Project Puppet has just released an amazing leg and foot pattern to their Simple Series. The pattern can be downloaded immediately once purchased, and can be adapted to fit your puppets character. Check it out today!

Norman Schneider at Figurenschneider has unveiled another amazing puppet. “Pigdog”  was built for ventriloquist Andreas Roemer.  

Pigdog is made from fleece and foam, includes a blinking eye mech and a unique bigger belly “add on” to increase his six-pack abs. To see more of Norman’s newest puppets visit his website!

Just a quick little post.

Here is an article on digital puppetry I stubbled upon at C21Media. Enjoy!

http://www.c21media.net/resources/detail.asp?area=108&article=50154
 

Project Puppet has recently posted a coming soon banner for their next puppet building contest…with this background, one could only imagine what this years “theme” may be.

FOOD PARTY, a fantastical, food-centric series created and hosted by Brooklyn fringe artist, Thu Tran, and a motley mix of unruly puppets who serve as her culinary crew, is coming to IFC June 9 at 11:15 p.m. ET/PT.  This six-part IFC Original Comedy’s hallucinatory hijinks will be served in 10-minute episodes (or bites, if you will) during IFC’s Tuesday night AUTOMAT programming block.

In their surreal live-action cartoon-like universe, Thu and friends create out-of-this-world delicacies with ingredients commonly found in the average kitchen, like pretzel rods, Ostrich eggs, chicken wings, caramel, pork chops, nuts, bizarre plot twists, MSG, pizza, and love. 

FOOD PARTY’s humble origins began in Cleveland, where Thu and a group of fellow grads from the Cleveland Institute of Art rented a cheap studio and began working on a public-access-inspired cooking puppet show.  After posting two episodes online, Thu relocated to Brooklyn in hopes of expanding her artistic vision for the show.  Thu and her crew of friends built another set inside their apartment and created more online episodes.  A cult web audience quickly caught on to the webseries.  Features in New York Magazine’s Grub Street section, and the popular blog Gothamist led to more wide-spread attention.  The webseries won the ‘Outside of the Box” prize at the 2008 NY Television Festival, a new award given to the most innovative and genre-expanding pilot in competition. 

FOOD PARTY will be served in the IFC AUTOMAT, a Tuesday night programming destination designed to appeal to a younger male audience, packed with uncut, uncensored programming including network premieres, originals, shorts, web shows, anime and more. Check it out TONIGHT!

CLICK HERE FOR A SNEAK PEEK!

Here are some outtakes from Treehouse Studios season one. Hilarious stuff!

     The Orson Welles Show was an unsold television talk show pilot. It has never been broadcast or released. Filming began in September 1978 and the project was completed around February 1979. It ran 74 minutes and was intended for a 90 minute commercial time slot.

     Shot partly before a live audience, Welles interviewed Burt Reynolds (taking several questions from the audience,) Jim Henson and Frank Oz performed Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear. Other taped skits included Gonzo the Great, Sam and Animal. Unfortunately the show was never released to the public and only now have some of those segments begun to surface. Here is a clip that was released on Orson Welles’s movie “F for Fake”.
This clip was on the special features disk.

Transylvania TV is running an amazing contest! Please watch the video below for more details

For more information concerning the contest:

http://www.transylvania-tv.com/media/lyip_rules2009.pdf

I received this email and thought I’d post it immediately:

Hey Puppet Friends!
Francis Opiyo is a Kenyan Puppeteer who is planning to come to the O’Neill
Puppetry Conference. He tours shows through out Southern Africa on HIV/AIDS
Advocacy as well as teaches at the High School and college levels. He supports
his wife and children on about $1150 year.
We have given him a scholarship for all conference and housing costs, but his
funding fell through for his travel. Our usual deep pockets are dry, and he
needs about $1500 for the plane fare.
If we can each give $5 or $10, I am sure we could raise the monies. I would
never ask if I did not feel this is a wonderful cause. I know he will impact
many lives in Africa.
The urgency is because the conference is in two weeks and we need to have his
visas in place to come ASAP. I would love to have this done by Monday June 1, if
possible. Any excess of funds will go into scholarships for future participants
and the O’Neill Theater Center.
Give if you can. I so appreciate you reading this.

Thank you,
Pam Arciero