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Graveyard Shift

It really is hard to find good help: The latest Death By Puppets video went live last week and I forgot to post it as usual. This is some of my favorite stuff we’ve done. When we filmed it I had real lines to do as the zombie with the intention of dubbing in the zombie sounds. Eventually there may be a foreign language subtitle track so you can find out what Mr. Zombie is really saying here. »

Cooking with Puppets

Cooking with Puppets

If you wish to create an apple pie from scratch. First you must watch this cooking show. There are more than a couple names you might recognize in those credits. And now for something completely related: MAL Exclusive bonus footage! It’s a little known fact that Bigfoot is so hard to track down because she’s always making art. The sort-of-long and not-all-that-sordid tale of “Coo... »

The Biological Plausibility of (Puppet) Dragons

The Biological Plausibility of (Puppet) Dragons

  My fellow labbers would have you believe that Dragons are biologically implausible, but I’m here to say that (Puppet) Dragons are not only plausible, they’re real. »

Happy Birthday Carl

Happy Birthday Carl

Today, November 9th, would have been Carl Sagan’s 78th birthday.  This year Carl Sagan Day will be celebrated on Saturday (11/10). We like Carl around the lab.  So, of course we’ve celebrated Carl Sagan day before. We’ve also turned him into a time lord, made an approximation of apple pie from scratch, undressed him on paper for you, and even made him part of this complete breakf... »

oh THAT guy

A Mad Puppeteer introduction

As this is my first post here I guess a brief introduction is in order. I always describe my day job as “Standard Nerd”, but then again that’s not what I’m here for. Over the last twenty/thirty years or so I’ve made a number of forays into “the arts” from painting to music, to photography, to theatre, to writing (so much writing), and in the last few years: Puppetry. »