2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
Crunchy numbers
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 4 times
In 2010, there were 37 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 217 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 245mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was September 27th with 107 views. The most popular post that day was 3.thePUPPEThomePROJECT .
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were archone.tamu.edu, wordpress.com, petertlang.net, sarahdavispuppetproject.blogspot.com, and en.search.wordpress.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for el lissitzky, el lissistsky, the puppet home project, framkie volpicella, and naum gabo.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
3.thePUPPEThomePROJECT September 2010
1.theMe September 2010
0.NUTSHELL August 2010
2. TheWCab September 2010
5. LOSTinTIMEtheSHOW November 2010
Lost in Time Video Production
Our final production of Lost in Time can be seen by watching it on the link below.
e-magazine
Lost In Time Production: Photos
Storyboards
Puppet Practice Video 3
A Work In Progress
Puppet Practice Video 2
Puppet Practice Video 1
Puppet Show Rehearsal
official poster for the big puppet show
the process of creating a puppet show
Houston Museum of Natural Science
The Rose Center
David Bomba- art director/production designer
The Three Marionette: Vancouver Museum Poster
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Aweppets- Jerrod Yarbrough, Teil Massie, Kemble Smith
Stage Design Project
This exercise is about designing a stage for your chosen puppet where it can perform a range of activities. Your designed puppets are not isolated art-objects that are acting against a curtain wall or imprisoned within a framed booth, but must be considered within a surrounding space that is as important as your puppets. You will design the space in which your puppets breathe into and also inhale the qualities of the space. Therefore, after considering certain activities and movements for your puppets such as dancing, walking, flying, climbing, sitting, etc., you are supposed to design their place. Besides correlating the stage setting and your puppet, you should consider the audience as well as the puppeteers with the aim of merging them within a common space design. Your design should finally reflect a new spatial relationship between puppets, your viewers and the puppeteers.
In order to achieve a fresh perspective on the stage design, we will go through the following exercises:
1. Overlapping Surfaces
You will start with re-thinking about the wall or the stage backdrop in terms of planes and surfaces as the organizers of the space. Situating your puppet away from its traditional close relation to the homogenous background, you will experience a variety of other spatial possibilities through working with continuous overlapping surfaces and their reciprocal concealment. The overlapping surfaces with different colors and materials will merge the foreground, middle ground, and background, therefore, integrating the space of the viewer, the puppets and the puppeteers. This exercise begins with abstract drawings following spatial concepts of design that needs to be actualized in stage models with 1″=1′ scale.
2. Porosity
Framing booths and openings are part of puppet shows through which the puppets interact with the viewer and other puppets. The second exercise aims at the porous surfaces and their adjacent voids in-between surfaces that also need to be thought and designed. The process of seeing and being seen takes place within the region of porous screens that renders immateriality and continuity of the space. This exercise also initiates with abstract drawings embodying spatial concepts which are then transformed in to stage models in 1″=1′ scale.
Heath Bottoms puppet blog
Kemble’s Blog
Kathleen’s blog
Nate’s Blog
claire’s blog
Travis Blue’s puppet blog
Jerrod’s Blog Space
Sarah’s Puppet Project
Victoria Adams’s Blog
Frankie’sPuppetHomeProject
Teil’s puppet blog
Amanda Surman’s Puppet Blog
my puppet blog
theMeproject backstage
thePUPPEThomePROJECT
All of you are familiar with Frank Braun’s Wizard of Oz, the famous American tale of a little girl named Dorothy who is swept away from her home in Kansas to the Land of Oz, and must find the ruler to get back home. Like so many childhood stories, from Collodi’s Pinocchio to Spielberg’s AI, role’s like Gepetto’s, the puppet master, are pivotal metaphors for sovereign rule and human freedom. But puppets, whether string or hand held are also creative anthropometric extensions of you. They can assume many personalities, or act as your personal handmade avatars.
