This is one of the winning entries from a video contest Foo Fighters held earlier this year called This Video Sucks. It was directed by Phil Hodges and is actually one of two winning entries in the contest that feature puppetry; the other is Daniel Fickle’s video for I Should Have Known.

Special thanks to puppet and Foot Fighters fanatic Johnny B. for sending these in!

I know at least a couple puppeteers who love to make pop-up books. This music video from an unfortunately named band seems to combine those two interests very nicely.

Via Mary Robinette Kowal.

College Humour sends up The Little Mermaid in Kiss The Girl, a hilarious musical parody that’s mildly NSFW and entirely inappropriate children. The puppets in the video were designed and built by James Wojtal, who also performed in the video along with Frankie Cordero (see previous post) and Rei Radilla.

Update: Added the rest of the puppeteers (thanks James!).

Abba: Our Last Video features “4 small puppets who look very much like the original `70s Swedish supergroup ABBA are try to get a recording contract in Stockholm, Sweden 1974,” and with a description like that, honestly, what more do you need to know?

Via Puppeteers Unite.

Puppetables are a series of videos featuring puppets made by German puppet builder extraordinaire Norman Schneider. Due to the language barrier, I really don’t know much else about these, but there are three videos in the series, Marie Luise Sparbier, Schildegart Kröt and my personal favourite, Wurmini.

Via Puppeteers Unite.

Dance *^$&#H Dance is a cool little video put together by Minneapolis-based Interactive and Motion Graphics Designer (and puppeteer) Jordan Stoltz. It’s simple, but kinda funky. I like it.

I seem to be discovering a lot of Japanese stuff lately for no reason other than Japan is a really, really creative place. The latest is this video for a Japanese band called Sour. The music doesn’t do much for me, but it’s a very creative use of hand shadows.

Link via Engrish Brog.

Seems like you’re not a decent musical act these days unless you’ve got yourself a puppet music video. Coldplay is the latest band to follow the trend with Life In Technicolor ii, which is really well done. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end so you don’t miss all the cool little details like the puppet roadies.

Special thanks to Felix for the link!

American rockers Tally Hall have a new music video, The Whole World and You, directed by puppeteer Frankie Cordero and featuring a large cast of puppeteers that included Alissa Hunnicutt, Ken Berman, Serra Hirsch and Eric Wright. The video has a splendid, handmade look to it and is a real visual treat. Be sure to take a look!

Is it just me, or are puppet music videos becoming all the rage lately? The latest I’ve seen is Can’t Go Back Now by The Weepies.

Via Puppeteers Unite.