I’m a filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppeteers and puppetry around the world.
Build process for "Metsanhenki", a large puppet in conjunction with the Helsinki Festival in Finland.
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Build process for "Metsanhenki", a large puppet in conjunction with the Helsinki Festival in Finland.
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Building "The Bloody Hero" a Steampunk Superhero Puppet
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A look inside the hand of a hand and rod puppet
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Wheatley (from the video game Portal) puppet build
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Ha!
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Piramide de los Nichos, El Tajin, Papantla, Mexico. Really fascinating and important Mesa-American archaeological site I visted several times in 2005-07.
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Animatronic Singing Beaker-bot
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Beloved Canadian folksinger Rita MacNeil passed away last week and The Famous PEOPLE Players paid tribute to her by posting two of their performances of her song "Flying On Your Own" on...
I love this fantastic video of Hungarian puppeteer Lenart Andres, who performs under his company's name...
The hit British preschool puppet show Dogs Don't Do Ballet wraps up an all-too-brief return to The Little Angel Theatre today. The show is based on a children's book by Anna Kemp that was illustrated by Sara...
The creative team behind War Horse - South Africa's Handspring Puppet Theatre and UK director Tom Morris - have reunited to create a new production of the Shakespearean classic A Midsummer Night’s...
A really big show is about to debut in Melbourne, Australia. King Kong is a live stage adaptation of the 1933 Hollywood classic featuring an incredible life-size animatronic King Kong designed and built by The Creature Technology...
On this week's episode of the Rick Mercer Report, popular Canadian comedian Rick Mercer joined the acclaimed Canadian black light puppetry company Famous PEOPLE...
I had the chance to see The Last Bamboo by Spencer Lott (see previous post) last Fall at a puppet slam in New York and it's one of the best slam pieces I've ever...
I'm always fascinated by the different ways that the holidays are celebrated in different places, so it was fun to get this video yesterday of a puppet show in Oklahoma that's part of what sounds like a really great holiday tradition- a Christmas...
Basil Twist explains the process he used to create giant robots for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a new show currently playing at the La Jolla...
The latest work of the Occupy Wallstreet Puppet Guild is a set of giant puppets made in the likeness of U.S. President Barack Obama, former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Rich "Uncle" Pennybags, the round-headed "Monopoly...
Here in the West we don't often hear much about Russian puppetry, which is one of the reasons I'm intrigued by the work of Nikolai Zykov, who regularly uploads videos of his work to his YouTube...
The puppets are coming to Washington. Perhaps not a million of them, but even so The Million Puppet March should be an impressive gathering of fur, fleece, and people who love puppets in support of public broadcasting in the United...