Video blogger Loren Feldman took exception to having his work critiqued by fellow puppeteer/videoblogger Brian Hogg earlier this week.

A funny little story developed earlier this week…it seems that Brian Hogg wrote a post about taking puppetry seriously that singled out videoblogging puppeteer Loren Feldman for criticism. Loren fired back with an angry response (read the discussion in the comments under the video) and now Brian’s replied in kind and it looks like we’ve got ourselves the beginnings of an old fashioned, silly little puppet flame war here on the interwebs.

It’s hard to say how offended Loren really is considering his “angry man” persona. Taking the debate seriously for a moment, I’m a little torn because on the one hand, I think Loren’s a talented guy and he’s using puppetry (however crude it is) to reach a wide audience that normally doesn’t get exposed to it. On the other hand my inner puppetry snob can’t deny Brian’s point that Loren’s work is, from a technical standpoint at least, horrible.

Interesting…

14/11/08 Update: Brian claims in his most recent blog post that he’s heard through the grapevine that Loren is indeed really upset over this and and does seriously believe he’s done “more than anyone for puppetry since Jim Henson”, which (if true) sort of speaks for itself. You read some examples of what other people are saying about this here and here.