Wow, there is a bacon flavoured condom
on the market.
I don't know how I feel about this.
Pictures from
Festival of Animated Objects that Dom and I volunteered for last month.
Paul Zaloom of
Beakman's World fame was there and we took him to a couple local flea markets. Antiquing with the Beakman, great day out with the kidlet.
The marionette is from
Phillip Huber - he did the puppetry for Being John Malcovich and Oz the Great and Powerful. That little Pierrot made my chest fill up - it moved like a small child and invoked a powerful empathy from most of the audience.
It was very interesting from an anthropological perspective. There was a point in his performance that people were clapping for the marionette doing little tricks. Huber's maneuvers at the time weren't that fancy but he had humanized the puppet so effectively that people actually forgot that someone else was manipulating this inanimate object. I was very impressed.
Paul is playing with the Incredible Hulk action figure I brought for his workshop. He was showing us how to do puppetry using found objects, the other is from when my kidlet and I took him to the flea market, he's holding up a jacket he bought.
The lady is
Astrid Hadad and her costumes are amazing and morph and change all the time. The silver dress went along with a song about how the Spanish took all of Mexico's silver to make their beautiful altars, so there is blood and death within them from the Mexicans who died in the mines.
Zaloom with Butch
Dom with her childhood hero
Paul's fancy flea market find
Zaloom Smash!
Huber's Pierrot
Astrid's Commentary