Jun 27 2011

Pocket cinema: Karakuri by Matthew Allard

Oh, I’m back to blogging, my dear friendz! Just had some cluttered weekz, and absolutely great echo after visiting Belgrade’s Napravi Me! / Make Me Festival in the middle of June. The input I’ve got there was so strong, so I needed the other way out to articulate thingz.

Short documentary Karakuri by Matthew Allard had been already widespread all around the web. It’s a movie I wanted to publish at the beginning of June, but then I had mini break…  So, it’s never too late for a good dox here! Karakuri is a traditional Japanese puppet craft, actually an ancient variant of robotics.

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Matthew Allard (c) shooting Karakuri documentary
Photo taken from DSLR News Shooter

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Sep 7 2009

E-learning: How to sew puppets, part 2

This is the second part of online school for learning how to sew puppets. Feel free to post some links with your work in the comments section of these two posts, especially if they were sewed as a result of an online learning…

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Writer Hunter S. Thompson by mullishmuse (c)

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Sep 7 2009

E-learning: How to sew puppets, part 1

Recently I was asked by an artist to share some material regarding sewing, therefore I decided to cover within several posts online school for sewing puppets.

monster.jpgMonster Hand Puppet by Stacey Rebecca (c)

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