characters

Im gonna be forward and say im not quite sure if this is going to answer the question or not, but here we go anyways. My favorite characters from chapter four were the puppets that represented gods and demigods. i thought it was cool when the book mentioned a play where there were huge gods, twelve foot tall demigods, humans and small animal puppets all on the same stage. Pleanty of movies come to mind where we see towning god like beings, but i think that this would blow the socks off of any cg effect due to the fact that its real and you can almost feel the proportions rather than just go with it when its on the big screen.

3 examples

The first example that comes to mind would be Ralph Lee's influences on the New York Village Parade, which bares loads of similarities to dia de los muertos. In this festival families remember their lost loved ones by celebrating the dead with candied skulls, parades, floats music and puppets in the shape of skeletons and ghosts. The next would be the New years festival which featured many large puppets in the form of snakes, floating fish, long whisping flags and big humans. This has many tie ins with the chinese new years where large dragon, snake and other puppets are paraded through the street in celebration. The last would be the amount of puppiteers that have had their styles passed down to them from masters form all over the world including spain china and germany, and the many world festivals like the formentioned.

grrr blog errors

My blog is being quite stubborn and introverted, so it has decided to take me down with it. thus i will just post my response to thurdsays question here.

I think that it would be cool to do a piece where there are lots of raggity war torn puppets looming on the outside of a spotlight beaming down on a "lifeless" puppet. as the other puppets come into the light we see they have names like "protection" "equality" or different groups "muslims" "christians" ect, and they start to pick up the puppet and its strings in the middle. once the puppet is fully hoisted up by the others we see that it reads freedom across its chest, and shows how these groups have worked together to raise it

questions for class

so, sorry about the delay on getting this up.
" whats class got to do with it? what is the relationship between social class and puppetry?"


go for it