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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:
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Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):
Traditional Thai Puppet Theater,Nattayasala Hun Lakorn Lek(Joe Louis), Suan Lum Night Bazaar, Bangkok, --Thailand--
Introducing Thai Theatrical Puppetry
The thratrical puppetry is unique smong the various forms of puppetry in that each puppet
represents a character taken from the traditional Thai theater. There are three types of
traditional Thai theatrical performances, all of which are stylized, with dancing, singing and music
comparable in complexity with the European opera-ballet of the 18th century French royal
court at Versailles. The most sophisticated od these is khon, which performs only the ramakian
(the Thai versoin of the Indian epic, Ramayana); the less ssophisticated is lakhon, performs all
other classics of Thai drama; and the least sophisticated is likey, which performs common
drames, Thai theatrical puppetry is also unique in that each puppet requires the synchronised
efforts of three puppeteers is its manipulation, all of whom appear on stage with the puppet
and each of whom is khon, lakhon or likay performer in his or her own right. The puppets, in
short, perform khon, lakhon or likay on stage with the puppeteers, where the name 'theatrical
puppetry'.
The Traditional Thai Puppet Theater Company is the authoritative guardian of this dying art
form: the directors and senior members of the troupe are direct artistic seccessors of the
founder of Thai theatrical puppetry. Performances are as unique as they are authentic
Performance at the Traditional Thai Puppet Theater are s showcase for Thailand 's cultural
heritage and reflect the undtinting efforts of the troupe to preserve and perpetuate this exotic art form.
Thanks for information from www.thaipuppet.com/core/content/view/2/6/lang,en/
I was walking through a back alley and saw this just hanging outside someone's window. They must have great festivals.
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).
The vintage dog puppet was definitely adorable, don't get me wrong, but I'm a monster gal.
So I used his ears to make horns, and found some vintage felt and vintage fur, and fixed him up a bit.
I think he wanted me to.
Jon and I are working on a puppet version of me! He made the foam body inside and I sewed the outer body.
I gave her black yarn hair with light blue "highlights" (they're supposed to be grey hairs)
I'm still trying to decide if I like the darker eyelids. I think I like them. I don't wear makeup, but I do have darkness around my eyes.
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
This is one of the puppets. The lower faces were sculpted in a computer and "printed" using rapid prototyping technology. The seam you can see around the eyes was painstakingly removed in post-processing.
Taken for an intranet picture at my place of employment in 2000 or 2001. We did one serious photo and then one wacky photo that popped up when you moused over the serious one.