Ask Palpatine was recently reviewed by Tubefilter News, in a post titled “Review: The Latest in Puppet-Themed Web Series.”
The author, Arjun Sharma, speaks at first about the lack of adult-themed puppet shows, or his lack of awareness of adult-themed puppet shows, aside from Crank Yankers. Puppets who Kill immediately springs to mind, as does Greg [...]
A little while ago, we moved into a new house in Guelph. At the same time (or, more correctly, about a month before) the lease on our previous studio expired, and we’ve yet to locate a suitable space in our new city (we could be commuting from Kitchener to Guelph, but that’s a 30 minute [...]
By way of Boingboing, Mary Robinette Kowal talks about the reason that professional puppets are so expensive. Not to spoil the punch-line for you, but it ain’t the materials you’re paying for, it’s the time, effort, and expertise of the puppet-builder.
While I agree with Mary’s concern about the perception of the cost of building a [...]
This is something we’re working on (based on a design provided to us). This is the paper-prototyping stage; once it’s nailed down, we use the paper pieces as the pattern to make the foam skeleton.
Here I link to a post on complex.com, listing 5 puppets and hip-hop collaborations. And I’m not even going to add any commentary to it:
http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/08/12/the-unauthorized-history-of-puppets-in-hip-hop/
Okay, my only bit of commentary is that I hadn’t seen many of these, and while the Kanye West video is technically nice, I don’t dig it all that much, but [...]
By way of Andrew Young, I came across an article in the National Post, called “Puppets Ahoy!” The tagline is “Against all odds, the googly-eyed are making a cultural comeback.” It’s true, certainly, and it’s a reasonable encapsulation of some of the current spots where puppetry is blooming, but it seemed a fairly superficial rundown [...]
I’m working on a design for a new puppet (for a couple, actually), with one hopefully getting made over the weekend in an atypically rush-rush kind of manner. I’m going to see how little sleep I can manage with, how quickly I can build the thing, and how little I can skimp on the quality. [...]