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We were treated to an amusing show complete with a vigorous drumming accompaniment and expressive, wordless buzzing expressions from a device that fit in the puppeteers mouth and transformed his voice into dramatically droning slides snd whoops.

For over a thousand years, performers in Vietnamese water puppet theater have always gotten cold feet. And very wet.

 

Water puppetry is performed in a chest-deep pool of water, with the water's surface as a stage. The puppeteers stand behind a curtained backdrop. First performed a thousand years ago on the surface of ponds and paddy fields in Vietnam's Red River Delta, water puppetry (roi nuoc in Vietnamese) is the lively creation of farmers who spent their days in flooded rice fields. At some point, they discovered that the water was an excellent medium for puppetry: it not only concealed the puppeteers' rod and string mechanisms, but it also provided exciting effects like waves and splashes.

 

The water also provides the best setting for the puppeteers' theme: day-to-day village life. Water puppets bring wry humor to scenes of farming, fishing, festival events such as buffalo fights, and children's games of marbles and coin-toss. Fishing turns into a game of wits between the fisherman and his prey, with the fisherman getting the short end (often capturing his surprised neighbor by mistake). Besides village life, scenes include legends and national history. Lion dogs romp like puppies while dragons exhale smoke and shoot sprays of water at the audience. Performances of up to 18 short scenes are usually introduced by a pig-tailed bumpkin known as Teu, and accompanied by a small folk orchestra.

Imaginext figure from the Series 8 blind bags. His accessory is a puppet control bar. I found him at a local grocery store in the Seasonal aisle. They were selling them as gifts to go in Easter Baskets.

 

That’s how I got my first Imaginext figure in 2014.

  

52cm high fully articulated puppet replica from the 1960s TV show "Thunderbirds".

 

Made by myself.

PART I: Greece

bicycle tour with puppet show through mediterranean and balkans 2011

(Part.3)

 

El mundo está en mí. ¿No me apartaré?.

Acojo todos los colores y el estío dentro de mi otoño.Porque sé que no hay fin, que no habrá término.

 

Yo soy el infinito proyecto de mí misma y por encima de mí, me sobrevuelo.

  

"Entonces,por un momento, ahora, sin voluntad...y casi está bien.Hasta pensar en estar bien y convertirlo en nube. En trayectoria".

 

(C.Maillard)

 

View On Black

 

(Fotografía "minorista")

Three beautiful wood carvings of women caught my eye in a storefront on Throckmorton Ave. They could be used as puppets, with moveable arms and heads, and are really artfully done. They are nice inspirations for the poetic robots I would like to build next. I hope we can do something similar with our next characters, once we’ve mastered the art of moving wonder ducks like Indigo, as shown in this video of his first 'baby steps': www.facebook.com/fabrice.florin/videos/10156226465115506/

 

In the next few days, I would like to build a few more Wonderbots and see how they behave when when they are brought together in the same space. Then we'll add a storyline, a backdrop, more lights and sounds, with impromptu dialog and music. I can’t wait to see them interact with each other. Stay tuned …

 

More Wonderbot photos on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157660350909609

Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.

 

This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.

 

For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.

 

We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.

 

I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.

 

From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.

 

View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884

 

Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:

bit.ly/ubu-dreams-page

 

Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):

fabriceflorin.com/2015/01/10/theatre-mecanique/

Traditional tourist event in Postojna, Slovenia

Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.

 

This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.

 

For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.

 

We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.

 

I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.

 

From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.

 

View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884

 

Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:

bit.ly/ubu-dreams-page

 

Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):

fabriceflorin.com/2015/01/10/theatre-mecanique/

For Lucy. Size 4. Sarah-Jane 'Out to Sea' and Spotlight seersucker.

 

Shorts are her preferred choice for summer, and while she still fits her old ones (including her original size 2s), I thought that it was time for some new ones, particularly since she starts preschool in a couple of weeks.

A North Vietnam exclusive - Vietnamese folktales and snippets of life, as told through music, song and wooden puppets on an aqueous stage. Very cool.

Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.

 

This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.

 

For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.

 

We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.

 

I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.

 

From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.

 

View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884

 

Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:

bit.ly/ubu-dreams-page

 

Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):

fabriceflorin.com/2015/01/10/theatre-mecanique/

A new dress I made using fabric by cate anevski.

Puppet by madebymoxie!

(in the garden)

PART I: Greece

bicycle tour with puppet show through mediterranean and balkans 2011

Polar fleece puppets made for my grandson to play with

The very famous Rajasthani puppets...seems as if dese are taking a kind of "rest" before they are back in the strings ;)

Kathputli is a string puppet theatre, native to Rajasthan, India, and is the most popular form of Indian puppetry.[1] Being a string marionette, it is controlled by a single string that passes from the top of the puppet over the puppeteers.

 

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathputli_(Puppet)

Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.

 

This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.

 

For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.

 

We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.

 

I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.

 

From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.

 

View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884

 

Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:

bit.ly/ubu-dreams-page

 

Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):

fabriceflorin.com/2015/01/10/theatre-mecanique/

Blade cut his own strings a long time ago.

BJ Guyer on making puppets

I just love the Oliver + S Puppet Show shorts - perfect for little girls this age. Blogged here.

This is replacing the live performance done in this window for Fashion's Night Out 2011. A Bergdorf Goodman window display.

Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.

 

This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.

 

For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.

 

We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.

 

I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.

 

From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.

 

View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884

 

Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:

bit.ly/ubu-dreams-page

 

Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):

fabriceflorin.com/2015/01/10/theatre-mecanique/

Billy the puppet . Do you want to play a game ?

Made for Brickpirate challenge contest : try an horror MOC.

I like the result, I hope you'll like it too...

Billy is the jigsaw puppet announcing the dead game of the serial killer...

 

Fun iPad message announcement...

At the County Museum (Shugborough) there is a huge display of puppets that came from a collector in Abbots Bromley.

Strictly speaking they should be called marionettes because they are on strings, puppets fit on the hand.

Coucou tout le monde ! Je vous souhaite un bon réveillon

Naomi et Alizée font du théâtre avec des marionnettes ! bye

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Hello everybody! I wish you a good New Year's .

Naomi and Alizée go on the stage with puppets ! Bye

Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.

 

This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.

 

For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.

 

We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.

 

I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.

 

From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.

 

View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884

 

Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:

bit.ly/ubu-dreams-page

 

Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):

fabriceflorin.com/2015/01/10/theatre-mecanique/

This was a flexidisc record that came with the 1960s Dick Tracy puppet. I used masking tape to adhere the wobbly disc to a Little Golden Record and its still tightly stuck after all these years. Still plays, too!

From the Den Uyl, Brugge

A close-up of some puppets put up for sale at the Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur

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