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This two sided pendant use different bits of watercolor clay and strips of scrap clay...lots of fun! The upper picture can look like a desert scene or a threatening monster if you turn it upside down!
I have no idea who these two girls were or where they came from but I loved this. The puppets were playing along to I Could Be Happy by Altered Images, which I was particularly impressed with since their puppetmasters (mistresses?) clearly hadn't even been born in the 1980s. Cheapside Street Fayre, Celebrate the City, in the Square Mile of the City of London. June 2012
Edit: It's The Little Theatre Of Dolls (Frida Alvinzi and Raisa Veikkola). They're not just puppeteers, they also build the puppets and write the plays. And they were born in the 1980s after all, but still aren't old enough to remember Altered Images. (Thanks Abaraphobia for identifying them.)
Posable puppet theater marionette doll by Chydiki. You can find me on Etsy www.etsy.com/shop/Chydiki
String puppet, found in the streets of Prague (then CSSR, Czechoslovakia) on Sunday 21 April 1974.
(photo ca. 1980)
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epson scan of old photo by me
Explored Jan 9, 2008 #237
Puppet Master
Someone pulls the strings, We are but puppets created for a play,
Made to dance or walk or fall, For the puppet masters whim,
Who writes my lines? Choosing the characters that I play?
Can it be I have a choice, To cut the strings and walk away?
It it then I'll know the secret? Understand who controls the fates?
That I will be taken from this stage, and saved for another play?
Will I ever know the answer, to make the knowledge my joy?
Or am I paying for an indiscretion, a failure from another scene?
Do we keep repeating and rehersing our lines, Until we get it right?
And for every error that mankind makes, does the puppetmaster start anew?
The treadmill that we walk, Monuments which we sometimes pass
Several times in rememberance, De ja vous of a tomorrow that we've already played.
This water puppet theater performance lasted approximately 45 minutes. I am used to Regal Cinemas in Portland, Oregon where these huge warnings are given. "Turn off your cell phones. No recording under penalty of both hands being removed from your body…" or something like that. Hanoi, no warnings, no rules. Cameras, videos, cell phones, iPads, samsung tablets--all allowed. So this is my contribution to the fray. Live performers/musicians on the left side. Puppeteers behind the curtain manipulating everything in the water. Next to me, two young kids, both with ADHD, bouncing off the seats. Attention spans of about 30 seconds. Three seats for two adults and two kids. The father finally got up and moved to a different row leaving the mom with two hyperactive kids and me. great performance anyway.
From an exhibit of Jim Henson's puppets in the American History Museum.
Sorry about the glare of the flash.
Puppet show by a German couple at the Kala Ghoda arts festival in Bombay. Check out the story here - www.caferati.com/kgaf/?p=48
Puppet Heap Owner and Proprietor Paul Andrejco at the Puppet Heap workshop in Hoboken, New Jersey. (RJ Mickelson/amNY)
Locally called Kathputli - the colourful string puppets of Rajasthan are made of wood and cloth. The head of the puppets are carved out of wood and coloured according to characters they depict in the episodes.
Strings are attached to the head for manipulation. The faces are usually
painted yellow, white or any light colour. The body, up to the waist and
hands, is made of stuffed rags, cotton or cloth bits. The hands have no
joints unlike the other string puppets of India.
The absence of legs are not noticed due the long trailing skirt made of
colorful cloth.
It was a Summer Reading Extravaganza by Puppet Pizzazz! The kids saw some amazing puppets in action!
Bob Walls, puppeteer extraordinaire, and his hand- carved, beautifully costumed Stevens Puppets Marionettes take us to the magical, beautiful, and dangerous land of Oz in this fantasy adventure for the whole family.