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around 40 cm in height
30€ (+postage from Slovenia)
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Shorts created in a size 4 using the Puppet Show Shorts pattern by Oliver + S.
Fabrics used: something black from the remnant bin at my local fabric store and a colorful yardstick print I won and have been hoarding!
Modeled by my lovely three year old daughter
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:
Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):
this little penguin finger puppet has been needle and wet felted with merino wool. He comes with his own needle felted stand.
A Puppet Storybook ~ COUNTING RHYMES ~ Ten Little Indians, pictures by T Izawa & S Hijikata. A Grosset & Dunlap book 1968
Wayang golek are wooden doll puppets that are operated from below by rods connected to the hands and a central control rod that runs through the body to the head. The simple construction of the puppets belies their versatility, expressiveness and aptitude for imitating human dance.
The Most Famous Wayang Golek's Dalang in Indonesia are Mr. Asep Sunandar Sunarya (showed in picture).
Instruction 25: 'Talk to strangers, let them take you to places' (Mark Alor Powell). I've always wanted to talk to David Perry, the famous Norwich puppet man (all you need to know is at www.norwichpuppetman.co.uk/about.php).......His battered tape player is falling to bits and his tapes of 60s pop have seen better days, but he's a delightful man. I picked this shot mainly for the disapproving look the woman walking behind him is giving me.
Carved laminated MDF based upon a polystyrene model using layer stencils
Automata prototype #4
July 2011
For more on this, arduino stuff and other daft things see the "Making weird stuff" blog