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This Korean report follows a hand that has all the moves. I don’t understand Korean, but the comments at YouTube indicate the puppeteer is a high school girl. Watch this little fighter try to split a board! -via Buzzfeed
Our
pal Juergen of Random Good
Stuff and For 91 Days is in Palermo,
Italy when he visited a fantastic little museum of puppets called the
Museo delle Marionette.
He wrote:
The glory days of puppet theater are long since gone, obsoleted by more modern entertainment options like TV and movies. But Palermo is one of the few places that you can still catch a show, with a few family-run theaters continuing the tradition. We’re definitely going to at least one. But first, in order to learn a bit more about the art form, we visited the Museo delle Marionette.
In 2001, UNESCO added Sicilian Puppet Theater to its list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Sicilian performances are usually centered around knights and princesses, dragons and Christianity. Epic Norman ballads like The Song of Roland provide much of the material for the island’s puppeteers, who inject a fair amount of humor in their performances and also invent dialogue on the fly.
... but all I kept on thinking was: What's up with the puppet with the belly face?
Link - Thanks Juergen!
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If you didn’t see the strings, you’d just think this was a skinny dog. This talented puppeteer was spotted on the streets of Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bonus: “Stormy Weather.” -via Arbroath
Pickle Finger – $0.95
Are you on the lookout for a new Finger Puppet to taunt hungry coworkers with? You need the deliciously strange Pickle Finger from the NeatoShop. This great rubber finger puppet is shaped like a pickle.
Pickle Fingers are sold per piece. Be sure to buy 5 to get a complete hand’s worth.
Don’t forget to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Gag Gifts & Pranks!
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Narwhal Finger Puppet – $0.95
Was your favorite childhood pastime pretending to be a Narwhal? Now you can relive your youth with the fabulous Narwhal Finger Puppet from the NeatoShop. Pop a couple onto your hand and let these magical unicorns of the sea transport you to simpler times.
Narwhal Finger Puppets are sold per piece. Be sure to buy 5 to get a complete hand’s worth.
Make sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Gag Gifts & Pranks.
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Mega Mouth Hand Puppet - $9.95
Do you have trouble expressing yourself to friends, coworkers, or even strangers? You need the Mega Mouth Hand Puppet from the NeatoShop. Don’t keep things bottled up inside. Slip this big mouthed puppet on your hand and let Mega Mouth do the talking for you.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fabulous Toys & Games.
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FAO Schwarz has a Muppet Workshop, where you can have your own “Muppet Whatnot” created just for you. You can design yours online with this generator. I made this one; others have designed Whatnots that look like Charlie Sheen, Bill Clinton, and others. Having it actually made into a Muppet will cost you $129.99. Link -via reddit
One cold rainy day, Dan and Will decided to cheer people up with nothing but old socks and their cunning use of theater.
Behold, the Flash Theater and its clever use of moar puppets.
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Supercloggers during rush hour on the US 210 Freeway in Pasadena, California
(Photo: Anthony Lepore)
Rush hour is no fun, except if you happen to be right behind the mobile puppet theater of Los Angeles artists Joel Kyack and Michael Hayden:
Starting roughly at 5 p.m. on designated days, lucky commuters will see the back of the pickup’s shell top swing open to reveal an energetic hand puppet dressed like a heavy metal musician. If they tune their radios to the frequency written on a cardboard sign on the tailgate, they’ll hear crashing guitar chords and a gravelly announcer’s voice say, "Welcome to ‘Superclogger’!"
What follows are four vignettes, each between 4 and 7 minutes long, in which characters discuss the vicissitudes of fame, friendship, snobbery, artistic integrity and love. An aging country singer laments the price of success; a naive young boy confronts upper class pretensions in a surreal conversation with a talking shrub; two construction workers shed their tough guy image with a karaoke version of Joni Mitchell’s "Both Sides Now"; and an isolated writer sets aside his novel for a lucrative screenplay and love.
Link: Story at LA Times | Official Superclogger website at LAX ART
Puppet Rodeo is a silly new short film by Kevin Maher about puppets riding dogs in a rodeo.
Via Urlesque
Most kids will find puppets funny, but not this kid. He’s got a severe form of pupaphobia (the irrational fear of puppets). I don’t think he’s making this up, and I sure hope that he outgrows it.
I know people who have misophobia (irrational fear of dirt and germs), chemophobia (chemicals), and flutter-phobia, so I don’t find the kid’s reaction as funny though I’m sure many people would. But it sure is interesting: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Juergen!
Do you have an irrational fear of something? What is it?
Previously on Neatorama: Coulrophobia: Fear of Clown (not a good link for you if you’re afraid of clowns)
