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 [...]
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 [...]
Check it out, everybody:
http://www.forum.askpalpatine.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=52
We’re now in the voting phase, and I want to thank, again, everybody who submitted a design. We got some fantastic pieces of work sent to us; really tremendous stuff. Thanks also to our panel of celebrity judges, who are now faced with the unenviable task of actually picking the best [...]
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 [...]
We review the new Clone Wars movie, with help from a special guest: Darth Dracus from the forums!
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 [...]
(Full title edited in deference to the fact that it contains the swear words)
(Which I like. I LIKE the swear words. But it might be off-putting to have it in the title)
A friend of mine sent me a link this morning to “ED’s Furry Fucking Guide to Metal,” a video by the character Edward Tubbs, [...]
Since this blog is meant as a peek behind the curtain, we thought we’d pass along links to some public Evernote notebooks we’re using right now to keep track of things we might look to for inspiration, and things me might want to buy to help build puppets.
Here’s our photoreference feed: http://www.evernote.com/pub/hoggworks/PuppetPhotoRef
Here’s our supplies-to-possibly-buy feed: [...]