Every week for about two days, I begin to struggle with ideas for the next blog topic. We really want to make this blog a place of interest and learning to help in the development of Vents of all ages. What we don’t know for a certainty is whether or not we are always addressing the topics that need to be addressed in order to achieve that goal.…
From time to time we like to take a few minutes to focus on small things that can be important to your act. Part of having a great act is having great material to work with.
Everyday of your life, you go somewhere and overhear something that is crazy funny.…
We have gotten an idea from one of our readers that we found to be somewhat unique. We have that persons permission to share the idea, but they would rather stay anonymous for purposes of this article. (Somewhat unusual since the purpose of the idea was getting “attention”, but we will honor the request.)…
We have discussed in the past the importance of keeping your character animated to make it seem to be alive. This is an important feature in holding your audiences attention and keeping the audience focused on you the performer.
Here is a suggestion that won’t cost more than about 5 cents.…
One of the things that we notice from time to time even among great performers is that the puppets feet seem to turn backwards and wander all over the place. In some cases, this can be part of the act. With Jeff’s Achmed, it is something that comes across as planned.…
Imagination: That place that we can escape to in order to hide from the nastiness of reality; a better place. A land that does not really exist, but should.
These are three possible definitions of the word Imagination. I did not even look the word up, because I know what it means to me.…
