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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Part of Spitting Image's legacy is that it inspired a series of similar shows around the world. One of the most recent examples is ZA News, a web series that pokes fun at politics in South Africa, which has a strong tradition of political...
Every Bomb You Drop is probably the most famous of the Spitting Image musical parodies and was one of the most poingent segments that the show ever produced....
Back in 2005 The British Film Institute hosted a special tribute to the series that included a panel discussion with several members of the Spitting Image creative team, including co-creator Peter Fluck, voice artist Steve Nallon and puppeteer Louise Gold....
The Margaret Thatcher puppet was undoubtedly one of the biggest stars of Spitting Image and as a deeply conservative Prime Minister, one of the show's favourite targets. This is one of the show's best Margaret Thatcher...
Nothing was sacred to Spitting Image, least of all religion. My God Is Bigger Than Your God was probably one of the show's most pitch perfect musical satires and it is just as relevant today as the day it was...