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Here's the details: Professional puppeteers with experience in both big mouth and rod puppets are needed for a new children's show slated to open this spring. Please bring your own puppet and a prepared one minute routine and be prepared to improvise. Part time and full time positions available...

The results of Channel 102's March screening is in (it was last night in NYC) and Cakey! and Puppet Rapist were the top two shows. The new episodes of both are available online: Puppet Rapist - http://www.channel102.net/show.php?show=54 Cakey! - http://www.channel102.net/show.php?show=60

I know bluescreen/greenscreen questions often pop up and while I was putting together some film/video production resource pages I came across this great guide to making your own blue/green screen for cheap...

Hi all, Sesame Workshop is doing a special workshop (for kids) at the Garden State Film Festival next weekend. From the festival web site: How To Get To Sesame Street !!! Saturday April 1st 2:15-4:00pm Join Sesame Street Associate Producer Benjamin Lehmann and Puppeteer Ryan Dillon as they take...

I just saw this on MAKE and thought people here might find it interesting, it's a tutorial on how to make a hot wire foam cutter. Just remember that you have to be careful and take the proper safety precautions; foam gives off toxic fumes when it burns or melts...

Puppetry/video game mash-ups seem to be getting popular and I just posted about a couple Pac Man-related ones in my blog at http://puppetvision.blogspot.com/2006/03/video-game-theatre.html The latest is a cool pilot for a show called Videogame Theater that uses puppetry. The lead puppeteer...

Stop whatever you're doing right now and check this out - it's an insanely cool video for a cover of Nelly's "It's (Getting) Hot In Here" http://www.lordofthemarionette.com/videos/HOTINHERRE.mov Also very cool, but not nearly as flashy is the new video for Beth Orton's single "Conceived" which...

Hi all, I know the idea of collaborative videos and films - like the cool new "10 Second Club" people have started up - have been kicking around for quite awhile and I've been dying to put together a relatively ambitious "Open Puppet Movie Project". The idea behind an open movie is that the...

What are everyone's thoughts on the importance of story in their puppetry? What do people think about it? Do people think about it? I guess what I mean is that most of the discussion here centers on technical things like how to build a puppet, how to puppeteer, lip sync, etc. and all of those...

Someone was asking ages ago about the company who built puppets for It's A Big, Big World. I finally found the correct (French) spelling of their name and contact info and wanted to share - the company is L’Atelier des Griffons and their web site is http://www.atelierdesgriffons.com Check out...

Out of curiosity, how many puppeteers do we have here from Texas and from what cities?

Not sure if everyone here has seen Whackjack or not, but it's another relatively new puppet web series. New episodes are only posted every few months, but they're really complicated. I've posted a bunch of related links in my blog at http://puppetvision.blogspot.com/2006/02/more-whackjack.html...

My Guide to Puppet Building Resources which got taken offline last year when I began slowly (very slowly) reworking my Bear Town site is back online and has been updated. It's by no means comprehensive, but for any of the newer users to the site who want a general guide to information on the...

Thought this might be of interest to anyone in or around Orlando: Wanted: Puppeteer/Puppet Instructor for the City of Orlando Puppetroupe, operated through the City of Orlando Recreation Division. Duties would include, but not exclusive to: teaching puppetry and puppet-making to children ages...

Four different puppet web series/podcasts have posted new episodes in the past few days...I've posted a round-up of all the new episodes here.

Hey all, So there is a special event at the upcoming U.S. Comedy Festival called "Jim Henson's Puppet Improv" in Aspen. It's an adult only live performance and features some of the best Muppet performers. Presumably no Muppets though, since it's a Henson Co. event and Disney doesn't appear to...

OK, so I didn't visit the actual set of Mexico's version of Sesame Street, Plaza Sesamo (although I'm trying to work on that!) but I did check out the Parque Plaza Sesamo theme park in Monterrey over the weekend. I took lots of pics and posted my favourites on Flickr -...

Questions about podcasting came up in the Alien Alerts thread so I decided to do a few short pieces about podcasting and how it works in my blog this week. I've posted the first of these here so if you're interested in getting in to doing puppetry and podcasting feel free to check it out...

Hey everybody, I am lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit Parque Plaza Sesamo (the Mexican version of the Sesame Place Theme park) over the weekend here in Mexico and I was wondering if anyone has ever been. Any thoughts? Suggestions? I'm planning to grab lots and lots of pics and...

I know this comes up a lot here, especially with newer members so I thought I would share some nice drawing for eye mechs (for anyone new "mech" = mechanical puppet control for eyes or whatever). These are by Shawn Sorrell who runs Puppetsandstuff.com...