Here is an article from the Toronto Star’s Stephen Marche (a novelist and culture columnist). He disusses the recent rise of puppetry into mainstream media! Toronto Star Article dated November 14th, 2009. “The reappearance of puppets in our culture has been swift and sudden. Only 10 years ago, John Cusack’s depressed and impoverished puppeteer from [...]
Funded by The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts as part of a sculpture comission awarded to Wayne Zebzda. A group of 67 elementary school teachers and staff learned to create shadow puppets and performed (implimenting everything they built) a small shadow play which was totally improvised in real time.
Here is a proprietary real-time character animation system. Developed by Fernando J. Montilla in co-production with the Atlantic College MoCap Lab in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and brought to life by the Atlantic College MoCap Lab.
The following is from News 14 in Carolina Duke University’s Center for Child and Family Policy and the Hart Leadership Program welcomed Gary Knell, the president and CEO of Sesame Workshop. Knell spoke at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy in a program called “Muppet Diplomacy: How Sesame Street is Changing Our World.” He talked [...]
Jason Segel has revealed to the world that he is in Pre-Production of a new Muppet movie- here is the latest interview from/film! When we reported last week that Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nick Stoller and writer/star Jason Segel had signed on to develop the next Muppet movie, I speculated that these would be the [...]
Calgary’s indie-rocking chanteuse, Leslie Feist, is home this week creating her next music video with fellow-Calgary artists, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop. Feist is combining with them to create her next video, which will be directed by Anthony Seck. This isn’t Feist’s first experience working with puppets. “I’ve always been fascinated by puppetry,” says the [...]
From the folks who brought you Mr. Meaty, Jamie Shannon and Jason Hopley. Broadcasted from his garage, Swami Jeff tries to teach his dad the path of enlightenment. Not only is the puppetry top notch, but the sets, sound, wardrobe, lighting….basically everything is very well done. This show was originally made for Zed TV in 2002, [...]
It has been reported by The Muppet Newsflash that a new Sesame Street Christmas Special called “Elmo’s Christmas Countdown” and will be airing Sunday, December 23, 2007 at 7:00 pm. This hour long show will include everyone on Sesame Street, and have tons of guest star appearances and musical numbers. So clear your schedule, and program [...]
Alrighty then! I’ve been asked time, and time again for the pattern I posted on The Muppet Central Forum last March. I’ve see some of the really amazing things that came from it and thought that it would be great to now provide the fabric pattern to go along with it- It is now complete! [...]
The following is an email Ricki Vincent from http://www.geppettodreams.com/ has sent me looking to hire puppeteers: Wanna run away and join my circus? New Puppet theater opening in Austin TX this fall and I’m looking for experienced puppeteers to join my new troupe. Also looking for puppet shows (all Kinds) both children and adult shows to [...]
