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Day 2: I love puppets. The Muppet Show. Avenue Q. The Storyteller (especially this!). I've always loved the shows that feature these type of puppets.
Continuing with my monochromatic theme this week. I took this with my new Tokina 12-24 wide angle lens. I like the lens. But my joy is dampened by the fact that the autofocus is not working. Gotta figure that out.
Tomorrow I get up before dawn to go photograph the sunrise and the tulip fields at the Tulip Festival in Mount Vernon.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Beginner Ventriloquism
This instructional DVD teaches the basic and advanced techniques for learning ventriloquism. Learn how to talk without moving your lips, develop a personality and manipulation skills for your figure, and how to prepare for and get shows. Packed with techniques and tips, this video is an invaluable tool for the entry-level ventriloquist.
Chapters:
Introduction, Breathing exercises, Ventriloquist’s mouth position, Ventriloquist’s alphabet, Pronouncing the labials: W, Y, V, F, B, P, and M, Distant ventriloquism, Developing a puppet voice, Puppets’ background & history, Types of puppets, Puppet manipulation, Puppet positions, The art of the joke, Pre-show preparation, Getting shows, Showtime!
Magical Mike is a performing entertainer and has released over 50 educational books and videos covering such topics as mathematics, engineering, and the martial and entertainment arts.
Instructional DVD /2015/ Approximately 80 minutes.
Available at www.fightandentertain.com, www.createspace.com/850016103, and
The puppet theatre in My Big Backyard is perfect for puppet shows and morality plays of all kids.
Memphis Botanic Gardens
Memphis, Tenn.
These wooden hinged dolls are used with a board that is vibrated by hand. The puppets feet are standing on the board and as the board is twanging up and down it hits the feet and makes the puppets dance. They can be made to dance a rhythem which sounds like tap dancing or step dancing. It's a French Canadian folk art. I haven't a clue what they are really called
HDR
This old sketch was for a really deep theater that i thought i had a chance to build, but knew i had no clue what to do with.
1.) There were puppets behind a shadow screen in the background.
2.) conventional rod and hand puppets appeared in front of the screen.
3.) Narrative actor appeared in front of the stage/wall.
Step back in history more than 200 years and take in the sights, sounds and smells of medieval times.
The annual Medieval Fair has put the small rural town of Balingup, a region of fruit orchards, on the map. Thousands of tourists fill accommodation in Balingup and the beautiful surrounding areas of Boyanup and Donnybrook to see this history-filled two day event on the last weekend in August each year.
Everyone from the locals to the tourists are dressed in medieval garb and walking through the Balingup Woods you pass stalls that sell hand-made medieval-styled jewellery, helmets, gloves and armour and swords. Sawdust has been laid thick on the ground to keep it dry but the winter showers have turned the ground to slippery mud. Bare-footed country lads run past with mud spattered trousers. Ladies in flowing gowns, their heads crowned with flower wreaths and golden belts at their waists walk past, their hems soaked with muddy rainwater.
There are medieval wood turners, old fashioned axes, alpaca wool clothing, belt spinners, puppets and puppeteers, baubles and drawings.
There are colours everywhere – belly dancers, hunters, weavers, rune readers, wizards, Picts and slaves, flags, gemstones and jesters.
You hear the sounds of clashing swords, booing crowds, violinists, medieval drummers (now that’s some hip medieval music!), public speakers and young boys smashing wooden swords together, practicing to be knights.
We meet a knight from the Grey Company. During the day he’s a primary school teacher. On weekends, with long hair and plaits, he hones his sword swinging skills on the battlefield against others in his Company. He has forged his own sword complete with dents and dinks, linked every link of his chainmail shirt, sewn every shingle of his leather vest and can tell you the history and handling of the long sword and seems to have a permanent smile on his face. Did you know that the lanyard you use to hang your mobile phone around your neck originated in medieval times to secure a weapon to the fighter's hand?
The Arena is where all the action is. Not only knights battling knights but Roman Gladiators versus slaves. Our history lesson includes the different kinds of Gladiators including the Retiarius who carried a trident and a net, the Murmillones who wore a helmet in the shape of a stylised fish and the Gladatrix – the female gladiator. Gladiators trained with wooden swords and those who won their fights and therefore won their freedom were presented with a similar wooden sword. We also met with the Gladiators foe – the slaves, criminals or prisoners of war such as the painted blue Picts who almost always met their untimely death in the arena!
If you have nothing to do for that one weekend in August and don’t mind a bit of mud and a lot of colour, noise, smells and fun, then book a trip to the Medieval Fair. Just make sure you book well in advance!
Original design by Omri. Susie made the puppet. Find the template at www.easy-child-crafts.com and enjoy!
These finger puppets are like little sculptures you can play with.
Materials: Creative Paperclay® over a wooden base, painted with
gouache paint and varnished with waterbased acrylic varnish.
Making traditional Javanese Shadow Puppets at the Sultan's Kraton in Yogyakarta. A reused bicycle spoke and mallet are used to perforate the buffalo hide leather.
©A.Capellmann
Minolta XE-1; MC W.ROKKOR 28mm f/1:2; Agfa APX100@400ISO
1h semi-stand dev. Adox Adonal 1:100, adofix