I installed the moving mouth mechanisms in two of the puppets today. The female version works great and can be operated with one finger inside the head, but the male one is going to wind up needing to be attached to his rod. There’s something not quite right about that sentence… Today’s comments included, “I’m […]
Seven years ago today, I went to see a movie by myself. At the end of the film, only one other person had stayed to watch the credits. This nice young man and I walked outside talking about film and theater. He got on his bike to ride away and I walked off to my
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So, after getting back from building monkeys, I had to go online to try to cancel an eFax service. It’s not that I didn’t like the service, but it certainly wasn’t the best online fax service in the world. Plus, I’d already completed the project that I had intially purchased the service for. Here is
It is late and I am tired. We had a good day, which included the lines, “Make sure you don’t come through the face,” and “This monkey is trying to kill me.” I’ll do details at some point when my brain is fully functional. Meanwhile, you may amuse yourselves by watching the cat with a
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I had an interesting experience today. We ran into a problem with the girl monkeys because their heads were cast of a significantly heavier material than the rehearsal puppets. The workshop design required them to be light. What to do. After ages of trying different things and getting frustrated and thinking that we would have
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If you’re interested in the design process, I’d suggest clicking over to Miss Emily DeCola’s website where you can see the design process for the monkeys we are building. It’s interesting stuff and the monkeys are so cute it’s painful. I mean look at their little haircuts! They come like that naturally. How can you
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For the workshop of Serendib, Emily made a series of prototype monkeys. This is the female model and is a beautifully simple design. The puppeteer slips her hand inside the torso of the monkey, and manipulates a small internal rod for the puppet. My job is to translate these structure prototypes into puppets that will
Today is Mom’s birthday and I wish I could be there with her.
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I will switch over to the pelvis until he gets back My second try at the crotch gave the bear the biggest package in the world. Let’s see if they have bigger balls. If we can’t find anything else, let’s get the Chinchilla chew toys for the monkey balls. Then you can put the kitty
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I made monkey handles today. These are hand-crafted out of maple to be ergonomically sound. The goal is to have the puppet rest in your hand, rather than having to grip the rod. I tend to use a sort of pistol grip, which I will upload pictures of later. There’s no internet in the Puppet
I went to see the apartment that Rob and I will be moving into and to meet the folks we’re doing the houseswap with. Both the family and the apartment were delightful. The kitchen is much bigger than it looked in the photos and it has an old double oven gas stove, which looks to
Today was great. I had birthday greetings all day long, from friends online, family calling and getting to hang out with people I adore. Emily and I spent the day making monkeys, which was so fun and so satisfying. You know how good it feels to do something that you’re good at, especially when it’s
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A friend of mine sent this to me and it made me chuckle.
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I’m 38 today. Yay! And on this day in 1587 Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded. Coincidence? I’m going to treat myself to massage and then go out for Chinese food with a bunch of friends.
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Emily gave me a shopping list this morning and sent me off into the world. The list is pretty straight forward, but I’m in NY were everything seems to be moving at a fast pace, but actually takes forever. I went to four different fabric stores to pick up silk for the monkeys’ skin. Most
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