A Puppet A Day
Meet the Kazoos ,
Ministry of puppets is a fun Uk site, who makes puppet videos, ALex bought a couple of my First “A puppet a day puppets on Etsy, and he just made a new video,
These puppets were based on the “BLACK BEARDED PURPLE BLATCH” pattern created by the Jim Henson company back in the sixties for a magazine article, glad to see he is having fun with them while he waits for the other two he purchased (we have had a shipping snafu )
check out his work at
http://www.ministryofpuppets.com/index.htm
first of all Tumblr, you deleted my description to this post forcing me to re type my rambling nonsense.
secondly ,you all should give this guy some love!,
Charles got the idea to do “a puppet a week” well befoe i even thought about
”a puppet a day” , (honestly i was going to do one a week, Curse you Charles!!)
in his last post he commented that he wish he could be more like me, and while flattering, i think he should be more like him, be the best him he can be!!
we come from two different worlds, and this should be a fun project, hobby, and learning experience for him! he has a “REAL JOB” a family, and several great creative outlets, and no matter how he may stumble on the way to his goal, he shouldn’t get down about it, i have wasted more time than i care to think about comparing my self to my more illustrious colleagues, and its pointless
i started my challenge out of boredom, lack of work,and projects with two much material and way to much free time, i have been having fun with it, but on more than a few occasions, the “REAL WORLD” has intruded, interrupting my work flow, and output, I’ve missed more than a few days , but i think my goal was a bit over reaching anyway, but ill still do as many puppets as i can regardless,
So Charles, don’t let the real life stumbling blocks get you down, do your work,do the best work you can, than do better, I’ve seen you evolving as you go, keep on doing it. and have fun, in the end that’s all that matters any way.
From Start to Finish, this is the making of the puppets For College humor, Keep in mind, this was pretty much done in about 18 hours from start to finish, i started with the stop motion animation models, then did a quick, sketch for approval, then jumped in to the foam work, covered the foam bodies with spray glue and cheese cloth, then added the paint and latex mix, finaly eyes and costumes.
the boys at college humor, and thier puppet alter egos
College humor live ! Dinosaurs
College Humor , Dinosaur Office Live!
Dinosaur Puppets for college humor …
Dinosaurs!!!! Today’s project is a tight deadline cliff hanger , three dinosaur puppets for college humors “up all nighter” these guys are based on the stop motion animated shorts they do called “dinosaur office “. The up all nighter sketches are performed live , so they called me to build the puppets ..
So , as you all know I do my work in a dark dingy basement , alone for the most part, to keep what little sanity I have I listen to many, many podcasts .. One of my daily shows is called “the Morning Stream” On today’s show one of the regular contributors did a spoof of “the rainbow connection”. I decide to shoot a little vid of it.. Enjoy , and Be sure to check out the shows done by Scott johnson and his gang at Frogpants.com
i did a little interview in the local paper this week, nothing ground breaking, (we puppet people tend land in the realm of Human Interest stories) shame i dont have any major projects to promote , still a nice well written piece,
