But it’s okay, this is just part 2. Part 1 was “The screwed up first attempt”.
This is what I do to reward myself for progress on my Thesis.
I apologize that this is more discussion of what I’m doing/have done than showing, but I made it a little more entertaining to watch.
I’m also doing this to get an idea of timing in videos/play. Apparently that’s crucial to making things interesting.
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Let me start by apologizing. I read most of the other work put up on the site, but my literary background is non-existent. I don’t have anything productive to add to your works. I likes ‘em though, for what it’s worth.
So, Puppets Put in Plaster, Pantomimical Pastiches of Present P….
Stuff.
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Mache Mardis!
Imagine an accent there, so that it’s Mach-EH Mar-dees.
So, my puppet pal and I have conspired to turn Tuesdays (the titular Mardi) into Paper Mache (ditto, for Mache. I.E. the titular Mache. Geez, keep up) Tuesdays. Or Mardi Mache. Geez, keep up.
This is/was mostly an experiment in the medium, to see if we can make puppet features (heads, mostly, but why not hands, feet and torsos?) that are, at once, light, durable and reproducible on the cheap.
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For those of you following my few sparse posts, I’m doing a puppet play sometime.
So, it came in a flash that I’ve been thinking too hard about the play as a serious topic. I’m not too serious a fellow, so there’s really no point in doing it straight. I’d just be fighting myself.
So, instead, it’ll be (I pray) funny!
I’m writing this here because I’ve essentially got the whole plot in my head (time in production after the flash of insight: 30 seconds), but I’ve been in a slump for a couple of weeks (not working on a thesis can do that!) so I hereby pledge, by the honour of greyskull, that I will have a draft script for your enjoyment next week.
Maybe sooner if the ‘puppetry’ category gets a capital p.
Don’t mean to startle you, but there’s a minor update to the Puppet Plays post I did a while back.
And an idea – How many of you would, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, stop by an outdoor puppet theatre for the latest installment of some serialized puppet play. 1$ for entry, maybe 1$ for popcorn… What do you think?
- What about a serialized Web Puppet show? I guess it would depend on the quality, but …
Me buds and I are trying to figure out how to not lose money doing puppetry. One has a particularly… Ambitious vision. I’m trying to think small potatoes. It may end up being big potatoes, the way I do things.
So I’m not sure how I’m going to handle this, but my goal is to work on a play through this blog. This may turn out terribly intrusive, or simply fall behind all the other entries. We’ll see. New things will appear italicized. Should save some time if you’re interested, but not so devoted you’ll compare the entirety of the post to the previous (”Ah hah! He changed the spelling of Analyze to Analyse!!”).
This will be sort of ongoing, I think. But I’ve reached a good point in my thes… Puppet. His name should be Mr. Maudit-SRP, but there you go. I’ll post more pics. Things that are going to have to happen to him:
He’s been made with a number of replaceable parts. His legs are sort of set to be replaced when I have access to Asa’s puppets, so I can see the proper way to do knees and hips, but they’re quite functional. They just don’t have the full range of movement. The hands are, if I may say, brilliant. I’ve put armature wire in the foam for each of the fingers so they’re poseable. He’s not giving the peace sign, he’ll be holding a cigarette and a coffee cup in that hand.
More later.
