Posts Tagged ‘puppets’
On October 18, 1979, Kenny Rogers, who died on Friday, performed "The Gambler" on The Muppet Show. See the human hands on those muppets? This was one of the rare instances in which "the puppeteer lends his/her body parts," according to the Muppet Wiki.
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Jim Henson's "The Coffee Break Machine" (1967), a skit in an IBM training film, was the first appearance of a proto-Cookie Monster, then green, who evolved from a puppet named the Wheel-Stealer. (A slightly different version of the clip appeared on the Ed Sullivan show that same year.) From the Muppet Wiki:
A proto-Cookie Monster ...
Legendary puppeteer Carroll Spinney, who brought Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life on Sesame Street, died today. He was 85. Here's the New York Times obituary. And from the Sesame Workshop:
Caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define Sesame Street from its ...
Children of the 80's will remember the disturbing puppets from satirical puppet show Spitting Image and the video for Genesis' Land of Confusion. Co-creator Roger Law has confirmed that a pilot has been filmed, with hopes of a new series focusing on major celebrities like Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg.
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ETH Zurich engineers demonstrated a system enabling a robot to control a marionette. Although a robotic puppeteer is pretty **** cool, that's not the point of the research.
"Our long term goal is to enable robots to manipulate various types of complex physical systems – clothing, soft parcels in warehouses or stores, flexible sheets and cables ...
It's been 50 years of sunny days sweeping the clouds away. The beloved children's show Sesame Street has been on air for half a century.
To celebrate this major milestone, a New York City street is permanently becoming Sesame Street and you'll ... ...
In Bermuda, the enchanting Crystal Caves attract tourists with their huge stalactites and stalagmites above the clear water pools. As a child, Michael K. Frith frequently visited the caves and never forgot their weird, otherworldly beauty. Those caves would eventually inspire Frith, working with puppeteer Jim Henson, to co-create Fraggle Rock, a beloved muppet TV ...
Having practical effects, such as animatronics, as often as possible was one of the main techniques that director J.A. Bayona used to get genuine reactions out of the actors in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. We talked to one of the puppeteers who op... ...
Bert and Ernie made headlines today after Mark Saltzman, who wrote for the show for 14 years starting in 1984, said in Queerty interview: "I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they were [***]." (more…) ...
Nicki Minaj's latest video is the last place we thought we'd find a whole bunch of puppets, but here we are.
The rapper's new Hype Williams-directed video clip for "Barbie Dreams" from her recently released album, Queen, features an exorbitant am... ...