids a variety of educational concepts using puppets and rap music called The Kids Block. Now I have seen many show ideas that have tried to use this approach and have failed. One of the biggest strikes against other [...]
Last friday, the 18th of February, Avenue Q had it’s Scandinavian premiere in Stockholm. I haven’t seen it myself yet but I am really looking forward to it. The puppets were created by Effektstudion, a company that specialized in special effects, puppets, animatronix etc. For those of you that are curious about the puppets, please check [...]
Okay, so Greg The Bunny has been playing on television very regularly here in good old Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. The truth is that it looks like a great show, but I have not been able to get into it. I don’t know why. I’ve tried. But it just hasn’t happened. Now the one thing that [...]
Who’s Mr. Puppet? Well, if you stroll on over to www.mrpuppet.com you’ll find that Bob Abdou, Editor for the Houston Puppetry Guild, has taken the title. Though Bob resides in Austin, Texas at the moment, if you check out the Celebrity Gallery page, you see he’s quite the world traveler.
If you’d like to see [...]
‘Alfie’ is the latest single by British singer Lilly Allen. The video features a rather ugly looking puppet playing Alfie (Alfie Owen-Allen – Lilys younger brother – refused to appear in the video), who Lily takes drugs away from, as well as catching him doing rather unsavoury things over Barbie pictures and stopping him taking [...]
I wrote about Michael Ziegfeld a while back in a previous post. It would seem that he continues to be busy; in a very exciting way. Michael lends his puppeteering and acting talents to a new movie starring Winona Ryder. The movie is called The Ten and it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January.
In [...]
Dinosaurs: The Third and Fourth Seasons DVD box set (the remaining 36 episodes from 1992-1994) is due to be released in May 2007. It is suppose to be packed with special features including “I’m the Baby” music video.Â
The Muppet Show: Season Two is due to come out in the next 120-200 days from now.  Our luck is [...]
