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

dont know if this will work, but here are some designs

about puppets

To me a puppet is much like Frankenstein’s monster and the puppeteer is like Dr. Frankenstein. A puppet is nothing but a lifeless corpse made of a Hodge podge wood, cloth or whatever else might be lying around at the time, but through the puppeteer it is given life. Much like the monster, once it is brought to life, characteristics that the maker may have not intended to create seep their way to the surface and give this once inanimate object its own personality.  The two cannot complete their individual stories without one another, and in many ways they come to rely upon each other. 

I think the allure of puppets is how one has the potential to take an obscure or potentially abstract idea and give it life. No one on earth is the pure manifestation of greed, or sadness or bliss but you can make a puppet that can not only portray those emotions, but that can also be a physical manifestation of them. These different emotions can be understood by almost any age, culture, or belief and can bypass these barriers with little to no effort.  Puppets are not merely children’s toys that bop one another over the head or teach us numbers, they are tools to allow us to visually display what we may not be able to show or say.

The amount of variety and creativity in the world of puppetry is simply astounding. I love the fact that literally anything can be made into a puppet and that even the simplest puppets can be just as good as expensive elaborate ones. They have become such a simple, yet powerful way of storytelling and I personally would hope that they never go away, however creepy some may be. Looking into some puppets id have to say I generally like the easy, creative ones over the complex ones. They seem to have more power or whatever it is I’m trying to grasp at behind them. When I see a complex puppet I think “ oh wow, that’s neat I wonder how it works” ,“ how on earth dose the puppet master know how to do all that” or simply “ who in the hell would waste that much money on something like that”, but when I look at the simpler ones, I become emerged in the story, I don’t think of them as a tool or an object. They come to life and have real emotions and tell real stories, it almost seems hard to believe that at the end of the day, the puppeteer packs them away in a musty old trunk and there they sit, unmoving until they are released once again.

Simply put, I love puppets and I can’t wait to make one of my own.

First time blogger seeking words to say

Howdy,

Welcome to my first blog, I hope that you enjoy your time here as I have spent all of ten minutes making it. Feel free to peer into my brain and projects for my puppetry class as I post them here. I guess adios till next time