Shadow puppet theater developed over the years in Southeast Asia as stories passed from puppeteer to puppeteer who often edited or embellished them in their own personal styles.
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Being John Malkovich is centered on a puppeteer who finds a portal into actor John Malkovich's head, but loses control when Malkovich stops being a puppet and becomes a kind of puppeteer himself.
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It's inevitable that fans will imagine Braun as the puppeteer.
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The season also reevaluates its core cast of puppeteer characters.
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SONYA BARABINSKI —Vasenka's best puppeteer, Alfonso's newlywed wife, and pregnant.
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We don't need a master puppeteer pulling the media's strings.
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Last year, Wall Street was a puppeteer for the Democrats.
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Turns out Horse is also a puppeteer with a horse head.
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We actually had Lisa be the puppeteer, which was very fun.
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Instead, it's limp and lifeless, a ragged puppet with no puppeteer.
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GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian puppeteer is tugging at heartstrings in Gaza.
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Basil Twist, the puppeteer, flew a marionette like a fluttering spirit.
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He was damned the moment he was cast as a puppeteer.
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UNINDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Putin now is a master puppeteer of Donald Trump.
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He is really freaked out by the puppeteer who performs at halftime.
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They do not simply take over one's muscles like an internal puppeteer.
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During Tuesday's episode, Tayshia called Hannah the "puppeteer" of their Mexico beach.
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Philip, a cruel puppeteer who forces the members of his household to
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He was also a producer, writer, musician, puppeteer, showrunner, and Presbyterian minister.
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The production simulated zero gravity using low-light effects and a puppeteer.
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Jim Henson, American puppeteer and creator of "The Muppets," poses with his creations.
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Wayne White has the kind of swagger you never expect from a puppeteer.
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A second-generation puppeteer, he began learning from his father at age 6.
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Imagine a puppeteer, Finnerty said, only with thousands of puppet strings to manipulate.
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The author Richard Bach and the puppeteer Jim Henson sojourned to meet Ms. Roberts.
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Watching puppeteer Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique is like experiencing an extreme episode of synesthesia.
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"Putin appears to be Trump's puppeteer," observed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
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"I love being onstage as both the main character and a puppeteer," she said.
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The Muppets first featured on "Sesame Street" were created by legendary puppeteer Jim Henson.
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The groom, who is 30 and known as Will, is a puppeteer in Charleston.
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Correction: A previous version of this article stated that the daemons were puppeteer-operated.
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But the puppeteer was suddenly replaced this summer by Disney, owners of The Muppets Studio.
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We could talk about a puppeteer who climbed the ladder, because he had those skills.
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Puppeteer Caroll Spinney played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch in the show's first episode.
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The Master Puppeteer has accomplished what all the years of Soviet saber-rattling never could.
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His father is a founder and a puppeteer with the Hastey Pudding Puppet Company in Vincennes.
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A final "demo" video shows Ms. King as puppeteer, maneuvering a head this way and that.
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But Ricky didn&apost start out making marionettes or performing as a puppeteer in the park.
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A puppeteer since childhood, he also operated Oscar the Grouch, the sour to Big Bird's sweet.
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In this first of the work's seven "ways," Jeong used her body as both puppeteer and puppet.
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Jeong's genius lies in the way she complicates gender imbalance in archetypal dynamics between puppeteer and puppet.
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In July, Matt Vogel replaced former puppeteer Steve Whitmire, who had portrayed the character for 27 years.
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As a new group of children toddled in, a ballad about the puppeteer played on a video.
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Mr. Spinney, the puppeteer who announced his retirement on Wednesday, played Oscar, as well as Big Bird.
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Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, the puppeteer behind Abby Cadabby, a regular on "Sesame Street," brings Lily to life.
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Another warned judges against the "simplistic view" that one woman had been the puppeteer of the other.
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But, collaborating with an expert puppeteer, Ms. Basso also helped control a puppet Penelope, the real star.
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So when Big Bird's famous puppeteer, Caroll Spinney died this week, Gold might have had mixed emotions.
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The clip below goes behind the scenes of the number with Bowie and puppeteer Brian Henson (Jim's son).
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One of the troupe, Ángel Kike Díaz, a cartoon-voice star and stage puppeteer, is a Cuban celebrity.
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It's hard to imagine another actress playing the calculating, but ruthless puppeteer to actor Kevin Spacey's Frank Underwood.
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In the video above, Peele is essentially acting — via face-swapping software — as a puppeteer for Obama's face.
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Here, Happy, Willy's younger son, is played by a punching bag, manipulated by a hooded, black-clad puppeteer.
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Each episode features the work of a different creator—a chain saw artist, a puppeteer, a creature sculptor.
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An obituary on Monday about the puppeteer Caroll Spinney misstated the name of the high school he attended.
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Incredibly, the longtime puppeteer worked on the show for 49 years ... and retired from 'Sesame' just last year.
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This year's ceremony featured puppeteer Martin P. Robinson, known for portraying Mr Snuffleupagus on Sesame Street for 37 years.
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That changed on January 31st, when Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan's reforming president, pushed the puppeteer aside in a bloodless coup.
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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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This velociraptor is controlled by a human puppeteer that controls all the movements and sounds that the dinosaur makes.
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Others include a roaring homeless man, a puppeteer, and a harried mom who works in a garbage disposal plant.
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It prided itself on the puppeteer role it played in defending the White House or pushing its policy platform.
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Around 2005 I was invited to go to Sesame Street to do a puppeteer training workshop for a while.
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Between 1978 and 1981, Mr. Ollé took courses, mostly to become a puppeteer at a theater institute in Barcelona.
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Brian Henson, son of famed "Sesame Street" puppeteer Jim Henson, who created the Muppets, directed the raunchy movie, People reported.
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Chubbuck, an accomplished puppeteer in her spare time, placed a brown bag with two puppets she made under her desk.
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Carroll Spinney, the puppeteer who plays Big Bird on Sesame Street, is retiring after nearly 50 years on the show.
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" Mary Robinette Kowal, a puppeteer and author of Shades of Milk and Honey, wrote, "I'm sitting in an airport crying.
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Brian Henson, son of famed "Sesame Street" puppeteer Jim Henson, who created the Muppets, directed the raunchy movie, People reported.
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After 27 years as the voice of Kermit the Frog, puppeteer Steve Whitmire will no longer voice the famous Muppet.
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Let me tell you something: He's a puppeteer, and the strings are being pulled by Democrats and the Nancy Pelosi.
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Briefly, the robot is an anonymous form that holds within itself infinite identities, moldable to the desires of the puppeteer.
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"The Happytime Murders" is directed by Brian Henson, son of former "Sesame Street" puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.
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But recited from Blanchett, performing as a puppeteer or a drunken punk in a dive bar, they become slightly ironic.
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The dialogue is scripted, but it was up to puppeteer-actors like Mr. Spinney to provide the voices and personalities.
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His solution was to bring in the puppeteer Basil Twist, a man who can create anything he wants with fabric.
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She clings to her mother, Dorothy, played by the extraordinary Yngvild Aspeli, who is the show's sole actor, and puppeteer.
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Speech is particularly important in Java, where audience members listening to their puppeteer are believed to receive protection from misfortune.
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But recited by Blanchett, performing as a puppeteer or a drunken punk in a dive bar, they become slightly ironic.
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Wilson, who worked closely with her puppeteer, Brian Fisher, said the daemons help illuminate flesh-and-blood characters like her Mrs.
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There was a crew of puppeteers, and Thom Fountain was the name of the head puppeteer who also worked the mouth.
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The company installed animatronics to control the complicated head and arms, which required a puppeteer with a remote control to operate.
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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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He described her as something of a foreign policy puppeteer who had led President Obama down unfortunate paths across the globe.
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Fukunaga spoke to the puppeteer with a studied normalcy, as if directing something made of artificial fur were an everyday occurrence.
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Brought in by Kermit puppeteer Jim Henson in 1969, Spinney's influence on the show's underlying values and infectious joy remain clear.
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Frank Oz, a puppeteer and longtime collaborator of Muppets creator Jim Henson, who died in 1990, also chimed in on Twitter.
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His understudy took over as Big Bird's puppeteer in 2015, but Mr Spinney continued to be his voice until last year.
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Mia Wasikowska stars as a puppeteer seeking revenge in this wonderfully odd and unexpected feature debut from writer and actor Mirrah Foulkes.
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Actors would initially work with puppeteer-operated daemons in order to help develop individual scenes, and then Dodgson's team would step in.
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Like their other work, We operates in similar way to the psychedelic whimsy of Pee Wee's Playhouse puppeteer and artist Wayne White.
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But now, after voicing the role of Kermit the Frog for 22015 years, voice actor and puppeteer Steve Whitmire has been fired.
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For certain other readers, his greatest novel may be the vastly darker "Sabbath's Theater" (1995), about an aging and priapic ex-puppeteer.
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Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who for decades gave life to Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street," died on Sunday.
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The Sesame Workshop said in a statement that the legendary puppeteer lived for some time with dystonia, which causes involuntary muscle contractions.
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Remembering Caroll Spinney Fans flocked to Twitter after his death in mourning and remembrance of the happiness the puppeteer bought to people.
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A puppeteer by trade, Mr. Friedman performed an anti-apartheid puppet show on the streets of South Africa from 1981 to 1987.
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Paying tribute to his skills as a composer, performer and puppeteer, the movie affirms his status as a hero of the imagination.
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It's as if they are no longer just passively watching the puppet show, but seeing and evaluating the moves of the puppeteer.
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Besides his alleged mime and puppeteer ambitions ... the multimillionaire inventor of McAfee AntiVirus software has been trying to get the Libertarian presidential nod.
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Puppeteer Caroll Spinney, who has voiced Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 years, will retire this week.
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Local media have portrayed Ms Choi as a puppeteer controlling Ms Park, managing everything from her wardrobe choices to policy on North Korea.
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Concept artist Ralph McQuarrie drew up some illustrations, while sculptor Liz Moore and puppeteer Nick Pemberton set about crafting sculptures of the helmet.
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Not be as much of a puppeteer as a director, but to fight it out with your characters, was the most important thing.
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Rowan Magee does a delicate job as James's principal puppeteer, making his movements spry early on, tentative and confused as his health weakens.
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And I'm not talking about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade.
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In this family performance at Asia Society, the musician and puppeteer Ki Midiyanto will present an hourlong show of this myth-inspired entertainment.
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In the hands of a skilled puppeteer or animator, a character can deliver an incredible performance, but I can't do either that well!
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Spinney, who suffered from the movement disorder dystonia, had provided only Big Bird's voice since 19823 while another puppeteer was in the costume.
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Spinney, who suffered from the movement disorder dystonia, had provided only Big Bird's voice since 19823 while another puppeteer was in the costume.
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As Leo O'Bannon, an Irish crime boss and political puppeteer, Finney conveys the character's long-held power in every impatient look and gesture.
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And he picked his replacements — puppeteer Matt Vogel will take over the role of Big Bird, and Eric Jacobson will become Oscar the Grouch.
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"Crude was acting like a puppet with the equity markets and dollar acting as the puppeteer," said Brian LaRose, senior technical analyst at ICAP.
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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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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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John Heginbotham, a former Mark Morris dancer, has created a new work, "Fantasque" (July 1-3), in collaboration with the veteran puppeteer Amy Trompetter.
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Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brought my yin and yang to life on "Sesame Street" before stepping down in 2018, died Sunday at 85.
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The company this week is showing off its next trick, a wearable wristband that will let you use gestures to control and puppeteer the droid.
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The puppeteer scene features the work of puppet-master Suse Wächter, who has produced a tiny version of Cate Blanchett that exactly has her smile.
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You don't have this shady figure slinking around trying to puppeteer all these different threads and trying to shift them all to his own interests.
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But not content to leave well enough alone, Mr. Kelly dresses up his narrative in ways that detract from its power, like some overzealous puppeteer.
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The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history.
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I'm gonna walk that last statement back a little bit, because Roger Stone walks a fine line between unabashed self-promoter and shadowy, secretive puppeteer.
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A brief yet bloody 1989 prologue introduces Andre Toulon (Udo Kier), the original puppeteer who discovered an Egyptian spell to animate his pint-size collection.
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The media has cultivated the reputation of Steve Bannon as chessmaster and puppeteer, both Rasputin and Svengali, a consigliere with a well-worn library card.
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The 84-year-old puppeteer played two roles on the show: the childlike Big Bird and the miserable Oscar the Grouch, appearing in thousands of episodes.
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It was a Thursday evening, and puppeteer Stacey Gordon was hard at work in her Phoenix, Arizona studio when she received the call of a lifetime.
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"When they see Zari they are looking so happy," says 18-year-old Sima Sultani, the puppeteer who voices the character in the Pashto language, Dari.
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If you lean left, Republican Jim Jordan's allegations that Cohen's (Jewish, Clinton-connected) lawyer, Lanny Davis, was the hearing's puppeteer was likely frustrating, but not shocking.
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Everything about him is the same except for one thing: Matt Vogel, who stepped in for longtime puppeteer Steve Whitmire, is the new voice of Kermit.
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So far that day, the casting had turned up three muscular brothers (tall, taller and tallest) and a Japanese-Dutch puppeteer who arrived with her puppet.
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The figure of the Jew in the anti-Semitic imagination typically presents as the éminence grise—the shadow behind the throne, the puppeteer behind the curtain.
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Trump isn't a grand political strategist, a puppeteer pulling the strings of the media and the Democrats based on some script that only he can see.
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He used the rods that puppeteer BB-8 to keep the body slightly moving at all times -- like he's constantly correcting to keep from rolling over.
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"I enjoyed that so much — being the puppeteer, being able to get people dancing and moving in a way that I wanted," Rantz-McDonald, 33, tells PEOPLE.
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He started his own "Petit Theatre" in his backyard while still a child, and began his career as an animator and puppeteer for various studios, including Disney.
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Another Garden Ridge resident, a potato-faced golf nut named Ronald, doesn't have many lines, but his main puppeteer, Sam Jay Gold, makes the most of them.
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Two months after Luise Audersch, a young German actress and aspiring puppeteer, met Karam Skaf, a Syrian musician living in a nearby refugee camp, she was pregnant.
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Pinkney: I wanted to make little fur oven mitts and put it under their armpits and just puppeteer these docile cats and put varsity jackets on them.
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The handsome, 21-year-old hotel has 152 rooms, jade-green marble floors and a puppeteer and drummer who put on an evening show beside the pool.
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That touch of wonder is just one of the elements that characterized the colorfully chaotic early days of the parade, thanks to artist and puppeteer Tony Sarg.
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Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who played Big Bird on the show for nearly 50 years, has died at age 85, Sesame Workshop announced in a statement Sunday.
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Kermit the Frog always said it wasn't easy being green, but it's the blues that got his longtime puppeteer, Steve Whitmire, fired ... according to Jim Henson's daughter.
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That might look even more true with the departure of Bannon, who cultivated (to Trump's annoyance) a reputation as being the master puppeteer of the Trump phenomenon.
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Johnson made headlines by going off-script and accusing Saudi Arabia, an important regional ally, of acting as a puppeteer in proxy wars under the guise of religion.
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Someone break out the Kermit tea meme -- the puppeteer who was behind Kermit the Frog's voice for 27 years is saying Disney actually fired him ... over the phone.
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Operated by Victor Yerrid, a Jim Henson puppeteer, Petit Michel stars alongside the real Gaubert in this three-minute video that hilariously details their friendship and working relationship.
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Puppeteer Jim Henson, pictured above, was behind some of the most well-known "Sesame Street" characters, including Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, and Kermit the Frog.
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But the accident was no laughing matter for Mr. Huibers or for Aad Peters, a Dutch puppeteer, television producer and philanthropist who bought the smaller ark in 2010.
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But talented as he was as a puppeteer, in a sense Henson simply saw the Muppets as a commercially viable creative outlet to help fund his other interests.
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Mr. Golin's producing credits also include Spike Jonze's "Being John Malkovich" (1999), a bizarre film about a puppeteer (John Cusack) who finds a portal into Mr. Malkovich's brain.
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After her friend, the Indonesian shadow puppeteer Sri Joko Raharjo, died in a car accident with his wife and infant child, only his 20003-year-old daughter survived.
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So the performers learned to watch not one monitor but up to four, confident that Leterrier would cut around any errant puppeteer arms or edges of the set.
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" He went on to eulogize AIDS victims like Gilkerson, a San Francisco actor and puppeteer who died in 1989: "The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels.
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"The face was controlled by two puppeteers using radio control transmitters and the head and neck movements performed by either Conor or lead puppeteer Rob Tygner," explains Nolan.
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At the Museum of the Moving Image, The Jim Henson Exhibition spans Henson's career and highlights the conceptual and technical innovations of the groundbreaking puppeteer and his creative collaborators.
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Now that Big Bird's original puppeteer Caroll Spinney is leaving Sesame Street after 50 years, people are wondering who can possibly step in to fill his big orange shoes.
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Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer and voice actor behind Sesame Street greats Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, will retire from the show after 50 years of embodying these characters.
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The puppeteer has only to suggest that it's time for Pence to perform, and he rises to the occasion, no matter how embarrassing or how costly to the country.
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And for the Broadway incarnation of "Oh, Hello," the fantastical puppeteer Basil Twist has been recruited to provide an extra dimension of terror for an expanded nightmare ballet sequence.
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Ursula Populoh, a 77-year-old textile artist and puppeteer in Baltimore, is a cranky enthusiast who became what Ms. Dolan calls a "philosopher in residence" at the museum.
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Little surprise, then, that her brother, Brian Henson, is also a puppeteer and director, helming "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992), "Muppet Treasure Island" (1996) and "Muppets from Space" (1999).
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Caroll Spinney, the beloved and renowned puppeteer who brought the original Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life on Sesame Street for nearly 229 years, died on Dec.
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Steve Whitmire, the puppeteer who was fired after 27 years as Kermit the Frog, said Thursday he is "devastated to have failed" Muppets founder and his mentor Jim Henson.
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Looks like Kardashian West is quite the puppeteer: Ultimately, the show ended up being a total success, with model-of-the-moment Bella Hadid even joining Kylie on the catwalk.
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Javier Ortiz-Cortés, a 13-year-old puppeteer from Bayamón, was on a church mission in Nicaragua for the final, but found an internet signal and watched on his phone.
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Stacy Gordon, the puppeteer who will be playing Julia, has a son on the autism spectrum and used to do therapeutic work with people who have autism, she told NPR.
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Whitmire first began working with Muppets in 22014, and ascended through the ranks to be appointed Jim Henson's successor as Kermit's voice and puppeteer after Henson's unexpected death in 22015.
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Ellen, the dead matriarch and closet occultist of Ari Aster's "Hereditary," invites a malevolent spirit to puppeteer her daughter and granddaughter, thus leading to the end of her entire family.
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Here, Pegg and puppeteer Warrick Brownlow-Pike unite for a performance so committed and perfect that I came away feeling as though this, surely, was the role of Pegg's dreams.
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The Major helps a special-ops team pursuing the Puppeteer (in the film, the Puppet Master), a mysterious cybercriminal who can hack into the brains of cyborgs and humans alike.
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Mark Thompson, the set and costume designer and a multiple Tony nominee, is joined in New York by a prominent puppeteer, Basil Twist, a 2015 MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" fellow.
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While Bannon is credited with helping Trump win the election in an epic upset over Hillary Clinton, the president reportedly grew to disdain Bannon's reputation in the media as his puppeteer.
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The campaign against Mr Soros, who is Jewish, used well-worn anti-Semitic themes, portraying him as a "global capitalist" and puppeteer, who tries to control Hungary from behind the scenes.
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During that time, Meszaros wore the fuzzy brown costume when ever they needed action shots of the puppet even though the iconic character was created and voiced by puppeteer Paul Fusco.
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"The strategic dilemma will be what do you prefer, an oligarch or someone possibly controlled by an oligarch, the puppet or a puppeteer?" said regional analyst and political consultant Radu Magdin.
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"As a puppeteer myself, I've never had more admiration for any performer than I have for Steve Whitmire," wrote one Muppets fan on Reddit after the news of Whitmire's firing broke.
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The students of America have gained their own platform, voicing their views for all to hear, while the National Rifle Association acts as a puppeteer behind the scenes with our politicians.
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There she meets a reclusive puppeteer, another guest, who is developing his next show, a political allegory about an insurrection of serfs, bats and donkeys against a corrupt king and queen.
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DANCE HEGINBOTHAM For the New York premiere of "Fantasque," the choreographer John Heginbotham teams with the puppeteer Amy Trompetter to bring a wondrous tableau of dancers and puppets to life. Nov.
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Click here to view original GIFOur favorite puppeteer Barnaby Dixon is back with a kickass puppet raptor that packs so many moves that it totally feels like it has its own mind.
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My deep and abiding love of software in all its forms has sent me—me—a humble suburban Pennsylvania son of a hardscrabble creative writing professor and a puppeteer, around the world.
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One wound up in, or on, the hands of a young puppeteer named Shari Lewis, who by 1953 was making a name for herself in children's television in the New York market.
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He worked with Sid and Marty Krofft in Georgia as a puppeteer and finally in 1969, Mr. Nasti opened his own company, where he hired his father, Atilio, to work beside him.
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An eerie ghost story, it was shot mainly at the church, in Stuyvesant, N.Y., which belongs to the puppeteer Dan Hurlin, who needed a tenant while he was out of the country.
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Sabbath, retired puppeteer, serial fornicator, lifelong failure, self-absorbed and immature, is the nemesis of all that is admirable, let alone respectable — but he remains indelibly alive, unsettlingly human and often hilarious.
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But the craftsmanlike aspect of his work makes more sense when you learn that, besides being a dancer and choreographer, he is a serious puppeteer, used to making things with his hands.
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The style here is in the tradition of the Japanese bunraku: the puppeteer-actors are shrouded in black clothing, with dark veils over their faces, and almost invisible against the dark background.
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That was the year the animator-puppeteer Bob Baker and his partner, Alton Wood, bought a disused, cinder-block scenic shop on the edge of downtown Los Angeles and set up shop.
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Instead, a master puppeteer called Tony Sarg — who was at the time responsible for organizing elements of the parade and Macy's animated holiday windows — was asked to design floating animals as substitutes.
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But now, with the theater in poor financial straits two years after master puppeteer Bob Baker's death, the famed theater could soon be converted into a lobby for a seven-story apartment building.
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I knew when I made the choice to let your Canadian puppeteer father knock me up that there was a good chance we'd be passing down some spectacularly weird genetic material to you.
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"The whole thing is a really big misunderstanding of what's important, in my mind," said Evans, a 230-year-old British transplant and longtime puppeteer who lives up the hill in Echo Park.
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David Joyner, the puppeteer who braved the dark abyss inside the Barney costume for a decade, described what being Barney was really like to Business Insider: Being inside this costume is pretty cool.
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" Frank Oz -- longtime puppeteer for the show and hands behind some of the beloved characters, including Bert -- also denounced Saltzman, saying, "It seems Mr. Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay.
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Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time — like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret — to puppeteer those under their influence into acting in their interests without saying a word.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center referred to Dr. Tanton as "the puppeteer" of the nativist movement and declared both FAIR and the Center for Immigration Studies, known as CIS, to be hate groups.
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Oscar the Grouch will be played by Eric Jacobson, a puppeteer who also performs Grover, Bert, and Guy Smiley for "Sesame Street," as well as Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy for the Muppets.
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By day, Cisco Brewers (about two miles southwest of town) doubles as a complimentary open-air cabaret, hosting local bands like the "cowpunky country" sextet Buckle and Shake, and the puppeteer Lizza Obremski.
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Almost exactly one month before Bannon's bombshell resignation from his position as chief strategist at the White House, Vanity Fair's Adam Ciralsky met with the man who is often been portrayed as Trump's puppeteer.
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The iconic puppets created by the late, legendary puppeteer Jim Henson have been around for more than six decades and are often held up as the last bastion of the analog fight against digital.
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Which brings me to Ford, whose master puppeteer act has really lost me because it seems designed less to actually incite plot development than to, I dunno, showcase the writers' ability to quote Plotinus?
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At one point, to affect weightlessness, Treadway balanced her back against the chair, dangled her legs forward, and grabbed a beam above her head, as Stevens (standing in for the puppeteer) held her aloft.
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Mr. Twist, a master puppeteer, revives this symbolist theater work, in which he dunks various inanimate objects into an enormous aquarium, conjuring wonder and strong emotions from the interplay of light, texture and color.
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This gives rise to an insurrection organized by a Mother Courage figure and puppeteer named Galya Armolinskaya in which some of the townspeople feign deafness to the soldiers as a gesture of civil disobedience.
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The Goop staff had been trying out "energy healing," which involved Goop employees lying on massage tables while a man stood over them making puppeteer motions as they moved, jerked, and contorted their bodies.
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You can puppeteer the smaller beasts, picking them up with your meta powers as they contort into a ragdoll state, before gently placing them down to resume their grazing on corporeal chunks of data.
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The party scene, when Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) yanks on an elaborate set of strings to puppeteer a faux rager in his house, all to the tune of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree": flawless.
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Bauersfeld was to the fish-faced admiral what James Earl Jones was to Darth—he lent his voice to the character while another actor (in this case, puppeteer Tim Rose) handled the physical body.
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The New York City premiere of "Fantasque" is a team effort: The choreographer John Heginbotham and the puppeteer Amy Trompetter create a world of large and tiny puppets alongside dancers to explore issues of morality.
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In 2008, a young man named Pepper Fajans, who had been doing some work at the Cunningham Studio—he describes himself as a dancer, a puppeteer, and a carpenter—took over as Cunningham's personal assistant.
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After graduating in 1968, he joined a Birmingham television station as an art director and puppeteer and created a daily single-panel cartoon about squirrels that ran for two years in The Birmingham Post-Herald.
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"Everything has been changing around here," Carmen Osbahr, the puppeteer who for 26 years has performed as the turquoise, hug-loving bilingual monster Rosita, said recently, during a break from filming the coming Valentine's Day special.
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But one particularly interesting note from the intro video: Julia's puppeteer, Stacey Gordon, has an autistic son herself, and sees this character as a chance to help the public understand him, and other children like him.
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With no guarantee that their longtime home would be viable even after the construction dust settled, Bechtle and Alex Evans, the executive director and head puppeteer, decided to jump without quite knowing where they would land.
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Payton has enough intelligence and foresight to puppeteer teammates and direct them toward opportunistic situations, but what makes him harder to stop than most people realize is his ability to draw two defenders to the ball.
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Even so, he's still a Tennessee boy at heart, and this month he returns to Nashville, where he got his start as a puppeteer in the early 80s on a music-education TV show called Mrs.
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Along with Soupy Sales, Buffalo Bob Smith, Bob Keeshan (better known as Captain Kangaroo), Fran Allison and his mentor, the puppeteer Paul Ashley, Mr. McCann helped shape zany, impromptu preteen local programming in television's formative years.
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His comparison of the president to crime bosses is scathing, and his descriptions of Mr. Trump's closest advisers as fawns and puppets ready to say and do as the "puppeteer" wills are frightening in a democracy.
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To give you a sense of things, Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame) wrote the script, which was executive produced by George Lucas and directed by master puppeteer Jim Henson, known best for creating The Muppets.
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It is like watching well-made marionettes handled by a not entirely expert puppeteer: You see the strings, and the movement, yes, is jerky, but the action still has charm in its complete lack of pretension.
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You've got the main puppeteer who's doing the mouth and one arm, then they've got an assist doing the other arm, and then there's somebody doing radio control of the eye blinks, and things like that.
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Instead of teaching the algorithm to paste one face onto another using a catalogue of expressions from one person, they use the facial features that are common across most humans to then puppeteer a new face.
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Rigging is akin to a puppeteer attaching strings and sticks to a physical puppet and then using them to move the character in time with voice recording (most animators record the voices before moving on to animation).
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Of course, Sony will have a say in what happens to the character and the plot of future movies, but Feige has long been seen as the master puppeteer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its success.
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You can choose to view Nufonia like a film, watching a point-of-view shot of the robot protagonist constructing a sandwich — or you can pan down to the puppeteer donning robot gloves, building the sandwich herself.
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David Riker's film about Latin American immigrants in New York City uses mostly amateur actors and consists of four stories — about day laborers, a young Mexican man in love, a sweatshop worker, and a puppeteer and his daughter.
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Chad Moldenhauer also told IGN that the show would "stay as far away from [computer-assisted] puppeteer animation as possible," opting instead for the hand-drawn aesthetic that made the game garner so much attention to begin with.
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The Five Star Movement, founded by a comic, Beppe Grillo, and by the-now deceased Gianroberto Casaleggio, whose son Davide has emerged as the party's shadow puppeteer, had been expected to garner the most votes, according to polls.
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The Creatures, created by Brooklyn musician, puppeteer, and laser light artist Jacob Graham, have gone on and on about the importance of open communication, waited with patience for Santa Claus, and even touched water for the first time.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 230 and died, too young, in 21980.
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There's a moment in the Lance Bass–produced documentary about boy-band puppeteer and notorious conman Lou Pearlman that's more heartbreaking than any one of the forlorn love songs *NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys (Pearlman's biggest conquests) ever recorded.
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"It's hard to be up here accepting an award for work on diversity and inclusion when we have a puppet president being controlled by a white supremacist puppeteer actively working against diversity and inclusion in our country," Baker began.
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On the way, he acquires a stable boy as his squire, and together the big teenager and slender boy wander through the tournament and festival grounds replete with princes and lords, whores and armorers, and a particularly comely puppeteer.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 19793.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 19453.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 21250 and died, too young, in 21212.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 4313.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 535 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 214600 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 219700 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 63383 and died, too young, in 63373.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 37923 and died, too young, in 37913.
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Noel is the writer, director and puppeteer Noel MacNeal, whose many talents include being the title character in the Jim Henson Company's preschool television series "Bear in the Big Blue House" (that is, while inside a very fuzzy costume).
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 16753.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 6853.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 21212 and died, too young, in 21570.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 211990 and died, too young, in 2116.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 21212 and died, too young, in 21249.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 403 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 5353.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 21616 and died, too young, in 60.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 212500 and died, too young, in 2126.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 583.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 19523 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 143 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 31 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 94003 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 1968.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 5 and died, too young, in 1990.
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The rainbow connection has been established in Astoria, Queens, where this museum has opened a new permanent wing devoted to the career of America's great puppeteer, who was born in Mississippi in 1936 and died, too young, in 1990.
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It's hard to believe that there isn't at least a little bit of Henson inside the young puppeteer as he demonstrates his latest creation, a glowing bug puppet that's so articulated it even has moving fingers that can grasp tiny objects.
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But Russia is commanding center stage in a presidential election for the first time in decades and President Vladimir Putin is being portrayed as a sinister puppeteer looming over the bitter contest between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.
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I'm at a loss of words to describe just how outrageous his words, his statements, his behavior has been ... and how Mr. Putin now is the master puppeteer of Donald Trump, the person who is in our Oval Office. Outrageous.
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But they were building a system that was custom-designed to the puppeteers' hands, with individual controllers per finger, so the puppeteer would have complete fidelity from his or her hand movements to the hand at the end of the rod.
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Put aside that there are those who say Steve Bannon is the president's puppeteer, or that Edith Wilson secretly ran the show while President Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated; the president alone is authorized to carry out these (and other) constitutional functions.
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The third essential element is the staging by Lake Simons, a theater artist and puppeteer who has constructed the menagerie of characters from everyday objects: Mops transform into a lion, feather dusters into cuckoos and an umbrella into an elephant's head.
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He had worked as a puppeteer and a pianist for silent films, but inspired by Wigman, he began to study with her student Truda Kaschmann, and later with Hanya Holm, another Wigman disciple, at the Bennington School of the Dance in Vermont.
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The rigging attached to the puppet was edited out in post, and different arrangements for the handles were used to try to make sure the puppeteer was only minimally in-shot, so that they only needed to use a minimum of digital painting.
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First they were introduced (individually as they took part in the experiment, naturally) to a robot named Piper, which was controlled remotely ("wizarded") by a puppeteer in another room, but had a set of recorded responses it drew from for different experimental conditions.
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In fact, Manifesto presents 13 contradictory treatises, performed by a broker, a mother, a manager, a woman at a funeral, an eyelinered punk, a choreographer, a teacher, a factory worker, a newsreader, a reporter, a puppeteer, a scientist, and a homeless man.
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The stage musical, directed by Mr. Mendes, opened in London in 2013 to mixed reviews; the American production will be directed by Jack O'Brien, who is promising changes, and it will feature a new and more avant-garde collaborator: the puppeteer Basil Twist.
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Entitled "Tale of Tales," it was made by Yuri Norstein, the doyen of Russian animators, and, starting March 13th, it shows at Film Forum for a week, together with "Rezo," a cartoon documentary about the Georgian filmmaker Rezo Gabriadze, a master puppeteer.
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So we let the stranger into our carefully-constructed mental fortress of solitude, and let them play puppeteer _________ Our Picture Prompt "Lottery Winnings" asked students if they would want to win the lottery, and if so, what they would do with the money.
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Her earliest work often felt unkind to her characters, not because of what happened to them but because the world that tripped them up seemed so clearly the invention of a puppeteer-author, one who rigged elaborate Rube Goldberg devices for their demise.
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Previous fellowship recipients have included the MacArthur-award-winning puppeteer Basil Twist, the musician Suzanne Vega and the documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, whose project led to the recently staged "Titicut Follies: The Ballet" at N.Y.U.'s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
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Henson was a voice actor as much as a puppeteer, and with "Sesame Street," whose first episode aired in 1969, you can fully see the brilliance of Henson's comic timing — and the more frenetic gifts of Frank Oz, the Laurel to Henson's Hardy.
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Ken, as he was known, began performing magic tricks as a member of the Peter Pan Magic Club, started by Abraham Hurwitz, the city's "official magician" — a title conferred by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia — and the father of the puppeteer Shari Lewis.
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The last shadow puppeteer in Damascus lost most of his equipment to war and endured life as a refugee in Lebanon, but he now believes the old Syrian art form might survive after the United Nations said it needed to be saved.
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LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES Set to Hector Berlioz's famous score, played live on piano, "Symphonie Fantastique," the underwater masterpiece by the puppeteer extraordinaire Basil Twist, returns for a 20th-anniversary production at Here, the downtown arts center where Mr. Twist runs the Dream Music Puppetry Program.
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Designed by Eric Wright and executed by the Puppet Kitchen, these beasts range from glowing fireflies, mounted on rods and held aloft, to a jointed, life-size polka-dot donkey that dances a hoedown with Weston Long, a puppeteer who's a stand-in for Mr. Carle.
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But press reports and opposition politicians suggest that Ms Choi's influence went much further: that she was in effect a puppeteer controlling Ms Park's administration, deciding everything from cabinet appointments to policy on North Korea and, prosecutors claim, using her clout to obtain money and favours.
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The Sesame Workshop is suing the production company behind the R-rated film, which was directed by Brian Henson, the son of Sesame Street puppeteer Jim Henson, claiming the raunchy movie could cause "irreparable injury" to the show's brand, according to a lawsuit obtained by The Blast.
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Legendary puppeteer Frank Oz, who created Bert, offered a pretty tone-deaf defense of this choice on Twitter: That tweet sparked a backlash from people who thought that Oz was minimizing the experiences of gay people and ignoring what Bert and Ernie have actually meant to viewers.
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A Saigon cop asks her to identify the puppeteer who collaborated with the suicide bomber, but she realizes quickly that the man isn't going to jail — and more than that, she wants to hear the confirmative pop when he is put to death in the streets.
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My personal favorite example of this embrace of the bizarre is from the July 5 episode, when Will Forte tapped in as a puppeteer with seven broken fingers, trying — and failing — to wrangle his marionettes, who were played to stumbling perfection by Rudolph, Short, Day, and Poehler.
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At work, his father, Seb (Frank Langella), is plotting against him out of fear that Jeff is going to destroy their multimillion-dollar franchise by talking about death on the show and scaring children, and he's trying to conscript Jeff's puppeteer sister, Deirdre (Catherine Keener), into his plans.
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"It seems that Putin is Trump's puppeteer, and that House Republicans have decided to join the charade," House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) said after the vote.
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Mr. Chong, a theatermaker with a longstanding interest in otherness then and now, created the piece in collaboration with its three performers: Justin Perkins, a puppeteer; Ryan Conarro, a teaching artist in Alaska's public schools; and Gary Upay'aq Beaver, a native Alaskan versed in Yup'ik drum and dance.
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"The beloved Oompa Loompas have presented something of a challenge since their inception, and it was crucial to me that we not sweep this element under the rug, but find our own creative solution to it," says O'Brien of the production, which has tapped famed puppeteer Basil Twist to come onboard.
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When the Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim sacked Cairo in the 16th century, he was said to have been so amused by a puppet show depicting the hanging of the vanquished Mamluk ruler that he sent the puppeteer to Istanbul to perform it for his son, the young Suleiman the Magnificent.
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Ms. Carnell has also been criticized for her past service on the board of Progressives for Immigration Reform, an anti-immigration group that has received funding from a foundation linked to John Tanton, who was referred to as "the puppeteer" of the nation's nativist movement by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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As for concerts, in the not very distant future, Finnerty predicted, the technology would evolve to the point at which a puppeteer sitting in the wings with a laptop could work the digital strings live — allowing the hologram to react to the crowd or to members of a live band.
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Four years after the family of Jim Henson donated much of his puppeteer archive to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens — a move announced by then-mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who planted a smooch on Miss Piggy — the work goes on permanent display this weekend, googly eyes and all.
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Perhaps Sinclair's plans to puppeteer these stations were transparent, or perhaps there are too many eyes on the commission right now to let something like this slide, but whatever the case, the merger can't go forward without FCC approval — and now FCC approval won't go forward without this hearing and revised divestiture plans.
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But his family tree has other branches — particularly bunraku, the classic form of Japanese puppetry in which the puppeteer is visible to the audience, as well as the 21st-century London and Broadway hit "War Horse," which starred a life-size, human-powered horse puppet that was transparently inanimate but also affectingly lifelike.
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In an episode about energy healing, a body healer cites the "double slit experiment" from quantum mechanics to credentialize his work—a practice that involves waving his hands like a puppeteer above a person's body to release the energy that's "trapped" in the fascia and can cause pain, disease, and emotional unrest.
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But there may also be a third factor here: Teddy Ruxpin, which cleverly used signals from cassette tapes to animate itself, was just as much a product of Silicon Valley as it was of Ken Forsse, the puppeteer and former Disney employee who came up with the idea of Ruxpin and its creative backstory.
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Autism is a developmental disorder present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts Stacey Gordon, the puppeteer who will perform the role of Julia, and Christine Ferraro who wrote her part, both have family members who are on the autism spectrum.
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When she samples a puppeteer singing "Over the Hills and Far Away," the reference isn't just for ironic context: surrounded by squelchy keyboards, the beauty of the traditional melody is preserved, and the resultant longing — for the past associated with the song, for a better world in the future — is almost too sad to bear.
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In addition to being the host, the composer, and the puppeteer on his own show, from 1968 to 2001, Mr. Rogers was a Presbyterian minister, and, thanks to Hanks, the business with the shoes and the sweater begins to resemble a secular robing, as if we were in a vestry rather than in a television studio.
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The bare bones of character and story are as follows: Morris (Mickey) Sabbath, a 64-year-old ex-puppeteer with fingers now crippled by arthritis, has lived for decades in a rural New England village, Madamaska Falls, teaching drama at a local college until forced to resign over a scandal involving a phone-sex tape and a student.
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His name was Caroll Spinney — not that many people would know it — and he was the comfortably anonymous whole-body puppeteer who, since the 1969 inception of the public television show that has nurtured untold millions of children, had portrayed the sweet-natured, canary-yellow giant bird and the misanthropic, furry-green bellyacher in the trash can outside 123 Sesame Street.
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