Amy Harder over at PuppetryLab.com is doing some great work. Puppetry Lab focuses on puppet performance, and to my knowledge, is really the only site out there that has approached the subject full force. There are a few puppetry blogs and static web pages that have briefly discussed performance or puppetry for television and so [...]
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 [...]
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Carmelo Hernando has posted a new video trailer entitled “Isn’t All Play” on YouTube. We’ve mentioned Carmelo and El Gran Teatro de Maese Travieso before in this previous post. Check out Carmelo’s website at www.hernandoshideaway.es. Thanks for using the buzzline to keep us updated, Carmelo!
I was in a secondhand bookstore the other day and came across a couple of DVDs of the Thunderbirds. Thunderbird DVDs and other merchandise isn’t rare. A quick search on Amazon.com will confirm that. I must say I’ve been very pleased with the purchase and find the episodes very inspiring. The Thunderbirds had a relatively [...]
Ben Jones, one of the contributors here at Puppet Buzz, has added a puppet supplies section to his site, PuppetMinister.com. What is the first item available you ask? The ever elusive half dome eyes that typically are very hard to find or can only be purchased in bulk. Thanks Ben!
Puppet Buzz just got a “call” on the buzzline from Carmelo Hernando in Barcelona, Spain with clips of four great puppet plays done with traditional hand puppets from El Gran Teatro de Maese Travieso. The plays are in Spanish with English subtitles. I thought these shorts were excellent examples of taking traditional, familiar stories and [...]
Paul Louis from Puppetsnstuff.com has a free puppet-making video tutorial on ExpertVillage.com. It’s actually a series of videos that starts at a list of materials and ends with adding arm rods. Check the videos out here!
Hey, there’s a new puppet website in town! Check it out – www.thirdfloorpuppets.com. The site was officially launched October 3, 2006 by sixteen-year-old Chase Woolner. Age certainly is not a factor when it comes to skill and talent. Chase is a very talented puppet builder and performer and is already doing something about it. Take [...]
Check out the latest creation from Furry Puppet by Zack Bouchman. Dragonmir is an amazingly advanced mechanical rod puppet. His neck, mouth, eyes, and eyebrows can be operated by pushing levers on the main rod, or from a distance by push-pull cables. Check out more photos of Dragonmir as well as other fantastic creations at [...]
