Looking for a fun series that is two main puppets that take about anything? Check out Glove and Boots on YouTube. They’re also on Twitter and just did a Periscope too. See some of their puppetry gold. PSA on phone video etiquette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA Product Placement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWJ571hB19s Parodies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afUPJOg7uRk See the faces and hands beneath the puppets […]
When growing up I remember many shows on the TV that included puppetry, and one I remember watching frequently other than the standard Sesame Street is the New Zoo Review. This educational musical half hour show ran from 1972-1977 with 196 episodes. It featured the youthful free spirit Freddie the Frog, the by the book, know-it-all […]
This weekend I’m building my first human handed or live handed puppet. This is where the puppet has a hand for the mouth, and the puppeteers other hand fits inside of one of the puppets hands. I’ve making a similar pattern similar to the following, but I’m leaving out the foam body, and leaving it […]
If you haven’t seen it, you need to. “It’s Sesame Street meets The Wire” – Tagline from IMDB The Fuzz is a series combining puppets as puppets living in a real world with real people like the muppets. Its a cop show with puppets like Rodger Rabbit is a hard boiled detective story with animation. […]
Remember those Levi’s commercials with a car driving down the street with a yellow puppet rocking out to electronic music? That little guy was Flat Eric. “Flat Eric is a low-tech, yellow puppet character from Levi’s commercials for Sta-Prest One Crease Denim Clothing, built by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. His name comes from an idea for […]
Ever desired some puppet stuff to listen to? Try Getting Felt Up! Getting Felt Up! is a podcast run by Daniel Becker and Nate Begle. Two puppeteers that met and bonded on an ImaginOcean tour. Both are puppet builders and performers in the New York and Pennsylvania area that bring on their fellow puppeteers and their new friends in […]
As you may see I’m working on the original premise of the site. One of those things included news. Check out what you missed at the exciting panel for the Muppets as Comic Con Or want details from the Creature Shop panel where possible 2nd Season details and details on Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow see MuppetsHenson.com. But […]