When: Thursday, October 25, 7–10pm ($20) Where: Bob Baker Marionette Theater (1345 W. 1st St, Echo Park, Los Angeles) More info at Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
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The first thing you see in Sketch book Revue, the hour-long puppet show recently on view at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, is the trio of marionette dogs.
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When: Reception on Saturday, June 9, 7pm; performance at 8pm (Tickets $15) Where: Bob Baker Marionette Theater (1345 W. 1st St, Echo Park, Los Angeles) More info at Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
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I think he's a marionette in the hands of bandits.
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A marionette, dangling before the lapping flames of his master's furnace.
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When she's relieved, her shoulders drop like she's a discarded marionette.
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Basil Twist, the puppeteer, flew a marionette like a fluttering spirit.
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In three visits, I discovered I am a marionette street performer.
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A typical suspension bridge dangles from cables, like a marionette from strings.
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Whenever everyone's favorite deceptive marionette told a lie, his wooden nose grew.
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Another depicts Mr. O'Connor hanging from marionette strings held by Ms. Pelosi.
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" YouGuessMe_wDy said: "She felt like a marionette, with no energy in her eyes.
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Hizbullah, an Iranian marionette, is the strongest force in Lebanon and menaces Israel.
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The Blackjack slumped to the ground, a marionette whose strings had been cut.
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"There has never been a marionette theater in Gaza," Karera, 39, told Reuters.
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But Ricky is selective about who gets a marionette and who doesn&apost.
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There are two showings at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in Central Park.
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I imagined myself a robot losing power, or a marionette with two snapped strings.
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"A member of Parliament must never become the marionette of any lobby," he insisted.
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Like everyone was controlling me with strings, and I was just this Marionette doll.
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Ultimately, you will become a puppet master and your 33D avatar will be your marionette.
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The actor David Arquette showed off a marionette of Mr. Shandling that he had made.
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Then I'll stop writing and maybe decorate lampshades or run a marionette theater or something.
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He also created shadow-puppet films like "The First Circus" (22003), toys, and marionette shows.
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Seeing Todd, he reacted like a marionette being lifted, rushing to open the back door.
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There's a certain marionette-like awkwardness to the way characters move in Grand Theft Auto games.
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SALZBURG MARIONETTE THEATER'S 'THE NUTCRACKER' The venerable Austrian company brings its handcrafted puppets to Queens. Dec.
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You know, now people are coming from all over to see Larry and his little marionette.
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In 1981, Osaka band Dendö Marionette released a four-track, self-titled flexi disc on QP Records.
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And, since it's all taking place at the historic Bob Baker Marionette Theater, there will be puppets.
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Standing, marionette-like, with outstretched arms, she produced wordless vocalizations accompanied by clicks, pops and wet sputters.
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The old Bolshoi style of reckless hugeness is replaced here by slapstick cuteness and marionette-type characterizations.
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In the tutorial above, which is borderline disturbing, so watch at your own risk, Milosevic becomes a marionette.
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Instead of "manipulating a character like a marionette," says Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Second Life creator Linden Lab.
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A South Korean college student holds a placard depicting South Korea's President Park Geun-hye as a marionette.
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It's only now, looking back, that I see all the politics, the marionette strings, the staging of desire.
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You can think of building that character as kind of analogous to building a marionette in real life.
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Most audience members at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater politely turn off their cellphones before the curtain rises.
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Or any story, really — and that's a bigger problem than the bad score and sluggish 20-foot marionette.
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"I work in marionette because of the odd feeling of a suspended realism that isn't too real," Morris explains.
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You're telling me I'm not supposed to resemble a marionette flung around by a deranged puppeteer when I sleep?
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After the war was over, he performed a marionette act in USO shows in Asia and the South Pacific.
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CEOs aren't "finding their voice"; they're finding a way to control government like a marionette, while hiding the strings.
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Tellingly, she ends the show on a wordless scene in which Maria (Alessandra Fazzino) dances like a dislocated marionette.
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This song is the end credit theme to a goofy early-60s sci-fi marionette show called Fireball XL5.
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It was like watching from high above as a little marionette shook and screamed loudly on the blue earth.
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He would bring along his marionette when he went to perform as a drummer, and one day it clicked.
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For over 50 years, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater has introduced the joy of puppetry to generations of Angelenos.
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Inside Everything you Can Imagine Is Real the viewer perceives a series of warm-bodied yet marionette-like figurines.
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Guest kept busy with face painting, a show by Bob Baker Marionette Theater and even a visit from Scooby himself.
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Mali's marionette theatre originated centuries ago in the villages of Bozo fishermen and Bambara hunters in southern and central regions.
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A sugar cube arranged on a chair may be considered a marionette if someone animates it with hands and voice.
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In "Marionette," a poignant head crowns a steely, spindly body, with typewriter components and vintage gauges replacing flesh and bone.
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He laments that there are only two venues for performing puppet shows in Cairo and only a couple dozen marionette artists.
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Untrained audience members volunteer to be strapped to a mechanical exoskeleton, which will control their movements like puppeteer orchestrating a marionette.
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The first of two installations is "The Marionette Maker," a tour de force of mechanically animated puppetry inhabiting a travel trailer.
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We strolled through the city and had our first lunch at the famous Café Gabriadze, right next to the marionette theater.
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Saturday • Bring your kids to the "Three Bears Holiday Bash" variety show at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in Central Park.
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To begin with, the title character is a one-ton, 20-foot animatronic marionette, perhaps the largest puppet ever put onstage.
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The puppet maker Mirek Trejtnar clip-clopped a red-nosed marionette across a makeshift plywood stage in his studio in Prague.
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Mastering the hand control in maneuvering different parts of the marionette is extremely important to make the movements smooth and realistic.
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Smitten with the dancing figures made of wood and string at the age of six, Baker was a tireless marionette evangelist, collaborating with industry giants like Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm as well as staging intimate performances in the Bob Baker Marionette Theater he opened in 1962 just west of Downtown — the nation's oldest extant puppet theater.
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The Bob Baker Marionette Theater — the country's longest-running puppet theater — has found a new space that seems like a natural fit.
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Should Nunes just resign from his post now that everyone's aware that he's nothing more than a marionette, dancing in Trump's circus?
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Even as the bodyguard's hand darted toward his holster, a staccato burst of submachine-gun fire turned him into a bloody marionette.
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Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Marionette Maker continues at Luhring Augustine (531 West 24th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through June 11.
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"The marionette is an essential part of our culture," said Mr. Desarthis, as he settled onto a theater bench after a show.
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When Mr. Vazquez said, "I do," his face was wrinkle-free, his marionette lines and the deep indentations around his nose gone.
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At a kindergarten, Mahdi Karera, who describes himself as Gaza's first marionette-maker, put on a show about the importance of reading.
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Much harder to learn is a marionette, such as Howdy Doody, which is operated, on strings, from high above the puppet's head.
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In literature, children often appear as animals or dolls or, as in the case of Pinocchio, a marionette whose peers are animals.
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When: Friday, May 26, 8pm ($20) Where: Bob Baker Marionette Theater (1345 W. 1st St, Echo Park, Los Angeles) More info here.
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" Lutsenko told me that he chose to speak to Bloomberg "to declare my real position" and "to show I'm not Giuliani's marionette.
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We're also introduced to two new supervillains, the Marionette and the Mime, who help to add more sorely-needed diversity to the fold.
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Sketch Book Revue is a revival of the first production ever staged at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles in 1963.
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Schuler fetched Baker's favorite marionette, a circus pauper named Scherzo, and placed it on a puppet stand on the nightstand next to him.
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At La Marionette bar in Bab Sharqi, I meet Yosuf, 32, who has invested in—and designed—several bars and cafes in Damascus.
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Above her desk hung a creepy marionette of a blank-faced boy, looking like a child who had lost the will to live.
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Arabella appeared in a black cardigan with ornate pockets and skinny black pants, and she played with a Chinese marionette as she sang.
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Now, though, and because of the movie's success, Salzburg revels in its cultural cachet, with "Sound of Music" tours, marionette shows and concerts.
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Before the Bob Baker Marionette Theater closes next month, it is staging a "Hallow's Eve Artists Maze" featuring an array of Angeleno performers.
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This time, the red-haired marionette is starring in the music video for Sheeran's heartbreaking single "Happier," off of his latest album ÷ (pronounced "divide").
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In cat's cradle (2019), an interactive life-size marionette responds to and interacts with the viewer, this time in increasingly subtle and sophisticated ways.
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It's only her second solo record, her first since severing ties with Disney (her employer since age 7) and all of its marionette trappings.
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About 203 marionette companies operate in France, with the biggest concentration of theaters — known as châtelets, or little castles — found in parks around Paris.
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It originally had these marionette strings that were supposed to help him stand but we cut them off because they looked dumb as hell.
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The timeworn art of marionette theater continues to capture minds and hearts in France, where 600 puppet companies operate, some dating to the 1800s.
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Elsewhere, a puppeteer walks a marionette down a back hallway, the puppet fully in frame and the person visible only up to the knees.
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The outlandish performance had no traditional plot and was more of an exploration in movement, featuring exaggerated geometric costumes and stiff, marionette-like choreography.
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Mestre Cobra Mansa's ginga transforms into the movement of a staggering drunk, then a marionette whose puppeteer has suddenly let the string go slack.
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Walking through the draped artwork — which hangs from the ceiling like a marionette — feels like swimming, or floating, through swathes of melting pastel shades.
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Devin Morris' video collage work ...Where Salvation Is depicts a black marionette exploring the fluidity and limitations of constructed identities and the built environment.
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On view are a selection of their recent photographs, drawings, videos, and an interactive, life-size marionette that responds to and interacts with the visitor.
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The exploration of Southern culture continues from Lee's cowboy boots to Bluffton, South Carolina, where Rachel goes on a date with human marionette Jack Stone.
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There before me was my 59-year-old face: a vertical line on my forehead, marionette lines around my mouth, small creases lining my lips.
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Read our feature story on the fate of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater here and see more of the1point8's photography on his website and Instagram.
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In 216, he and partner Alton Wood opened the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in a former scenic shop on the border of Echo Park and Westlake.
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They claim that the Department of Justice, which includes the FBI, is a marionette whose strings are wound and manipulated by the political party in power.
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Topo Gigio was a sort of cross between a puppet and a marionette; three puppeteers, hidden in a black background, moved its body parts with rods.
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Lyonne is not a wispy mover; she is lead-footed, walking with a slightly bowlegged, clomping gait that can make her look like a dizzy marionette.
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The Bob Baker Marionette Theater has entertained Los Angeles audiences for half a century, bringing to life intricately designed wooden marionettes with the tug of a string.
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"I don't want to be a smoke screen for obvious corruption or a marionette for those who want to return control in the old style," he said.
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A marionette music video that started as a single-set pipe dream turned into a year long labor of love for this Brooklyn based electronic music duo.
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It was a simple game where I navigated my marionette ninja back and forth across the simple screen and mashed buttons while the small speakers bleeped and blooped.
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" [h/t Emma Fitzsimmons] Grab the kiddies and make your way to the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in Central Park for an original production of "Yeti, Set, Snow!
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The bottom line: Now that the Fed is being treated as a marionette by both the markets and the president, its much-vaunted independence is becoming increasingly insubstantial.
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Alex Evans, creative director of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, says the theater's status as a historic-cultural monument doesn't do nearly enough to preserve and continue its legacy.
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These marionette-like sculptures dangle from the wall and convey a sense of unease, even if they have a child-like magnetism that makes me want to hug them.
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The figure of the marionette, featured thematically throughout their new work, allows the artists to abstract the human form, its actions and emotional states, in ways that keenly resonate.
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It's not really the first time puppets have appeared in a Minaj video, with her video for "Barbie Tingz" released in May seeing the rapper suspended as a marionette.
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All I had to do was balance on two feet that seemed to belong to a marionette who had no idea what came next or who governed the strings.
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Inside may be skinny marionette legs of Alaskan snow crab, looking as if they're on the verge of tiptoeing off, or plumper Dungeness crab legs, curled inward like fists.
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Here's the little marionette Santa my mother-in-law won as a door prize at a Parkinson's support group just before what turned out to be her last Christmas.
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LOS ANGELES — This past May, a small team was busy putting the finishing touches on the new home of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles's Highland Park Neighborhood.
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Bunches of marionette puppets hung on racks, though the majority were still at the location the theater had occupied for over 210 years on First Street in the Westlake District.
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For all his scepticism, Mr Camara performed with her in the national marionette troupe in the 1990s, when urban companies educated Malians on subjects such as HIV and child labour.
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Another image-based public piece of theirs was Zlatan, a battery-powered paper cut-out character that danced like a marionette and kicked around a soccer ball on a string.
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If we can see the marionette strings behind magazine images and reality television, why do we expect a greater degree of transparency from the people we see on social media?
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Oh also, there's a remix of "Gucci Gang" that feels like someone turned its skeleton into a marionette and made it footwork, so definitely keep an ear out for that.
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An annual production from the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater, this puppet musical centers on a variety show put on by the Bears, in which Baby Bear asks Santa to star.
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The fair, however, is suitable for all, with crafts, lawn games, family yoga, puppet performances from the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater and opportunities to touch Madagascar hissing cockroaches and taste crickets.
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That effort resulted in "The Sultan's Elephant," in which a 36-foot-high mechanical animal and a 20-foot-high marionette roamed the streets and attracted close to a million people.
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Albert, the principal architect, sees it as a silver lining for the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, which could opt to sign a new lease on the ground floor of the building.
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From May 28 to August 3, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater will be in residence at Oxy Arts on York, a brand-new community-based arts space established by Occidental College.
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They showed how the legacy of that German composer had been translated into a Rococo-kitsch marionette theater in Salzburg, Austria, and treated the canvas as a kind of performance stage.
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The Senate's nearly unanimous support for the measure should send Putin a clear message: The American electoral system cannot be treated as a mere marionette in Russia's global cyberwarfare puppet show.
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If a justice allows himself or herself to be reduced to a facilitator of a campaign promise, then let that justice be adorned with marionette strings in lieu of the robe.
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Take when BoJack goes to see Jill Pill — a mysterious spider from his past —and finds her using her eight arachnid limbs and spiderwebs to maneuver a one-woman marionette show.
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"Dreamlands" starts with a bang: a 1977 film re-creation of Oskar Schlemmer's "Triadic Ballet" (1922), all blaring music, marionette choreography and bright bulbous costumes that turn the dancers into toys.
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" Marionette Simmons, 60, who left the Inagua district with three of her grandchildren, said she had stayed put during Hurricane Ike in 2008 and "wasn't going to take that chance again.
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He wore, as usual, a black T-shirt, tan cargo shorts, and sneakers, and his shoulders rolled with the forward-drooping aspect of a marionette being pulled up by one string.
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The massive animatronic marionette at the heart of a new stage musical, "King Kong," was honored with a special Tony, given to his Australian creators, Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company.
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The show eventually opened to stinging reviews, with most of the praise going to the towering title character himself, a colossal marionette clocking in at 20 feet tall and 2,000 pounds.
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In person, his hand gestures seemed exaggerated, his long arms pushing his long hands sideways, the palms out, fingers slightly curled, the whole hand flopping as though he were a marionette.
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" Only now, with hindsight, she writes, can she admit how she really felt: "most often, like a marionette, whose strings he was pulling, because I never knew where I stood with him.
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They ran nightly performances in the Manteo Marionette Storefront Theater on Mulberry Street until it closed in 1939, and was replaced with a rectory for the Shrine Church of Most Precious Blood.
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He&aposs the master behind this marionette and a bunch of others he&aposs made of some of his favorite people he&aposs met in Washington Square Park in New York City.
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Below are scenes from Sketchbook Revue, a revival of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater's first-ever production in 1963, as well as behind-the-scenes glimpses of Los Angeles's most beloved puppet theater.
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Related: This 3D Printed Stop-Motion Shows How Far Parents Will Go for Their Kids Enter an 'Alien Afterlife' Inside a Video Game Installation [Premiere] Haunting Mini-Marionette Music Video Made Sans CGI
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The massive marionette is in some ways as naturalistic as his co-stars — he does not burst into song or break into dance, but instead knuckle-walks and vocalizes like an actual silverback.
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Friday's roller disco party is for parents only, but on Saturday children can enjoy bird watching, a cookout, an 1860s-style exhibition baseball game and a performance by the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater.
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"Trump's saying he wanted a marionette whose strings he could pull to shutter the investigation," said Adam Goldberg, who was a special associate White House counsel to President Bill Clinton during various investigations.
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At the National Marionette Theatre in Prague, visitors can buy puppets at the gift shop, attend performances and make-your-own workshops, view old marionettes and tour the Art Deco theater from 1928.
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The dogs are followed by a procession of puppets—soldiers, a gingerbread man, a giant clown, and a teddy bear balancing on a rolling beach ball—all maneuvered by a set of marionette strings.
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Designed by Peter O'Rourke, these animals include a whimsical monkey marionette, a sinuous ostrich that's partly a hand puppet, and a fully articulated giraffe (above, with Ms. Keyamo) that is moved with a handle.
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The Marionette Maker, now at Luhring Augustine, marks the American debut of the Canadian duo's 2014 artwork of the same name, originally commissioned by the Reina Sofia for the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid.
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In concert last month at the Bowery Ballroom, he delivered these songs as if assembling them on the spot, a crooner in control of the marionette strings, but not trying to obscure his process.
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" Then Bee mocked the height and integrity of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, figuring she needed to throw out more insults at Republicans: "According to a haunted marionette, Jeff Sessions, these babies are actually baby criminals.
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Throughout the 14-minute loop of "The Marionette Maker," a tiny opera performance plays out — you can watch it from three well-worn theater seats — and the sounds of an airplane seem to pass overhead.
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Salzburg Marionette Theater: 'A Tale of Two Wolves' (Saturday) You know the pair: One wanted to devour a little girl and her grandma, and the other had its eye on a host of fellow creatures.
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Featuring new puppets, scenery and songs, this latest addition to the marionette theater's repertory shows how Pascetti learns to embrace the weather with the help of a little girl named Widget and her friend Twig.
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"For children, this is an unusual kind of entertainment," says Veeni Bils, a teacher who first saw a Bob Baker marionette production when she was a student in an adult education class in the early 143s.
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The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, which occupies what is now prime hipster real estate just outside of downtown Los Angeles, is at the heart of an intense debate about how to preserve the city's historic buildings.
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A colorful image of Bella in a ruffle-hemmed yellow and blue dress is juxtaposed with a striking black-and-white portrait of a boy with a marionette hanging around his neck, creating a stark contrast.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Since shuttering its longtime Echo Park location last fall, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been nomadic, staging performances at venues around Los Angeles until it found a new home.
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While the white-walled gallery, even with the lights turned down, doesn't have much on the architectural ambience of that Spanish "Crystal Palace," even in Chelsea "The Marionette Maker" is a pop-up carnival of atmosphere.
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Featuring three stages, the event will include entertainers like the pop group Tim Kubart and the Space Cadets, the magician the Amazing Max and a puppet show by the director of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater.
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Those slaps I mentioned landed more forcefully on the administration in general than on the man-child at its apex, who is, in Carlson's tortured rendition, a gullible marionette, his strings pulled by inveterate, habitual warmongers.
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Apollo's party included face painting, a show by Bob Baker Marionette Theater, a castle-shaped bounce house, tons of sweets like cotton candy (which Kingston was a big fan of) and even a visit from Scooby himself.
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Vit Horejs, the founder of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater, has been presenting variations of this piece of multicultural merriment since 2001, always using some three dozen wooden marionettes and rod puppets, many of them vintage examples.
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In October, New York City label Bitter Lake Recordings and Osaka's Mouse records are set to release 傀儡電伝, a record that will include the four 1981 Dendö Marionette tracks alongside an unreleased EP from 1982.
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When a director calls for a marionette skeleton with a 22-foot arm-span, big enough to grab or stomp on the normal character puppets, it's up to the fabrication department to figure out how to build it.
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In "Little Red's Hood," the latest marionette production from the City Parks Foundation, this fairy tale child has traded her cloak for a scarlet hoodie, her basket for an overworked smartphone and her extreme naïveté for blasé confidence.
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Fillers counteract that aging process by adding fullness to the cheeks, which restores skin to its original position, softening nasolabial folds (smile lines), marionette lines (creases running from the corner of the mouth to the chin) and jowls.
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If you place him in a church with a choir, his lean turns into something resembling swaying — he'll move back and forth to the music with marionette arms lifelessly swinging somewhat like pig carcasses in a meat freezer.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For the past 55 years, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been entertaining countless numbers of children and adults with puppet shows full of fantasy and whimsy at their Echo Park location.
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The building that houses the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, on the other hand, is so unremarkable that its architect is unknown even to the advocacy group LA Conservancy, which classifies it in the "vernacular," or architecturally modest, everyday style.
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Inside the Bob Baker Marionette Theater today, it's as if not a day has passed since the Sketch Book Revue staged its first production beneath the colored spotlights made of coffee cans painted black some half a century ago.
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Last summer, he circulated a cartoon depicting H. R. McMaster, the White House national security adviser, as a dancing marionette with George Soros pulling his strings and a disembodied, wrinkled hand labeled "Rothschilds" controlling strings attached to Mr. Soros.
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In addition to actors incarnating period folk — including jousters on horseback — the festival, presented by the Washington Heights and Inwood Development Corporation, offers a host of family activities: a children's costume parade, storytelling, marionette shows, circus performances and crafts.
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But even I was charmed by this story about how the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, a Los Angeles institution and one of the oldest continuously running puppet theaters in the country, is settling into its new Highland Park home.
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"The danger of nuclear war is created by the U.S." and its "evil intention," the letter said, also accusing the UNSC of being "reduced into a marionette" of the U.S. should it ignore the North's request for emergency discussions.
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With Woody as something like their high-tech onscreen marionette, they painstakingly contrive one pose, one movement, and one facial expression at a time — frame by frame, scene by scene — until he begins to resemble a living, breathing character.
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His government "understood that the arts were a very important part of creating a national identity and bringing people together," says Mary Jo Arnoldi, a curator at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington and an expert on marionette culture.
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One described Conte - who was chosen six months ago as a compromise candidate by the two anti-establishment parties that won elections last spring - a "marionette" guided by Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League, who did not come to Davos.
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Despite the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater stating on its website that the show explores three "national traumas" from the 1960s — the killings of President Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King Jr. — the story squarely focuses on Oswald's bizarre journey.
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For while the marionette of the title is portrayed by a fully grown adult actor (the perfectly cast newcomer Joe Idris-Roberts), he is less than half the size of many of the figures with whom he shares the stage.
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It took a few tries and an illegal U-turn, but we soon found ourselves outside the Teatro Gerolamo, a miniature version of La Scala familiar to past generations of cultivated Milanese audiences from the marionette shows of their childhoods.
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Most of the evening's bright spots were quieter, less bedazzled affairs, like a marionette act from Justo Thaus, the Grand Carlini, or a merry linked rings routine from Charlie Frye, the Eccentric, or some dumb jokes from Dana Daniels, the Charlatan.
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The illustrated memoir "Rezo," directed by Leo Gabriadze, combines documentary and animation to tell the story of Gabriadze's father, Rezo, a polymathic artist whose career has included work as screenwriter and as the founder of a marionette theater in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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The revival show was part of a last-ditch appeal to save the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, staged two months before the city would decide whether or not to allow the construction of an apartment building that would force the theater to close.
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I get a couple of opportunities to get wild throughout the season — I had a lot of fun drawing Greg Kinglear, the marionette version of Greg Kinnear, and I got to be really creative with a lot of the sea creatures in the underwater episode.
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With the aid of three giant chalkboards, a wooden pointer, props, literal marionette puppets, and his signature condescending professorial tone, he explained the twisted web of corruption and deceit that George Soros' "shadow party" (does that sound familiar?) has wound around the American political system.
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Wearing a pink wig and a fluffy pink and white dress, dancing like a marionette (it was a Tears of a Clown event, apparently), the 58-year-old sang Spears 2003 hit while images of the president-elect flashed on screen in the background.
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On a recent night at a cultural center in Cairo, Bakkar performed a marionette version of an Umm Kulthum concert, with a puppet standing in for the famed Egyptian diva, who dominated the airwaves across the Arab World from the 1930s until her death in 1975.
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Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company, an acclaimed puppetry troupe from Milan, will present this 350023-minute production about the town of Hamelin, its rat problem and the terrible price the Pied Piper exacted when the local people wouldn't pay him for ridding them of this scourge.
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Featuring Stefani dressed to the nines as Daphne (red wig and all!) and her boyfriend Blake Shelton as Shaggy, the party — whose guest of honor went as the titular canine character — included face painting, a show by Bob Baker Marionette Theater and even a visit from Scooby himself.
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The beautifully restored center has multiple exhibition and performance spaces, including one in the Rosary Chapel, and showcases everything from Oaxacan crafts — ornately carved alebrijes (whimsical wooden statues), indigenous textiles and traditional black pottery — to pop art, photography, string quartet performances and even the odd adults-only marionette show.
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Credit... LOS ANGELES — One afternoon last month, the shiny red curtains parted at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater to reveal the dancing Three Caballeros — puppets in the shape of a big-beaked toucan, a parrot and a rooster — manipulated from above by puppeteers dressed head to toe in red.
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It is foolhardy at best for anyone to have believed that Rihanna, a smart, shrewd, and boundlessly funny international businesswoman who can cast aside stars of rap and sports like corn husks as she pleases, could be the marionette of a nakedly ambitious, admittedly drug addled social climber like Scott.
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Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company, an acclaimed puppetry troupe from Milan, is presenting the final performances of this 90-minute production about the town of Hamelin, its rat problem and the terrible price the Pied Piper exacted when the local people wouldn't pay him for ridding them of this scourge.
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John Lydon — then known as Johnny Rotten, the lead singer of the British band the Sex Pistols — did not just espouse anarchy, he personified it, gyrating onstage like a broken marionette as he screeched against the pillars of polite society, while a hailstorm of spit rained in from the audience.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There's never a shortage of mega-art in Chelsea: a stroll one morning this week encountered such gallery-filling works as Jordan Wolfson's deranged, chain-operated marionette ("Colored sculpture," 2016) at David Zwirner and Anish Kapoor's mammoth, packed-earth "She Wolf" (2016) at Gladstone.
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For her, and for many of the audience members who have returned with their children, and then their grandchildren, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater is a reminder of the magic of childhood, the delight of old-fashioned entertainment, perfectly capped off with vanilla ice cream served in the party room next door.
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But his transformation for the routine hasn't been entirely met with limitless enthusiasm as he shares that he's gotten "mixed reviews" for deciding to shave his beard to play the famed marionette — though he stops short of revealing whether fiancée Vanessa Grimaldi gave her stamp of approval to his newly smooth face.
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Guillermo del Toro, who directed the Oscar-winning "The Shape of Water," has chosen the Pinocchio tale for the subject of his first animated film, and Matteo Garrone, the director of the widely acclaimed "Gomorrah," is also planning one about the marionette, to star another Oscar winner, the Italian comedian Roberto Benigni.
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Whereas "The Marionette Maker" is voyeuristic, "Experiment in F# Minor" requires some level of involvement: it's only activated when a passing person casts their silhouette over the sound array or lifts a hand (without touching, of course) above one of the speakers, each of which plays music in that ominous key of F# Minor.
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Over the years, the hall was used by the Heights Opera Company, the Marionette Theater Company and the Creative Artists Public Service Program, which held a competition in 1971 that gave "the place the look of a gallery that has been in a collision with a rummage sale," as The New York Times described it.
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Climb the creaking staircase lined with jewel-toned stained glass, and take your time browsing, but make it the Rezo Gabriadze Puppet Theater by noon; at the stroke of 12, the windows of the theater's clock tower burst open and offer the crowds below a charming mini-marionette show (the show repeats at 1303 p.m.).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 2007, the Estate of Kurt Cobain commissioned Los Angeles–based photographer Geoff Moore to shoot the objects that the late Nirvana frontman left behind — relics like black Converse sneakers, a broken marionette, shreds of smashed guitars, a stuffed monkey holding a tambourine, and piles of cassette tapes.
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Now that Griffin is out for the postseason, the Clippers will likely replace his typical two or three post-up possessions that lead to nowhere with their bread-and-butter: high pick-and-rolls with DeAndre Jordan driving through an open paint and Paul marionette-stringing defenders with his persuasive eyes and devilish handle.
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Shot mostly in black and white, and hacked with stylish edits that make each character look like a strained marionette, the movie opens with an Ian McShane voiceover telling us the story of Nimue the immortal Blood Queen (Milla Jovovich), a powerful sorceress who wants to unleash a plague that will ravage the world, leaving behind nothing behind but bone and dust.
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Gray is at his best in these sketches of writers he admires, as well as in the many similar sketches scattered through his previous books: Varlam Shalamov, Stanislaw Lem, J.G. Ballard (Straw Dogs); Sigmund Freud, Joseph Roth, Norman Lewis, T.E. Hulme, Llewelyn Powys (The Silence of Animals); Giacomo Leopardi, T. F. Powys, Philip K. Dick (The Soul of the Marionette); among others.
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Elsewhere, geometric abstraction meets extreme figuration; a 19673 painting by Peter Halley uses cells and conduits to elucidate networks of power, surveillance and cruelty à la Foucault, while Nayland Blake deploys a marionette and a miniature theater inspired by the writings of the Marquis de Sade (in works from 1991-94 that provide some literary-historical context for the National Endowment for the Arts culture wars of that time).
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In their video below posted to Instagram, Deepfake Zuck—who looks quite a bit like a Weekend At Bernie's-style corpse-marionette, though only sounds vaguely like a malicious being speaking through said flesh puppet's dead vocal cords—brags to the audience of his unparalleled power, all courtesy of an evil organization called "Spectre":Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people's stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures.
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Stout, 31, likes to name these women after people she's encountered in her life ("The next one is going to be named Coco," she joked when we spoke recently) and so it was not entirely surprising that for our Make T Something series — for which participants must create something in under one hour using only some basic craft supplies, a copy of The New York Times and one item of their choosing (colorful glitter, in Stout's case) — she called the six-limbed marionette she crafted Nancy.
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On the one hand, it's remarkable to see a woman like my mother, and her shabby, marginal occupation of a country that she's never understood, become a subject fit for prime-time TV. On the other, it's all played for laughs, and the more you watch Jessica the more you see her not as someone fully realized and human but as a marionette with stereotypes for strings, controlled by a legion of writers who know that they can rely on her spunk to give punch to any scene.
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