Just a quick note. This time of year it is very hard to list a new puppet every week. This is the time of year that we tend to be loaded with Christmas gifts.
This is just a reminder that we are coming up on the busiest time of the year.…
Something New
We all need to have a critic on our level of performance as a vent. If you will be brutally honest, you have the ability to be the best critic of your performance.
Set up a “stage area” at your house in a spare room or in the basement if you have one.…
Something New
The question about what are you doing with your left hand is relevant only if you are are using your right hand to hold your puppet. If you are using your left hand to hold your puppet the same question would be true of your right hand.…
From time to time we get a request from someone that shows a spark of creativity. Recently a person contacted us and asked if they could have the face of “X” puppet, and the hands of “Y” puppet, the body of “Z” puppet.…
Something New
We have talked about this topic before and have gotten much good feedback about it, so it is probably a good thing to mention it again from time to time as a reminder.
When you are performing, make sure that your puppets eyes stay focused on someone in the audience while he/she is speaking.…
Stop for a minute and think about some of the best Ventriloquists you have ever seen. Then think about the ones that you remember that seemed the most “lifeless” and were just a puppet with a moving mouth. Even though the ventriloquist was good and had no lip movement, if the rest of the puppet just “sat there” without moving, the act was at best only half as good as it could have been.…