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28 Feb 2009
The Puppetry of the Podcast @Podcamp Toronto

A video of Brian Hogg’s presentation from Podcamp Toronto, The Puppetry of the Podcast, is now available to download (click the link for a streaming Quicktime file). Unfortunately, it was shot from an odd angle, but you still get to see most of what he was talking about fairly well. Most of the content will...

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22 Feb 2009 Hoggworks’ True Tales of Puppetry
Hoggworks’ True Tales of Puppetry

Having a conversation with a puppet while building a new version of the same puppet is either very meta, or very weird. This morning I was at Podcamp and sat in on Brian Hogg’s Puppetry of the Podcast presentation (it was streamed live on the web and a recording should be online soon). It was...

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13 Nov 2008
Puppet Video Flame War

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...

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20 Oct 2008
A Hoggworks Wedding

Congratulations go out to Hoggworks‘ Brian Hogg and Madelyne Hilker, who got hitched over the weekend! As longtime PuppetVision readers know, Brian is the mad genius behind the dotBoom and Ask Palpatine puppet podcasts and Madelyne (officially credited on the dotBoom web site as “Executive Ass-Kicking Coordinamatron”) is a puppet builder and costumer on most...

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20 May 2008
Take The Stephen Colbert Puppet Challenge

DotBoom’s Brian Hogg has a plan to get himself and his puppet on The Colbert Report. Brian Hogg has finally launched his Stephen Colbert Puppet Challenge (see previous post). Basically, it’s an elaborate scheme to get Colbert to guest star in the second season of dotBoom and to get Brian on his show to give...

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14 Feb 2008
Stephen Colbert Puppet

A Stephen Colbert puppet-in-progress. Work on Brian Hogg’s Stephen Colbert Puppet Challenge seems to be progressing nicely (it’s an idea so crazy it just might work). Check out Brian’s Colbert puppet pics on...

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06 Jan 2008
Ask The Emperor

Ask Palpatine is a new Star Wars-themed puppet podcast from Hoggworks. From the such-a-good-idea-you-wish-you’d-thought-of-it-first file comes Ask Palpatine from Hoggworks (let’s hope no one tells the Ninja…he seems like a testy sort of...

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14 Oct 2007
dotBoom Asks The Optimist

Season one of dotBoom may be over (see previous post), but creator Brian Hogg has been branching out. His latest endeavor is an adaption of Ask the Optimist by George Saunders featuring the dotBoom puppets and web superstars like Jonathan Coulton, John Hodgman, Jesse Thorn and Xeni Jardin. (Sorry for the lack of a graphic,...

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22 Sep 2007 Back Online and Catching Up
Back Online and Catching Up

Sorry for the lack of updates while I was away last week. Here’s a run down of interesting puppet-related stuff that was happening while I was away: Seattle’s Train of Thought (creators of the previously-blogged Fergalicious and Puppet Tom) have created a brand new Sesame Street parody called Grover Interrogation. Brian Hogg has created puppets...

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09 Sep 2007
dotBoom Season Finale

Popular puppet podcast dotBoom has just released it’s 28th and final episode. The 28th and finale episode of dotBoom was released today. In true dotBoom style it’s chok-full of guest stars from the web and podcasting world including NPR’s Jesse Thorn, Amber MacArthur, Ben Jones (of Jigsaw fame), and the music of Merlin Mann. As...

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