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.)…
Many times we get emails from friends who want us to create a special puppet for them. One was for a recently written book, many are for Holiday characters etc.
The problem is that there is always a time delay between when something is ordered and when we can have it done and ready to ship.…
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.…
Looking at the Calendar it is the beginning of the annual countdown to Vent Haven ConVENTion this year. Less than 3-1/2 months to go before we all load up and travel to our annual vacation from sanity.
We at The Dummy Shoppe are already deep in planning of the types of new characters we want to have at ConVENTion.…