It’s been awhile since I posted one of these. I’ve been editing and set poor Pimi to the side. I’m not sure how many words I’ve written today, because I forgot to look at my wordcount before I started. First: Pimi fingered a length of cloth on a low shelf in the clothier’s shop. Last: […]
I love the music video we are shooting today, which is a good thing, considering how many times we have to listen to it. We did some fun choreography with live hands, pretty complicated stuff involving two puppets and an actor, but we had time to practise it and nailed it in two takes. We
All in all a fairly uneventful day. The puppetry was all on an elevated set, which meant that there was very little for Emily and I to do for the puppeteers. I did a little bit of live hand work, but other than that very little. It’s the sort of day that is fairly excruitating
We were released for a couple hours in the middle of the day because they had a lot of scenes without puppets to get through. It’s like we turn into kids on a teacher workday when this happens. Everyone frantically tries to make the most of the time and we all run out of the
I love Modern Mechanix. Today they’ve got Mechanical Secrets of Marionette Shows Part I. This is an article about Tony Sarg, one of the forefathers of American puppetry. Check it out.
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As you might imagine, the characters on the show spend a lot of time eating “sports candy.” The puppets can’t actually take a bite, so I wind up doing one of my favorite theater tricks. The apple already has bite in it but that part of the apple is held upstage so the audience can’t
Cat Rambo at suite101 interviewed me about my work with Shimmer. We also touched on art, writing and puppetry. Check it out.
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Waking up was hard. I had planned on going to the ten o’clock panel, but by the time we checked out and put our luggage in the car it was 10:30. We wound up catching up with some folks and chatting until the eleven o’clock panels started. I went to the Interstitial Arts discussion, which
Well, I’m on my way to Readercon today. I’ll be in the U.S. until Sunday. My plane won’t land in Iceland until Monday morning, so I’ll be walking straight onto set. That should be fun. Mmmm. Jet-lag and puppets. Who could ask for more. While I’m there, I’ll have my cellphone for dire emergencies, but
Today was long, but good. One of the puppets had to throw this thing, which was challenging but not impossible with live hands. There were a limited number of configurations in which it could happen, but we knew that going into it and were planning on using the easiest of those options. Then, of course,
Wayne came to work with us today. He got to see a couple of stunts, which are always fun and he got to see some puppetry, so that was a pretty good mix. The puppetry today was fun, but unfortunately the details are really plot specific so I’m not going to go into them this
When we arrived at the studio, Audrey immediately started sniffing the ground of the lobby, like she could tell her human was there. So I let her off lead and she started tracing the path, looking for her girl. Oh, what a happy reunion they had. It was really sweet. Audrey was vibrating with excitement.
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Today was the first day back at work and I seemed to spend most of the day working trash in various forms. I started off with manipulating the trash can that one of the puppets was “holding,” then on to the giant ball of trash that another one was “holding” and then a trash can
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Monday, April 17th, we stayed with Tóti and his family. His wife, Hannahlið, made a fantastic vegetarian meal, which was a really pleasant surprise. After dinner, Rob and Tóti ran some errands and I stayed behind to teach Marsibel (their daughter) how to make a puppet. She’s been out of school with a cold and
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I’m building a rig to make trash rain at work. The director wasn’t happy with the way the trash falls, because it’s heavy. He thinks it falls too fast to look good or “real.” So he asked for options and along with the other things brought to the table, I mentioned a possible puppetry solution.