Tuesday, October 6, 1998 We’ve now had day two of rehearsal. I say rehearsal loosely, because most of it was spent repairing puppets. In addition to Sungura’s ears, the other challenge we faced today was admitting that one of the puppets is missing. We’d hoped yesterday that it would show up, but no- the small […]
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This man makes armor for cats & mice. I wonder if Mr. De Boer has ever managed to actually get a cat to put one on. Marlowe would love it. Edited to add: I found this in Mr. De Boer’s FAQ. Q. Have you ever put a mouse into a suit of armour? A. If
Our house is noticeably warmer. Amazing. For the first time in years, I slept without a space heater in our bedroom. I think the house is quieter too, but that’s harder to tell.
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With the move and everything, I’m feeling a wee bit overwhelmed so I’m going to use the wayback machine to post my online journal from a tour in 1998. At the time, I was touring with Tears of Joy, the second largest puppet theater in the US. The tour was a short one, only two
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My company owns a set of Little Shop of Horrors puppets which we rent out to different venues. I just called my storage facility to arrange a visit to the plants so I could check for damage before sending them out on the next rental. They aren’t there. They were never returned. I’m trying to
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I enjoy reading PuppetVision Blog and there’s this post today which makes me think about the commonalities between design and fiction. I want to scream at my monitor every time I read about someone wanting to do their own take on Sesame Street or The Muppet Show. While imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,
Modern Mechanix has posted a fascinating photo from 1934 of miniature skeletons, which are strung like marionettes, and can be posed for artists. How odd.
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Our house was built in 1907, so for it’s 100th birthday we are giving it new windows. They just arrived today and the workmen are installing as I type. Yay!
For a while now, our status has been somewhat up in the air. Were we going back to Iceland or staying in the US? If the US, where? We know the answer now. We are moving to New York. Manhattan, in fact. This is a move that Rob and I have been talking about for
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Thanks to -e- for sending me this link. This is freaky, amazing and wonderful, all at the same time. The BBC news reports on an experiment at growing bone in the lab, which then spins out of the laboratory and into the hands of artists. Couples are being given the opportunity to exchange jewellery made
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Talebones just announced the table of contents of #35. The cover artist will be Richard Pellegrino who is doing the fantastically cool “Painting a day” blog. “Landing Day” by Michael Canfield “Two” by Jack Skillingstead “Mildred’s Garden” by James C. Glass “Death Comes but Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal “Sweep Me to My Revenge!” by
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Well, gentle readers. I’m cleaning house and have a whole passel of puppetry t-shirts ranging from new to very used, and they all have very cool illustrations. Rather than taking them to Goodwill, I thought I would see if any of my puppetry readers wanted them. I’d like to see them go to a good
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I’d seen this floating around, but it hadn’t tempted me because Ken Scholes had already given my super-hero name in his story “Action Team-Ups Number Thirty Seven.” (Which you can listen to here.) But then a friend sent this quiz to me, and what’s a girl to do? I’m just hoping it’s not truly some
I just uploaded some photos of the set hardware on my touring set. Here they are, for you nutty types who are into such things. Set hardware The schematics are here but you have to look through the other drawings to get to them.
When we got back from Iceland my desktop computer wouldn’t boot. Uh-oh. We took it into a repair shop and learned that the hard disk was frozen. For a mere $1000 they could ship it off to California where the data could be retrieved. Was there anything on it that I needed that badly? Our
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