Tag Archives: Australian puppetry

Corporate Creatures

Con Quest is the host of the weekly Corporate Creatures Business News podcast.
Corporate Creatures is a new initiative from puppeteer Gary Friedman. I talked with Gary about this project about a year ago and it’s really exciting to see it coming to life. Through Corporate Creatures Gary is providing live interactive corporate workshops, corporate performances [...]

The Monster’s Birthday Party

Dracula greets guests to The Monster’s Birthday Party.
The Monster’s Birthday Party is a short film by Phillip Einfeld that’s in the same vein as Spook House Dave and Transylvania TV (me thinks me does detect a trend here). The puppetry in it is sometimes a little stiff, but the level of detail and work that [...]

TV Puppetry Workshop in Sydney

Puppeteer Gary Friedman teaches TV puppetry workshops this spring in Sydney, Australia.
Gary Friedman is once again teaching workshops in film & TV style puppetry in Sydney, Australia. The course runs from mid-April to early June 2008 and is “suitable for film makers, puppeteers, performers, and others interested in learning about how puppetry is made for [...]

John Howard’s Final Scapegoat Search

Australian puppeteer Shan Jayaweera has posted the final installment of his John Howard puppet video blog.
I’m not exactly timely posting this, but I wanted to mention that in a victory for left-leaning voters Down Under and friends of the environment everywhere, John Howard’s Liberal government was defeated in Australia over the weekend. Fittingly enough just [...]

Funky Dancing Marionette

A dancing marionette gets down to Stevie Wonder’s I Wish.This is a nifty video of a dancing marionette. It was shot as a demo/experiment in puppet manipulation by Shan Jayaweera, previously mentioned here for his YouTube video spoofs of Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Shan found this particular marionette on ebay, but these types of puppets [...]

John Howard: Searching For A Scapegoat

Puppetry and politics collide once again on YouTube with John Howard: Search For A Scapegoat.
John Howard: Search For A Scapegoat is the latest in a series of political puppetry satires from Shan Jayaweera that take aim at the Australian Prime Minister. It’s an election year down under and in Shan’s newest videos John Howard’s puppet [...]

Lines on Palms

Toy Theatre inspires Lines on Palms, the latest Josh Pyke music video.
Lines on Palms is the video for a recent single from Australian singer Josh Pyke. It’s filled with lots of simple, but very effective puppetry. The whole video looks like it takes place in a wonderfully whimsical giant toy theatre.
Thanks to Mike Marinos for [...]

The Puppet Stars of YouTube

When I started writing PuppetVision there was I think exactly one puppet web series – Mario’s Word of The Week – and the term “podcast” didn’t yet apply to videos so it’s pretty incredible that less than three short years later there are now so many people producing shows via video sharing sites like YouTube [...]

How To Make A Beat

A puppet explains how to make music in How To Make A Beat.
I’m not really musically inclined whatsoever and so I actually learned something watching How To Make A Beat, a clever little short film in which a puppet explains how to create music. It’s by an Australian company called Isore Productions and sort of [...]

Puppetry for TV at the Sydney Film School

Students participate in a film/T.V. puppetry workshop at the Sydney Film School in Sydney, Australia.
Gary Friedman has been putting lots of clips up on Google Video lately (see previous post), but one in particular that caught my eye was a short promo for Gary’s puppetry workshops at the Sydney Film School in Australia. The video [...]