The original Muppets have returned home to Washington. The Henson family has donated the original Kermit the Frog puppet – famously made by Jim Henson from his mother’s coat and ping pong balls – to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
I’m a little late posting this, but in case you haven’t already listened to it, Steve Swanson had a great chat with Muppeteer Bill Baretta on The Muppetcast a few weeks ago.
The Muppets have really embraced viral video and the web. Case in point is this video from viral video masters OK Go, documenting a run-in they had with the Muppets backstage at the Webby Awards.
Puppeteer Dave Goelz as a Muppet. `Nuff said.
Over at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, Stephen Worth has a short post about animating robots. Stephen mentions how the job description of an animator is rapidly changing and muses about the possibility of animators being hired to “animate” robots, which sounds suspiciously similar to what a puppeteer does. Although robots and automata aren’t generally considered [...]
The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is presenting a lecture and workshop by Steve Whitmire called “Steve Whitmire: Perspectives – The Sentient Puppet” this month.
It’s hard to believe, but handmade puppet films just might be the next big thing.
Can you believe that it’s actually taken the Muppets this long to cover Bohemian Rhapsody? While they certainly weren’t first, I think they (unsurprisngly) might have done it best. Update: So, apparently the Muppets have done Bohemian Rhapsody before after all. They sang it in 2005 on the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (thanks [...]
Is NBC’s 30 Rock based on The Muppet Show? Brian Lynch – screenwriter of the unproduced and literally-titled The Next Muppet Movie – has written a hilarious post on his blog alleging that the NBC comedy 30 Rock is a rip off of The Muppet Show. Although he’s writing with his tongue firmly in his [...]
Jim Henson and Frank Oz on the set of an Orson Wells TV pilot. Orson Welles was well-known as a Muppet fan. He famously appears in a cameo at the end of The Muppet Movie and was once quoted saying “Sesame Street is the greatest thing that ever happened to television.” I had no idea [...]
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