This is the time of the year that most everyone is digging out from their credit card bills from Christmas. You are just now beginning to see a little light at the end of the Proverbial tunnel. (And no it is not a train coming at you!)…
Just want to remind you that this is a good time for the annual maintenance on your puppet(s).
Take each one of the little fellas out and look them over. If you have an accumulation of fuzzballs on the fabric, take a razor and gently shave the fuzzballs off of them.…
Have you ever noticed that when you are watching some Ventriloquists perform that the characters head jumps up when its mouth opens? This can be very distracting to the audience, since they expect the puppet to be almost human like in its animations.…
Most of us have one or two characters that we do not use that much. We like the puppet but for some reason the character just does not seem to work for us.
How do we go about changing that situation?…
If you will take the time to watch several videos of Vents, you will see that there are two basic types of Ventriloquists. One type (and maybe the most common) is the basic “jokester”. That is a Vent/puppet who just use a series of jokes back to back with one of them being the straight man and the other the wise guy.…
Something for all of us to think about are props for our puppets. If you think back to the Charlie Brown Cartoon series, the comic characters had props. Linus had his soft and cuddly blanket.
Schroeder had his little grand piano with the bust of Beethoven.…