Giant spider puppet

Air-powered giant spider puppet. Via.

Target is promoting the new Missoni fashion line with a giant blogging puppet

Mother New York created Marina, a 25 foot-tall blogging and tweeting puppet to promote Target's Missoni line. Via.

Wheatley puppet (Portal 2)

Wheatley puppet by Jennifer Sorrel (lots of making of photos at the link). Via.



*Previously: Interactive Talking Plush Portal Turret.

Mechanical swamp kirin

Mechanical swamp kirin by Seabat Studios. Via.

Disturbing short about Pinocchio

View on ExposureRoom

"The Tree Man" was written and directed by Navin Dev:

Set between Chapters 15 and 16 of Carlo’s Collodi’s classic novel 'The Adventures of Pinocchio', 'The Tree Man' depicts Pinocchio’s seemingly final minutes as he hangs from a tree. As he slowly dies, the wooden marionette spiritually journeys into an inferno of fear, guilt and hope through his encounters with key symbolic characters such as the Maiden with Azure Hair and the ghost of the Talking Cricket. As he falls deeper into darkness he learns the crucial dangers and virtues of the mortality he seeks.

Via.

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Animal sculptures by Deborah Simon

Lifelike animal sculptures and marionettes made by Deborah Simon out of polymer clay, epoxy, fake fur, wire, glass eyes, and foam. She talks about creating the sculptures here.

**Buy marionettes at eBay.

Cute puppet in the video for Lauri Ylönen's "Heavy"

Jacob Petersson created a cute puppet for the video for Lauri Ylönen's Heavy.

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Go Daddy Puppets

This video gives a nice look at how Furry Puppet Studio made puppets for Go Daddy:



And here's two videos featuring the puppets in action:




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Katy Perry and The Simpsons puppets

This gallery features lots of behind the scenes and making of photos from the episode of The Simpsons featuring Katy Perry and puppets.

*Previously: Ultimate Simpsons couch gag by Banksy.

*Buy Simpsons toys at eBay.

Katy Perry and The Simpsons puppets

This gallery features lots of behind the scenes and making of photos from the episode of The Simpsons featuring Katy Perry and puppets.

*Previously: Ultimate Simpsons couch gag by Banksy.

*Buy Simpsons toys at eBay.

Dancing Zombie Puppet Outbreak

Enjoy an outbreak of dancing zombie puppets in "Piece of Me Piece of You" by Three Legged Legs for Zune. The puppets were created by Adam Parker Smith and Caroline Salas. There's a lengthy explanation of how the video was created, along with lots of concept art and photos here.






The song is Fancy Footwork by Chromeo. Here they are performing on Yo Gabba Gabba:



Via.

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David Bowie finger puppets

David Bowie finger puppets - - one of several finger puppet sets on sale in this Etsy shop.

*Buy finger puppets at Amazon.

Commercial inspired by Royal de Luxe's giant marionettes

Here's a commercial for Mayflower Moving featuring a huge marionette by The Character Shop, based on Royal de Luxe's giants. TCS posted several making of photos, including this one:



And here's a similar commercial featuring a commercial by Creature Workshop:



Via.

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Monstrous puppet appliances

Monstrous refrigerator, window, and dishwasher puppets by the Furry Puppet Studio.

*Previously: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as a puppet show.

*Buy puppets at eBay.

Lost explained by a very enthusiastic puppet (spoilers)

Puppet Pierre Chang explains last night's episode of Lost (which wasn't filled with clever twists, rather, the writers were simply lying to us all season (effLocke is not a good guy, and Widmore is not a master planner)). Via.

(That's my favorite building in LA behind him, by the way. Like a modern wizard's tower.)

*Previously: Lost by Daniel Danger.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as a puppet show

Redmoon Theatre's The Cabinet:

A spectacle in miniature, The Cabinet sets the story of the murderous Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist slave Cesare in an off-kilter world of puppetry and intricate machinery. Inspired by the 1919 German Expressionist silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Cabinet creates a wild, abstracted "cabinet of curiosities" in which five puppeteers manipulate and maneuver the characters and objects much as Caligari controls Cesare's plight.

Here are my favorites from the approximately 100 images of the show:














The Chicago Sun-Times gave The Cabinet a rave review:

The “stage” is a giant, off-kilter dresser with various drawers and doors that open to reveal a disorienting, Piranesi-like world of black-and white. The arms of the puppeteers (who at times hang upside down on unseen scaffolding) manipulate a vast array of richly expressive puppets and “objects” that include everything from elaborate pop-up books to scissors and daggers that snip and stab as necessary, leaving only red ribbons of blood behind.

Via.

*Previously: Tin Man marionette.

*Buy The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari posters at eBay.