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March 31, 2011 12:24 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fxxjovYKqCk/lifelike-horse-puppe.html
Lifelike horse-puppet -- really, really lifelike
This TEDTalk from the puppet troupe Handspring Puppet Company features a jaw-dropping horse puppet (around 9:16) that is so expertly made and controlled you have to keep reminding yourself that this isn't an animal: Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment: the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse, who trots (and gallops) convincingly onto the TED stage. Handspring Puppet Company: The genius puppetry behind War Horse (via JWZ) High cost of puppet-making revealed - Boing Boing Gilliam's steampunk puppet movie: 1884 - Boing Boing Toronto's improv singing puppet busker - Boing Boing HOWTO Make a Admiral Ackbar paper-bag puppet - Boing Boing Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: the Brazilian puppet-show edition ... Maker Jim Henson in 1969: HOWTO make a puppet - Boing Boing...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fxxjovYKqCk/lifelike-horse-puppe.html
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