Aw, my frickin' head! Sweetness...

After more than three months (I really must find a way to work faster...) the puppet for the Meekers is finally finished!

Sweet dreams, kids...

Foam Rubber Scissors.

Dearest Friends Of Scallywag Theatre,

Despite having to compete with the band in the next tent, STAN was a roaring success in Zomerparkfeest in Venlo. Thanks to all of the Festival people for looking after us.

Meanwhile, I'm still in puppet-making-mode, and up to my eyeballs in foam rubber. The latest puppet is for the new show that Duda is making, this time for my old friends The Meek. I'm in the final stretch now and only have hands, feet and painting to do. (Who am I kidding? That ain't "only".) Anyway, have a peak at the sneak preview I've posted with this posting.

Coming up are stints making puppets in Bulgaria and Norway, and an option for Italy next Summer. Nice. Keep you posted.

PEACE&PUPPETSjim

Unifying my Corporate Identity. Or sumfink.

As Facebook continues to dominate all things Social Media, I'm attempting to jump on the bandwagon rather than be left behind. Hence this Facebook plugin. Not sure exactly what it does or why I need it, though...

Here comes STAN (again).

Just when you thought it was safe to visit summer festivals, STAN returns to Zommerparkfeest in Venlo on August 13 at 15.15. See www.zommerparkfeest.nl for details.

Finally finished the last puppet for Duda Paiva's new show for the Estonian State Puppet Theatre, Detox The Dummy. I spent the best part of the past 4 months making 4 monkeys and a giant gorilla head for Detox. That's a lot of monkeying around.

Voice over work, kids.

Little Rockin' Roger and his Magic Glass Guitar. http://www.littlerockinroger.com/

There's a nice teaser on the site.

Here's a demo from my Voice123 profile -



Powered by Voice123 - Voiceover

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, I recently got an email from my former agent, with an option on a show at the Zomerparkfeest in Venlo on August 6th. I spent a day trying and failing to burn a dvd for the festival, and in the end reverted to uploading some scenes from STAN onto Youtube. I'll attempt to put the videos on this blog, but in case I don't manage, here's the links -

looking at my cock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkvDmgbbQdY

behind you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgwXyw9UsNY

Holes -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feto2nbGaLA

Look into my eyes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6CsWqJMgVc

Alongside all of that, I've been very busy making puppets for my dear friend and long time collaborator Duda de Paiva. http://www.dudapaiva.com I made the puppets for Bastard, and have almost finished work on five monkeys for his new production Detox the Dummy for the Estonian State Puppet Theatre.

And last week I started work on a research project with Mor Shani at Dans Ateliers, in which I'm working mostly with text, but also dancing around a bit. The circle is now square. Or sumfink.

PEACEjim