Friday, October 16, 1998Day Eleven Today started at 6:30am. It’s our last day in Seattle so we had to pack our luggage into the van. Fortunately we both pack light. The show itself was in a small town outside of Seattle. We found it with no problems, but it was an old school so Joe […]
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Thursday, October 15, 1998Day Ten Today began at 7:00am for me. Joe got up at 6:30 to handle his e-mail. You will all be happy to know that we found both of our schools without incident. The first school had a really lovely loadin. Notice the covered area next to the door. Unfortunately the students
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I’m emptying my basement. I have loads of stuff that aren’t going with us to NYC. If you are in the Portland, OR area and are willing to come pick things up, you can score on foam, ribbons, fabric, glue and lumber. Email me and I’ll give you my contact info. I also have several
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Wednesday, October 14, 1998Day Nine Today we got to sleep in, til 7:30 am. Oooo. We’re staying with some friends of Joe’s (Shawna and Steven) that live in Seattle. In tour talk, this is a “home stay”. Tears of Joy gives us $40 in per diem for food and hotel, but we get to keep
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Monday, October 12, 1998Day Seven Today started at 6:00am. It was very hard to get up. And it’s raining, of course it’s Seattle so I shouldn’t be surprised. We had a very busy, full day as our first day of school shows. The first show was at 9:30 in, ironically, Marysville. Our second show was
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Sunday, October 11, 1998 Our day together started at 9:40am. Joe came to pick me up in the touring van and we drove to TOJ to do one last run-through of the “Brer Rabbit” part of the show. I was still shaky on some of the lines. Then it was off to Beaverton to set
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Thursday, October 8, 1998 We had planned on rehearsing yesterday, but spent the day doing errands or repairs instead. Today was much better. Joe and I both had meetings, but we were able to get some time in the evening to run the show all the way through. There are some rough spots, but most
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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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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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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 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.
Most of the time a set designer draws a pretty picture and then a TD (technical director) makes it a reality. I think I’ve been able to do that with one set. Most of the time, because of the limitations of puppets, I have to think about the mechanical as I’m designing. Also, because I’m