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Is anyone else going to go to "Trilogy Tuesday" - the screening of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy - in their town this Tuesday?

Saw this over at Tough Pigs ~ http://www.hottopic.com/store/product.asp?LS=0&M=1086213690&ITEM=218796 To paraphrase Danny Horn "what the ****?" :confused:

I think this is a great idea in theory, the only problem is money. It would probably cost $20 million or so to buy the building and set up a museum. I'm sure then Henson family and company is more attached to the building than any of the fans, but the fact is the company is based on the West...

I agree, but we have to remember that we supported Hussein for a long time prior to the Gulf War. The man was on the CIA's payroll and the people of Iraq suffered in large part because the US and it's Western Allies supported Sadam in his war with Iran in the 80s. We also sat by and watched...

Someone is looking for a puppet builder for a film, but they want non-Muppet style puppets (Vent figures or marionettes). Here's the skinny: I am currently in need of a puppet maker and/ or puppeteer for an upcoming short film to shoot in May 2004. I am more specifically interested in...

Not sure where the heck the 407 area code is (and I'm too lazy to look it up) but here's info on some auditions happening thereabouts: MicheLee Puppets, Inc., a children's touring theatre company, is holding auditions Dec. 22, 2003, 7pm to 9pm, for a new show for high school students...

I had a really cool tutorial about this online - unfortunately my site went down last month because of a billing screw-up and I've been sick and too busy/tired to get it back up the past few weeks. The good news is it ~should~ be (finally) back online Tuesday or Wednesday. Check out this link...

I started building puppets in my teens for high school video projects - my first puppet was a cockroach I made on my bed in an hour one morning and spent the next several years doing the usual trial-and-error thing. I worked for a professional company that did puppetry for a number of years in...

George Latshaw's book is pretty good, if a little dated. I recently finally found a copy of it at a NYC bookshop.

There is a company in the U.S. - for the life of me I can't recall the name - that sells plastic spheres in a wide variety of sizes. These are great to cut and use and eyelids and eyes. Again, I can't recall the name but I know a lot of professional builders buy from them. Maybe Toastcrumbs...

That's generally accepted, that Jim was the first to combine hand puppets and rod puppets. Not sure about "live hands". It's very possible that some other lesser-known puppeteer was doing it before Jim. Many of the "firsts" attributed to Jim's early work in puppetry were actually done years...

Welcome to the forum! FYI, to locating puppeteers, puppet builders and puppet building supplies in your country you should contact UNIMA Australia. They could probably help you a lot!

An alternative to Sculpt-or-Coat is to use latex. I generally use Moldcraft, because that is what is sold locally here, but it is available in almost any art supply store. It adds a little more weight to the foam it's applied to than Sculpt-or-Coat but it's easier to find.

I've found - aside from warm-ups and stretching - the best way to get in shape for a very physical puppet part is to rehearse, rehearse, rehearse! Say, where/when is your production of "Little Shop"? What is the company that is doing it?

I tend to work mostly with hand/rod puppetry, but I love bunraku-style puppetry and Czech-style black light puppetry - the real full-size stage black light puppetry, not just "Muppetry" puppets made from black light material that a lot of Christian groups seem to use.

Probably the definative "puppet book" is the Art of the Puppet by Bill Baird. It has been out of print for many years, but most libraries in North America carry at least one or two copies. It traces the history of puppetry from (almost) the beginning of civilization to the mid/late 1970s.

Wacky Stacks were a stacking toy made in the late 60s/early 70s that the Muppet Workshop would use to make eyes. When the company went out of business, Jim Henson bought out the remaining supply and they are still in use today at the workshop. To answer the inevitable question, no they can't...

Ah...there's nothing better than a nice, new, sharp razor blade... :o uh...that came out much more disturbingly than I had intended... :o

You should attach them to the mouthplate. That is what usually holds the upper and lower jaws together.

Scarry Larry is back! Yea! :excited: How the heck are `ya?