Project Puppet has developed a alternative body pattern to the Simple Series puppet pattern! It’s a great shape, and even fits Build-A-Bear Workshop clothes! Get your today!

Some say that imitation is best form of flattery- I love both these skits!

Try playing both at the same time- see if they sync up LOL

Christopher Williams presents Virgo Genitrix- This preformance includes nine dancers: three women and six small, highly articulated Bunraku-style puppets. It is set to 14th century music and investigates the medieval Christian phenomena of desert asceticism, mortification of the flesh, holy fasting, sexual abstinence, virginity, and daemonlogy from a feminine perspective.

The great thing about Halloween is all the awesome puppet fabric, wigs, lashes, and accessories available to puppet builders. Here in Canada, a store called Value Village already has aisle after aisle of halloween fun on display and grocery stores are starting to sell huge bags of candy for local residence to hand out to trick-or-treaters… it isn’t even September yet!

In keeping with the spirit of these local establishments- I thought I would celebrate Halloween 2 months early as well, and started searching the web for Halloween/Puppet related stuff. That’s when I found the site My Lil’ Zombie.

My Lil’ Zombie sells handmade zombie themed plush toys and puppets. Their new website is actually under construction, but they should be back before Halloween. I did though, manage to find their old website under a different address. You can also CLICK HERE to see all the work that goes into building these one of a kind puppets!

Puppets feed is back and looks more streamlined. Check it out at Puppetsfeed.com

I noticed last night that some of my links in my directory have either changed, or are now none existent. This week I’m going to try to do some fall cleaning and fix everything. Please inform me of any changes to your site if your link is listed; or by next week your site might be erased. Thanks 

I completed my last day camp for the summer season and am enjoying a little bit of R & R. This summer I visited the Almonte Puppets Up Festival and will write more about my experiences later this month. I also had Applefun Puppetry, Paddling Puppeteers and Purple Dragon Puppet Troupe perform for the campers…and last week I checked out Avenue Q in Toronto. Whew!

Now that I’m back I started my usual web surfing, I have noticed that there has been a resurgence of people interested in a 80’s cult classic called The Gremlins. On Youtube a huge fan named Sacha Feiner made an alternate fan sequence from the DVD version of the Gremlins 2 “film break” scene. He made it alone, in a two months period, with (computer-enhanced) puppets he re-created for this project. Amazing work!
 

The Puppet Folk Revival has gone and made a tv show in the holy land.
It’s called RedBand! The production value looks great and the previews hillarious! Please be aware that some of the content contains foul language. Enjoy!

Karen Prell was at Comic Con this week, bringing along Red Fraggle to promote the up and coming Fraggle Rock Movie.

Rove Live is an Australian late night show hosted by Rove McManus. Elmo seems more racey in Aussie country than in North America as he talks about gas prices, football (soccer), David Beckham, Sydney Harbour bridge climb, Elmo is going to sue and Cookie monster eating sometimes food. Following Elmo is an interview with Kevin Clash. ENJOY!