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But first a photo of Pig and Elephant.
For the Visual Impaired: This is a picture of Gerald the Elephant (he wears glasses) and Piggy from the Mo Willems series of book.
My husband has been working very hard this week. He finished a novel (that we can’t talk about yet), a script for the visual medium (that we can’t talk about yet), and a comic book script (that we can’t…what’s that? That was announced? OK) for the Coheed and Cambria comic book he is working on.
So today he is taking Caroline out for a Daddy and Daughter Day. They are going to the gym then to lunch and then to a movie (Marmaduke which she really wants to see)
Which gives me the day to work without interruption for the most part. I figure I can do both my chores and work on my art. That is going to include a lot of power tools. I also have to find a piece of spring steel to complete the mechanism. I finally found the spring I needed.
I just found out that Frank Ballard passed away (as in I was typing this entry and an e-mail about his passing appeared in my mail box) He probably wasn’t a household name for most but if you were a Puppeteer, his name means a lot. He started the puppetry program at UConn. He taught a generation or two of puppeteer. He got other people in theater to look at puppetry differently. He enriched the landscape of American Puppetry. He will be missed by his family, his friends, his students and a lot of puppeteers who admired him greatly. I met him only once but we had a nice conversation about the state of Puppetry in America and Europe. I left the discussion inspired to continue my quest to teach others about puppetry.
So I am dedicating my performance at Field Day in memory of Mr. Ballard.
Off to make nails for the Elephant and then make KnuffleBunny and the infamous pigeon.
I am grateful for what Frank Ballard did for puppetry.
For the Visual Impaired: This is a picture of Gerald the Elephant (he wears glasses) and Piggy from the Mo Willems series of book.
My husband has been working very hard this week. He finished a novel (that we can’t talk about yet), a script for the visual medium (that we can’t talk about yet), and a comic book script (that we can’t…what’s that? That was announced? OK) for the Coheed and Cambria comic book he is working on.
So today he is taking Caroline out for a Daddy and Daughter Day. They are going to the gym then to lunch and then to a movie (Marmaduke which she really wants to see)
Which gives me the day to work without interruption for the most part. I figure I can do both my chores and work on my art. That is going to include a lot of power tools. I also have to find a piece of spring steel to complete the mechanism. I finally found the spring I needed.
I just found out that Frank Ballard passed away (as in I was typing this entry and an e-mail about his passing appeared in my mail box) He probably wasn’t a household name for most but if you were a Puppeteer, his name means a lot. He started the puppetry program at UConn. He taught a generation or two of puppeteer. He got other people in theater to look at puppetry differently. He enriched the landscape of American Puppetry. He will be missed by his family, his friends, his students and a lot of puppeteers who admired him greatly. I met him only once but we had a nice conversation about the state of Puppetry in America and Europe. I left the discussion inspired to continue my quest to teach others about puppetry.
So I am dedicating my performance at Field Day in memory of Mr. Ballard.
Off to make nails for the Elephant and then make KnuffleBunny and the infamous pigeon.
I am grateful for what Frank Ballard did for puppetry.
