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Elias Greyhand
#1 - 2012-08-17 17:10:34 UTC
Last night I bought a puppet, mostly because I watched a documentary about puppets and it was interesting and then I watched a film about a mental dude with a puppet.

I find that I genuinely want my puppet but I am starting to question the sanity of my buying impulses.


Does anyone else have a puppet or an interest in puppetry?

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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#2 - 2012-08-17 17:31:07 UTC
Came in here expecting government conspiracies.

No puppets for me, you can thank my grandmother for that. She knitted a stuffed clown for me when I was a child and it provided years of nightmare fuel. Now I can't stand little humanoid figures that sit there on a shelf and stare at you for hours on end.

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Elias Greyhand
#3 - 2012-08-17 17:35:24 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Came in here expecting government conspiracies.

No puppets for me, you can thank my grandmother for that. She knitted a stuffed clown for me when I was a child and it provided years of nightmare fuel. Now I can't stand little humanoid figures that sit there on a shelf and stare at you for hours on end.


No tinfoil hats in here!

Humanoid? I actually don't like the idea of a "human" puppet but was disappointed in my wish for a full-body duck puppet - if you mispronounce that this seems incredibly seedy - and have "settled" for a Gibbon instead.

I'm currently trying to concoct a plan where I can use my puppet on a day-to-day basis and not be sectioned, but such plans are still at the drawing board stage.

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Klown Walk
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-08-17 20:41:22 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Came in here expecting government conspiracies.

No puppets for me, you can thank my grandmother for that. She knitted a stuffed clown for me when I was a child and it provided years of nightmare fuel. Now I can't stand little humanoid figures that sit there on a shelf and stare at you for hours on end.


So much hate on clowns.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2012-08-17 20:59:40 UTC
When I was little and saw Child's Play and Child's Play 2 I became terrified of dolls

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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#6 - 2012-08-17 20:59:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Micheal Dietrich
Klown Walk wrote:
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Came in here expecting government conspiracies.

No puppets for me, you can thank my grandmother for that. She knitted a stuffed clown for me when I was a child and it provided years of nightmare fuel. Now I can't stand little humanoid figures that sit there on a shelf and stare at you for hours on end.


So much hate on clowns.



Clowns I have no issue with, its dolls.


Edit: ok, it didn't sound nearly as weird in my head before I typed it.

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Jago Kain
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2012-08-18 02:29:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Jago Kain
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Came in here expecting government conspiracies.

No puppets for me, you can thank my grandmother for that. She knitted a stuffed clown for me when I was a child and it provided years of nightmare fuel. Now I can't stand little humanoid figures that sit there on a shelf and stare at you for hours on end.


This reminds me of when I was a youth and I was living with one of my exes who had a young son.

One night whilst she was bathing him before bed (he was two or three at the time) I went into his bedroom and rearranged all his teddies, action men (UK equivalent of GI Joe for the colonials out there) stuffed animal toys and the like and a couple of puppets so that they were "looking" at his bed. I thought he'd notice it whilst I was reading him his bedtime story and it'd make him laugh. You can probably see where this is going.

All clean and tucked up in bed I read him his story, tucked him in for the night and went downstairs turning the nightlight on as I left. I'd completely forgotten about the toys.

A few minutes later we heard screams and crying from his room and we rushed up there to see what the problem was.

Poor little mite was curled up in the corner of the room at the head of his bed pointing in terror at a wicker basket of small teddy bears that I had arranged as if they were looking over the edge of the basket at him. I don't think the low light and ominous shadows cast by the nightlight helped, but in my defence the scene wasn't any where near as sinister when I was setting it up under the main light. Looking at it in the subdued light from his vantage point I realised what an awful mistake I had made; it did look like they were climbing out of the basket to get him and the puppet I had hung from the curtain rail looked like some levitating spectre come to devour his soul.

His mother and I split up a couple of years later (I don't think it was the terror teddies that caused this... but I could be wrong) and I lost touch with him as I wasn't his biological father and had no rights in the matter.

I ran into him quite unexpectedly a couple of years back (he recognised me from some old photos; I'd never have know him as he's now in his 20s). We got talking and the incident came up and apparently he had recurring nightmares about teddies and puppets for many years afterwards and he too still has problems with being watched by anthropomorphic toys.

This would appear to be more common than you might otherwise suspect.

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Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#8 - 2012-08-20 14:05:55 UTC
Interesting, I have nil feelings regarding puppets, Clowns tho, thats another story.

Following personal sharing of experiences, mine came from going to a Circus when I was very young. I was curious about the Circus and the clowns and everything and all I could remember was the awful smell, how they beat the poor elephant to force it to move and how the poor beast groaned under the pain plus a bunch of cigarette smoking clowns that were full of sorrow, anger and despair that then proceeded to fake smiles and move awkwardly.

After that day clowns to me represent the despair of human existence, forcing others to smile as they are being eaten away by the sheer nihilism of their very existence.

Never understood the Circus, even to this day I find it a demeaning act, full of ignorance and primitive, gross and out of place in this modern day.

Also , in spanish, a puppet stand/act is a called a Teatro Guiñol btw, so you can expand your searches on puppets by googling that.

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Sin Pew
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-08-20 14:21:09 UTC
Someone's ordered a real-doll.

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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#10 - 2012-08-21 20:38:40 UTC
Brujo Loco wrote:
Interesting, I have nil feelings regarding puppets, Clowns tho, thats another story.

Following personal sharing of experiences, mine came from going to a Circus when I was very young. I was curious about the Circus and the clowns and everything and all I could remember was the awful smell, how they beat the poor elephant to force it to move and how the poor beast groaned under the pain plus a bunch of cigarette smoking clowns that were full of sorrow, anger and despair that then proceeded to fake smiles and move awkwardly.

After that day clowns to me represent the despair of human existence, forcing others to smile as they are being eaten away by the sheer nihilism of their very existence.

Never understood the Circus, even to this day I find it a demeaning act, full of ignorance and primitive, gross and out of place in this modern day.

Also , in spanish, a puppet stand/act is a called a Teatro Guiñol btw, so you can expand your searches on puppets by googling that.


I've always had a certain interest on puppets as a technique, but really never went to a show to test if i really enjoy the experience.

i am pretty sure that my interest with humanoid avatars in video game is an extension of that interest on things that look human albeit they aren't, and thus are liberated from human shortbacks, to say so.

It just is frustrating beyond words that the most perfect puppet I ever got, one which I was able to create with my own work, turns to be stuck in a video game where puppets are useless and the average player is a fetishist for metal phalus that ejaculate luminous death and blow other phalus...

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THE L0CK
Denying You Access
#11 - 2012-08-21 20:50:47 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Brujo Loco wrote:
Interesting, I have nil feelings regarding puppets, Clowns tho, thats another story.

Following personal sharing of experiences, mine came from going to a Circus when I was very young. I was curious about the Circus and the clowns and everything and all I could remember was the awful smell, how they beat the poor elephant to force it to move and how the poor beast groaned under the pain plus a bunch of cigarette smoking clowns that were full of sorrow, anger and despair that then proceeded to fake smiles and move awkwardly.

After that day clowns to me represent the despair of human existence, forcing others to smile as they are being eaten away by the sheer nihilism of their very existence.

Never understood the Circus, even to this day I find it a demeaning act, full of ignorance and primitive, gross and out of place in this modern day.

Also , in spanish, a puppet stand/act is a called a Teatro Guiñol btw, so you can expand your searches on puppets by googling that.


I've always had a certain interest on puppets as a technique, but really never went to a show to test if i really enjoy the experience.

i am pretty sure that my interest with humanoid avatars in video game is an extension of that interest on things that look human albeit they aren't, and thus are liberated from human shortbacks, to say so.

It just is frustrating beyond words that the most perfect puppet I ever got, one which I was able to create with my own work, turns to be stuck in a video game where puppets are useless and the average player is a fetishist for metal phalus that ejaculate luminous death and blow other phalus...


Sucks that you chose to make a puppet in a game built around shiny albeit disturbingly freakishly shaped phallus's of death.

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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#12 - 2012-08-21 21:31:00 UTC
Jago Kain wrote:
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Came in here expecting government conspiracies.

No puppets for me, you can thank my grandmother for that. She knitted a stuffed clown for me when I was a child and it provided years of nightmare fuel. Now I can't stand little humanoid figures that sit there on a shelf and stare at you for hours on end.


This reminds me of when I was a youth and I was living with one of my exes who had a young son.

One night whilst she was bathing him before bed (he was two or three at the time) I went into his bedroom and rearranged all his teddies, action men (UK equivalent of GI Joe for the colonials out there) stuffed animal toys and the like and a couple of puppets so that they were "looking" at his bed. I thought he'd notice it whilst I was reading him his bedtime story and it'd make him laugh. You can probably see where this is going.

All clean and tucked up in bed I read him his story, tucked him in for the night and went downstairs turning the nightlight on as I left. I'd completely forgotten about the toys.

A few minutes later we heard screams and crying from his room and we rushed up there to see what the problem was.

Poor little mite was curled up in the corner of the room at the head of his bed pointing in terror at a wicker basket of small teddy bears that I had arranged as if they were looking over the edge of the basket at him. I don't think the low light and ominous shadows cast by the nightlight helped, but in my defence the scene wasn't any where near as sinister when I was setting it up under the main light. Looking at it in the subdued light from his vantage point I realised what an awful mistake I had made; it did look like they were climbing out of the basket to get him and the puppet I had hung from the curtain rail looked like some levitating spectre come to devour his soul.

His mother and I split up a couple of years later (I don't think it was the terror teddies that caused this... but I could be wrong) and I lost touch with him as I wasn't his biological father and had no rights in the matter.

I ran into him quite unexpectedly a couple of years back (he recognised me from some old photos; I'd never have know him as he's now in his 20s). We got talking and the incident came up and apparently he had recurring nightmares about teddies and puppets for many years afterwards and he too still has problems with being watched by anthropomorphic toys.

This would appear to be more common than you might otherwise suspect.



jago....
show me on the "doll" where the nasty puppet touched you m8 Twisted
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2012-08-21 21:34:43 UTC
You might enjoy checking out some videos of the bunraku puppet theater in Japan. Full on productions doing the old classic samurai-era tales. They take that stuff seriously, and the puppet "actors"do classical Noh and kabuki drama gestures and poses. It's pretty cool really. Same for the Balinese and Javanese shadow puppet shows.

The book Riddley Walker by Russel Hoban revolves around a puppet show travelling around post-apocalyptic England. Weird theme in a weird (but really interesting) book.
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#14 - 2012-08-21 22:03:00 UTC
THE L0CK wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Brujo Loco wrote:
Interesting, I have nil feelings regarding puppets, Clowns tho, thats another story.

Following personal sharing of experiences, mine came from going to a Circus when I was very young. I was curious about the Circus and the clowns and everything and all I could remember was the awful smell, how they beat the poor elephant to force it to move and how the poor beast groaned under the pain plus a bunch of cigarette smoking clowns that were full of sorrow, anger and despair that then proceeded to fake smiles and move awkwardly.

After that day clowns to me represent the despair of human existence, forcing others to smile as they are being eaten away by the sheer nihilism of their very existence.

Never understood the Circus, even to this day I find it a demeaning act, full of ignorance and primitive, gross and out of place in this modern day.

Also , in spanish, a puppet stand/act is a called a Teatro Guiñol btw, so you can expand your searches on puppets by googling that.


I've always had a certain interest on puppets as a technique, but really never went to a show to test if i really enjoy the experience.

i am pretty sure that my interest with humanoid avatars in video game is an extension of that interest on things that look human albeit they aren't, and thus are liberated from human shortbacks, to say so.

It just is frustrating beyond words that the most perfect puppet I ever got, one which I was able to create with my own work, turns to be stuck in a video game where puppets are useless and the average player is a fetishist for metal phalus that ejaculate luminous death and blow other phalus...


Sucks that you chose to make a puppet in a game built around shiny albeit disturbingly freakishly shaped phallus's of death.


Yeah, they shouldn't had allowed me to do it. I was pretty happy with the cartoon I had before, i even had a gorgeous signature for it.

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