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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My apologies to everyone for the lack of new posts on PuppetVision this week. A combination of personal commitments and work on PuppetVision: The Movie has kept me preoccupied and very, very busy since the beginning of the...
The PuppetVision Blog has a brand new...
Unfortunately, I suffered a nasty injury over the weekend and while I am okay and on the mend, in the short term it’s made doing most things including working at a computer pretty uncomfortable. I’m going to take a short break from blogging for a few days, but I hope to be back in the...
`Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, creatures were stirring so Andrew wrote this before he had to leave his...
This is a sweet story. Sid Ceaser (yes, that’s his real name) has been with his long-time love Sara Prindiville for ten years and he wanted to make it official. So Sid came up with a very creative idea for a proposal: get Muppet “What Not” puppets from FAO Schwartz (see previous post) made in...
I stopped regularly updating PuppetVision about a year ago due to serious illness in my family, professional commitments and because frankly I wanted to spend more time doing puppetry rather than writing about it. The past year has been a wild ride for me - in ways both terrible and wonderful - and as I...
While I wasn’t blogging over the summer, I was doing a series of improv puppetry workshops and rehearsals with Unraku. It was a really interesting, challenging experience because while I consider myself a pretty decent puppeteer, I’m terrible at improv. Fortunately, Stacey was teaching us and she’s always devastatingly funny and a blast to work...
Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. I had previously posted a couple of messages on here about some of the personal upheaval that’s kept me away from the puppetry intrawebs for so long. I’m somewhat reluctant to discuss my personal life and circumstances in a public forum like this – if anything recent events...
Sorry for the lack of recent updates. I’ve recently been occupied by a family emergency and updates may be few and far between over the summer as a result. If you’re enrolled in the Puppet Building 101 course, it’s been placed on hold until July 13th, at which point it will resume. I have no...
The annual Orlando Puppet Festival runs November 7-9 in Orlando, Florida. The Orlando Puppet Festival kicks off tomorrow and if you’re in, near or can get to Orlando, Florida you really need to be there. Orlando has a great puppetry community and the festival features a fantastic line-up that includes Leslie Carrara-Rudolph and Big Nazo...
Alexander Winfield spent the past summer performing full-time on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street. One day this past summer I was walking along Queen West in Toronto and did a double take when I saw a puppet being performed from a burlap sack on sidewalk. I was in a rush so I couldn’t stop long enough...
Steve the Vampire’s Mom finds Jesus in the latest puppet short from Elmwood Productions. Just out is Steve The Vampire, Whose Mom Finds Jesus. As I’ve mentioned before, I really like these and I hope Elmwood keeps `em...