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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:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884
Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:
Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):
If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
(Robert Burton)
Exhibition by www.hetfirmament.be/ at Hingene (Kasteel d'Ursel)
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):
“We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.”
― (Alan Moore, Watchmen) ―
Puppet head lamp in a shopwindow somewhere in northwest Oregon.
I saw this collection of vintage puppets (the kind with plastic heads and cloth bodies) at the Antique Mall in The Forks
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What's a puppet to do when he's not allowed down a path because he has no feet? Photo taken at Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah.
From a production of "Moth and Moon"- if I recall correctly- by Sandglass Theater of Putney Vermont. Seen on display in a window at the box office for the Puppets In The Green Mountain festival this past weekend. Sandglass is one of my favorite companies in the compelling world of puppetry.
www.recyclart.org/2011/02/mummenschanz-puppet/
A Mummenschanz inspired puppet is made from an egg carton.
++ More info. at Family Chic website !
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):
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Change the species and this was the type of puppetry done in the show last week. We wore all black, including black screens over our faces. The puppet bodies were strapped to our torsos, and we manipulated the arms and head. Generally my puppet's left arm was fastened in place so I could concentrate on moving the head and right hand.
There were a few other puppets (including the crane from Monday and one other human puppet that required three handlers), but this was the main type.
Wear the puppet into your two fingers and you are ready to have fun with kids. Tickle baby`s tummy, tell bed time stories to toddler or let children make up their own stories. It is fun for all ages. They are very light so you can take them where you go.
They are very friendly, looking for some friends to play with them. These two finger puppets are perfect gift for baby showers or birthdays.
We were treated to an amusing show complete with a vigorous drumming accompaniment and expressive, wordless buzzing expressions from a device that fit in the puppeteers mouth and transformed his voice into dramatically droning slides snd whoops.
For over a thousand years, performers in Vietnamese water puppet theater have always gotten cold feet. And very wet.
Water puppetry is performed in a chest-deep pool of water, with the water's surface as a stage. The puppeteers stand behind a curtained backdrop. First performed a thousand years ago on the surface of ponds and paddy fields in Vietnam's Red River Delta, water puppetry (roi nuoc in Vietnamese) is the lively creation of farmers who spent their days in flooded rice fields. At some point, they discovered that the water was an excellent medium for puppetry: it not only concealed the puppeteers' rod and string mechanisms, but it also provided exciting effects like waves and splashes.
The water also provides the best setting for the puppeteers' theme: day-to-day village life. Water puppets bring wry humor to scenes of farming, fishing, festival events such as buffalo fights, and children's games of marbles and coin-toss. Fishing turns into a game of wits between the fisherman and his prey, with the fisherman getting the short end (often capturing his surprised neighbor by mistake). Besides village life, scenes include legends and national history. Lion dogs romp like puppies while dragons exhale smoke and shoot sprays of water at the audience. Performances of up to 18 short scenes are usually introduced by a pig-tailed bumpkin known as Teu, and accompanied by a small folk orchestra.
Paper Puppets by Martha Stewart Create at Wal-Mart.
Paper Puppets by Martha Stewart Create at Wal-Mart.
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(Part.3)
El mundo está en mí. ¿No me apartaré?.
Acojo todos los colores y el estío dentro de mi otoño.Porque sé que no hay fin, que no habrá término.
Yo soy el infinito proyecto de mí misma y por encima de mí, me sobrevuelo.
"Entonces,por un momento, ahora, sin voluntad...y casi está bien.Hasta pensar en estar bien y convertirlo en nube. En trayectoria".
(C.Maillard)
(Fotografía "minorista")
Three beautiful wood carvings of women caught my eye in a storefront on Throckmorton Ave. They could be used as puppets, with moveable arms and heads, and are really artfully done. They are nice inspirations for the poetic robots I would like to build next. I hope we can do something similar with our next characters, once we’ve mastered the art of moving wonder ducks like Indigo, as shown in this video of his first 'baby steps': www.facebook.com/fabrice.florin/videos/10156226465115506/
In the next few days, I would like to build a few more Wonderbots and see how they behave when when they are brought together in the same space. Then we'll add a storyline, a backdrop, more lights and sounds, with impromptu dialog and music. I can’t wait to see them interact with each other. Stay tuned …
More Wonderbot photos on Flickr:
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):