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Harry Murphy Inner circle Maryland 5444 Posts |
LOL!!! David!! That gave me a chuckle! I have an old dragon marionette in a box somewhere. It is a great puppet with folding and unfolding wings that can flap when open. It can breath smoke (if I wanted to smoke a cigarette while working the thing (how about that for risking your life for art!. I think that I may just dig it out and paint it purple! LOL!!!
The artist formally known as Mumblepeas!
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mota Inner circle 1658 Posts |
Doug is working on something interesting along these lines...check it out.
http://grindshow.com/GrindShow/Higley_Marionettes.html |
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
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On 2005-12-03 11:24, mandrake01 wrote: Ah, but if you use your own unique dance moves for the puppet, (Not copying his, of course)and your own unique music choice, and then it would become your act. A lot of folks use similar puppets, but it's what you personaly make the puppet say and do that separates your act from the other guy's.
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2005-12-03 12:06, Harry Murphy wrote: That's a good point. I just remember the guy who did the "Timmy the Toilet Paper" presenting it at a magic meeting and having everyone come up and go; "OOh, that was neat! I can't wait to put that in my act!" Yes, if you can take the basic premise and make it your own by going in a different direction, go with it!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
That's the only ethical way to go about it.
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Too bad too many magicians think "ethics" is a word in the dictionary!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Lots of 'things' afoot. Harry, you might be interested in MarionetteShow.com
I'll be putting up the latest ideas there and most interesting (to me anyway) will be the Street Theater setup I came up with. I designed it to have a VERY small 'footprint' and be a single haul (one trip!) from the vehicle to the location and still be self contained for a full days/nights performances with multiple Marionettes. A buddy of mine who is a pro cabinet maker is building the prototype of cardboard...(I'll have photos) and then we'll adjust the measurements etc. and build the real deal. It will be very simple to build and (I HOPE!) easy to work and give a nice professional touch to a street corner act. I'll share the plans once I know it works as I envision it. I'm building my own marionettes these days but I did notice that eBay is flooded with Pelhams. Cheap too. Not wanting to correct Harry but the record...but I used the Skeleton dancer in the 60's...if I had originally said 70's it was a mistake....I was doing GrindShow stuff in the 70's. AS to doing that guys act...like has been said...Skeleton Dancers have been around since the 1700's!!!! Maybe earlier. What I liked about his performance was the bending over the hat. Very cute and it wouldn't be stealing if adopted by other performers. Just an adoption of a move...who knows where he got it. It's like my Ape that I put on the site http://MarionetteShow.com ...I designed it to do very effective 'knuckle walks' (see photos)...I haven't seen others do that...but it wouldn't bother me if somebody else used the idea to advance their Hat. Gotta have fun eh? Doug
Higley's Giant Flea Pocket Zibit
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