Category Archives: Images

God help us all — we’re working on the set.  How we’re doing it: first, Riley Miljan (a good egg, Riley) welded up a skeleton, with clever ways to take it apart; then, we covered it in crappy fibre-glass insulation, … Continue reading →

For the hell of it, here are some pictures of puppets in process and puppet mock-ups.        

Here’s some photos of a model of the current idea for the set.  We were belabouring some wire and plaster bandages and plasticine in an effort to make a great big (miniature) mastodon skeleton, the old idea, and Pityu spotted … Continue reading →

This one looks like the one we’re actually using.  In the absence of any puppets that are actually made yet, we made a clay sculpture and then photographed it.  Photo credit: Mercedes Bátiz-Benét.  

For the sake of clarity, I’ve pictured the puppeteers without all their gear on.  The mastodon, courtesy of Mercedes Bátiz-Benét.  

Here’s a notion of what some of the puppets might look like — the idea being that they’re made by cave-people, so they’re not super high tech.  The head might be made of wood, we think, unlike that frickin’ amazing … Continue reading →

We had to come up with an image for the show for advance publicity.  Here’s what we managed:

Here is a scull by artist Brian Jungen who creates mask and such out of baseballs and sneakers and such…very cool stuff…but fun to think of puppets created by leather rather just wood…in fact they could be rather crude as though created by light of fire in a cave somewhere…perhaps that and some carved well and out of wood…thoughts anyhow…something to go with Urvater’s script which should almost be done…we are going to have to book time at an exclusive in Mexico somewhere with our free time hey Continue reading →

for some reason fill me with a nameless sense of loss and joy at the same time.

These are photos I found somewhere out there of life-size models of neanderthals used in a diorama at the Field Museum in Boston.  They were made by a fellow named Frederick Blaschke in the late 20′s; apparently they are no … Continue reading →