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Read a blog post about making my giant puppet for last year's Beltane.
It's designed to foreshorten a little - the head and shoulders are to a noticeably smaller scale than the buttocks and legs, to give an overall effect of towering even more than it really does.
Eventually I attached a human-scale mask to it, which was really a bit too small for the head; I decided to make it explicitly a mask, hung on by string, so it didn't need to be to scale, but I still rather wish I'd made it a little bigger.
When I took it out later for the Leith Festival, I did in fact make a bigger mask for it.
"Welcome to my world, that's painted with sadness
There's no light of sun, there you can't hear any sound at all
Here I'm waiting silently for you, father
Why were you so cruel, why'd you leave mary alone?"
[Puppet - Ib]
Hello my dear, unfortunately the Halloween 2019 ended and the ghosts hid in the shadows again. It was a honor to scare you all! :3
However this was not the end of our meeting. Keep up following us to see more pics soon!
Fallen Puppeteer Model - Kuroda Yue
Photoshoot and edition by Kuroda Kiba.
✿ 黒田
Bedford Bears hand puppet designed by me many years ago.
Crazy Tuesday Theme: Soft Toys
Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊
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Every war is the senseless destruction of lives
in the interests of the arms industry and a few deranged fanatics!
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Bronze sculpture "Helter"
by Thomas Virnich, 2015
(180° turned)
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Water puppetry – known in Vietnam as Múa rối nước, meaning ‘making puppets dance on water’ – is a Vietnamese tradition steeped in history, folklore and mystery. To this day, when visitors to Hanoi flock to the main theatre to experience the unusual art, it isn’t known how the little figures are mastered so seamlessly by hidden puppeteers.
The art dates back to the 11th century on the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam, when rice farmers began to craft their puppets and create shows to entertain their family and locals once the difficult harvest season had finished. They also believed the shows kept the naughty spirits distracted from any mischief making, which could harm their crops.
The farmers built pagodas above their rice paddies and held community festival shows there to show off their creations and well-practised puppeteering skills. It’s thought that the water aspect came in when large floods hit the rice paddies at Red River Delta and farmers adapted their conventional puppetry, operating the wooden figures from waist-deep water. Thus, the liquid stage – which hides the puppeteers, helps with acoustics and gives the show a mystical shimmer – was born.
These people in their colourful outfits played the music that accompanied the show
I have been wanting to do this picture for so long. October had me in the mood for some dark and evil imagery...and while this isn't actually evil, it certainly is dark! This dress was made by a very talented artist, Anastasia Every, send from England :) I thought well, if I am going to hold a photo contest with the theme Supernatural, I might as well play the game!
I want to announce a new exhibition I have coming up in December. It is at the Annenberg Space for Photography in LA, and I've written a blog post all about it with pics from a documentary I shot with them for the show. Details here! :) The biggest shock of this show is that I get to exhibit with and meet Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor, who I have long admired as brilliant artists. I'm very excited!
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