My sister, her husband, and their three kids are down visiting from Canada for a couple of weeks- we’ve had a really great time so far, even though there’s a cold going around (which I refuse to contract until after I get back from San Francisco- refuse, I say) and Jen, Chris, Aunt Julie and [...]
Because I am constantly looking for any opportunity to merge my hobbies and my day job, I decided to put a few puppet projects on hold in order to start my little owl friend. He’s going to (possibly) be doing some videos for the freshman advising website. Plus, the burrowing owl is FAU’s mascot, so [...]
A fairly longtime goal of mine has been to be able to make a more professional puppeteering experience. Not necessarily so that I can be the next Jim Henson or anything, but just so that I can make some skits, perform some puppets, and have some fun. A few months ago I stumbled across a [...]
The following is a video of Freud that I made while trying to learn how to use a monitor… they’re tricky things, which is why Freud doesn’t seem so fluid – it’s not stage fright, it’s just the man downstairs trying to make sure Freud doesn’t veer off into the distance while going through the [...]
Here’s my latest; a little guy for the same top-secret project I’m building Freud for. I needed a break from the guy… he was getting me too nervous, so taking the weekend to build my little lab rat friend was a nice break, while still being productive. That being said, I think I’ve been stressing [...]
I am now putting the body of Freud together and will be spending the next two weeks making Freudian hands/arm rods and a nice Victorian era suit. I am a little nervous about the suit (I’m a puppet maker, not a tailor) but I am determined to succeed! Anyhow, here is the completed head of [...]
The Freud puppet is reaching new and exciting heights. I won’t post pictures until I’m a bit farther along, but I’m at the point where I can begin to practice my “Freud voice.” I found this youtube video of Freud giving a speech and to be honest, it wasn’t what I expected. Take a listen!
Earlier on in the semester I was approached by my old bosses in the student retention center to give a talk on puppets to our students in the living learning communities. The living learning communities are for freshmen exploring different interests at FAU, so you would have a science LLC, a nursing LLC, there’s a [...]
I was surfing the net, trying to find some revolutionary techniques or inspiration for how I can make my puppets better, when I stumbled across an old puppet forum I’d joined back in 2006 when I started making puppets. To my surprise, there were some old photos I had posted up of my first puppets! [...]
The Freud build has been going so well lately, I began to wonder what would go wrong and when. Normally I have some frustrating problems and Freud was just falling together so nicely – could it be I’d crossed into a new level of puppet building competency? Nope. I figured the other shoe would drop [...]
