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Colorful puppets hang in the downtown market of Bagan, the only market I attended that could be called a tourist trap. The center of it was all handicrafts, carvings, jewelry, all kids of stuff. Some of it was very nice, but I was travelling light, so photos were all I took home with me.
Nitsana Lazarus brought her amazing show Puppet Commotion back to the library. The kids loved all of the different puppets and the audience participation.
This is Marty Allen. Marty Allen makes sock puppets. Marty then stands in Union Square with all of his creations wearing goggles and doing an impressive job trying to sell them. Well let me tell you... you've sold me. Marty, you had me at sock puppets. The goggles were just icing on the cake.
In all seriousness, what Marty makes is pretty neat stuff. Once he creates a new sock puppet, he then names the puppet, creating an entire profile for the character, then takes a photo and places it in a very ornate little frame. They're all pretty cool, and you can see them and learn more at www.martystuff.com
added note: on the link to the Mystery video... do yourself a favor and don't read the comments below it. Your head might explode from all the abbreviations from all the A.F.C's.
China. Fujian province. Xiamen.
Built in 1921, Hi Heaven (Chinese: æµ·å¤©å ‚) is the largest old villas on the Gulangyu Island, Xiamen City. Nicknamed as "the Xintiandi" in Xiamen, which is a recreational zone akin to the one in Shanghai, Hi Heaven is the most fashionable and exquisite cultural attraction on the island.
Hi Heaven consists of five buildings, of which three of them are opened to the public, namely No.34, No. 38 and No.42. The No.34 is a café, decorated in southeast Asia style, is a perfect place for a leisure coffee and mind wandering in a sunshine afternoon. The No. 38 is the most characteristic architecture, which is an art gallery displaying the past stories of the old villas and the celebrities once living there. No.42 is a performance center for the Chinese non-material cultural heritages, the magnificent ancient South Music and the fantastic Puppet Show. South Music was formed in Tang Dynasty, which is a performance of a group of people playing with different Chinese orchestral instruments, such as Pipa (a plucked string instrument) and Xiao (a vertical bamboo flute). Puppet show is a traditional show of puppet acrobatics and dramas in China which can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms Period.
As a combinative model of Chinese style and western style, Hi Heaven standing among the numerous exotic architectures in Gulangyu looks vividly unique. Built in symmetrical layout, with a traditional Chinese gateway and overhanging multi-eaves, the walls and corners are also in Chinese ways, while the columns of the buildings are in ancient Greek style, and most of the window decorations are in western style. The central building of Hi Heaven was once a foreign club, and later rebuilt into a palatial architecture by the returned overseas Chinese Huang Xiulang. The most originality of this building is its pavilion-shaped roof with a magic gourd on the top. This "pavilion" is a decorated octangle caisson ceiling which can be accessible from the stairways on the second floor. All the lintels of gates, windows, corridors and halls adorned with cement carving, corners with flowers and plants, and beams with dragon and phoenix
Some of the 55 cookies made for and with Sarah and Michelle. These are further to some cookies I made a while back. these will be sold over the next few days to help raise funds to pay for the production of a DVD based upon the puppet. See this link for the puppet www.flickr.com/photos/lisas_cakes/3634030568/
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):
Access more resources about this media project on:
showwithmedia.com/puppet-video/
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The puppet was made by Bruce Rowland and dressed by me. The head was made from fibreglass and the hands, feet and legs carved from wood. The helmet, shield and lance were made on a 3D printer.
Read a blog post about making my giant puppet for last year's Beltane.
Judging by this photo, the puppet's about 10' 8" from its feet to the tip of its horns (of which the antlers account for about 2 feet). Between us we're about 12'7" tall; I'm 6'1" on my own, if I remember right - might be closer to 6'2", in which case all these heights should be adjusted upward a little.