I’m a filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppeteers and puppetry around the world.
Build process for "Metsanhenki", a large puppet in conjunction with the Helsinki Festival in Finland.
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Build process for "Metsanhenki", a large puppet in conjunction with the Helsinki Festival in Finland.
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Building "The Bloody Hero" a Steampunk Superhero Puppet
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A look inside the hand of a hand and rod puppet
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Wheatley (from the video game Portal) puppet build
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Ha!
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Piramide de los Nichos, El Tajin, Papantla, Mexico. Really fascinating and important Mesa-American archaeological site I visted several times in 2005-07.
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Animatronic Singing Beaker-bot
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I really wanted to like Strings The Documentary, but I found it incredibly frustrating to watch. Excuse the shaky camera work and disjointed editing and watch this to hear what its subjects have to say about puppetry as an...
It's not often that a puppeteer gets attention from a celebrity outfit like TMZ, so it was a surprise to learn that marionette master Scott Land made an appearance on the show...
Jodie Foster's long-delayed film The Beaver finally debuted this weekend. It stars Mel Gibson as Walter, a depressed middle-aged man on the verge of losing his family who heals himself thanks to a discarded beaver handpuppet he finds in the...
Etsy profiles puppeteer/builder Stacey Gordon in their latest “Handmade Portrait”. The latest video in Etsy’s Handmade Portraits series profiles puppeteer Stacey Gordon (aka Staceyrebecca). Stacey’s well-known in the online puppetry community and on Etsy where she sells some of the coolest finger puppets you’ll ever see. As a puppeteer Stacey’s performed extensively at the Great...
I just wanted to send out special congratulations to author, puppeteer and frequent blogger Mary Robinette Kowal, whose short story Evil Robot Monkey was just nominated for a prestigious Hugo Award. She’s nominated alongside the likes of Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctrow and Joss Whedon so this is a very, very big deal. You can find...
Hank Stohl was a star puppeteer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the early days of television. I’m sad to report that we’ve lost another of the early pioneers of television puppetry. Henry “Hank” Stohl – a well-known as a puppeteer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1950s and `60s – passed away on Monday after a long...
The Seattle Times profiled puppeteer Carroll Spinney earlier this year. This was published back in June, but I only discovered it this week and I wanted to share – a nice profile of Big Bird/Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney by the Seattle Times. Oh, and in case you in missed it, here’s the Sesame...
It seems to be puppeteer interview week here on PuppetVision (check out previously blogged chats with Steve Whitmire and John Kennedy) so here’s one more, this time it’s Bibliophile Stalker chatting with the very talented Mary Robinette Kowal. For more about Mary check out her website...
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...
Puppeteer John Kennedy recently had a chat about his work with parenting blog Parent Zing! Hot on the heels of Tough Pigs’ week with Steve Whitmire, here’s an interview with John Kennedy. In it, John discusses his career and some of the current projects he’s working on, like the The Sure...
Puppeteer Steve Whitmire and his alter-ego Kermit the Frog. Toughpigs ran a fantastic interview with Steve Whitmire this past week (click for parts one, two, three, four and five). In it, Joe Hennes chats with Steve about a bunch of topics, including the recent Muppet viral videos, the upcoming Letters To Santa special, the touchy...
Alexander Winfield spent the past summer performing full-time on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street. One day this past summer I was walking along Queen West in Toronto and did a double take when I saw a puppet being performed from a burlap sack on sidewalk. I was in a rush so I couldn’t stop long enough...