Tag Archives: podcasts

Jay ThePal

Jay ThePal (and Kay ThePal) seem to be popping up all over social media lately.
It took me a little while to figure out what was up with Jay ThePal, a puppet character that seemed to start popping up all over every social media website that you can think of lately. I think I first saw [...]

Transylvania TV Happenings

Transylvania TV is preparing it’s second season.
Production on Transylvania TV (see previous post) seems to be humming along nicely. The show is holding auditions for new puppeteers and also running a puppet design competition called the “Lose Your Intellectual Property Contest” (hey, at least they’re honest about it!).
Season two of Transylvania TV debuts online July [...]

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 Case Against Bad Puppetry

I’ve been writing PuppetVision for about five years and blogging about puppetry on the internet since 2003. One of the coolest things about doing this has been all the amazing puppetry work I’ve gotten to see and the incredible puppeteers and puppet builders I’ve gotten to know. For every person who’s ever sent me an [...]

Zerks’ Log

Zerks’ Log chronicles the voyage of a doomed spaceship Venturi 553.
Zerks’ Log is one of the most impressive puppetry web series I’ve seen. It’s an 18 episode series (the season is currently 11 episodes in) about Captain Zerks Ganymedewski and his ship the Venturi 553, which disappeared without a trace. The story is told through [...]

New Potter Puppet Pals – Ron’s Disease

Ron’s Disease is the latest installment of Potter Puppet Pals.
The latest installment of Neil Cicierega’s popular Potter Puppet Pals hit the web earlier this week. See what those crazy wizard kids are up to in Ron’s Disease – now with Hagrid!

Behind the Scenes at Transylvania TV

Minnewood takes a look behind the scenes of Transylvania TV.
Minnewood has a great video that takes a behind the scenes look at Transylvania TV. For my money “TVTV” is one of the best puppet podcasts to emerge on the web so far and possibly the best looking too. In the video co-creators Gordon Smuder and [...]

Tuck and Snippit on Threadbanger

The Tuck and Snippit Show is a new DIY fashion podcast created by Little’s Creatures.
Little’s Creatures (see previous post) just shot a pilot for a new podcast on Threadbanger, the cleverly-titled The Tuck and Snippit Show. Threadbanger is a DIY fashion site that’s part of Next New Networks – the company behind the excellent websites [...]

Spook House Dave

Spook House Dave is a new puppet series from the creators of Apollo’s Pad.Spook House Dave is a new, in-the-works show for kids from Atlanta-based Dragonfruit Studios. They’re the same folks behind Apollo’s Pad, although the puppetry for Spook House Dave is done by a different team that consists of Lucky Yates, Jason von Hinezmeyer [...]

Transylvania TV invades YouTube

Transylvania TV’s Count LeShoc stars in a series of “TVTV” webisodes.
Gordon Smuder is pushing ahead with Transylvania TV (see previous posts). He and his team are in the midst of producing several short web videos featuring the TVTV characters and have just uploaded four new webisodes on YouTube. As much as I liked the full-length [...]