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[puppetmaker]

I WILL BE COMPLETELY HONEST FOR 24 HOURS... You can ask one question;Any question, no matter how crazy, sinister, lewd or wrong it is. I will answer no matter what and you will have my FULL honesty; So don't ask if you don't want to know the answer.

If you ask, then you MUST put this in your Lj and see what questions you get...

(One caveat: Anything under a Non-Disclosure Agreement either previous or currently enforced will not be answered due to legal issues)

Comments

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Actually here's a really obvious question that I should have thought to ask sooner given my daughter's love of puppetry - what advice would you give to someone looking to break into the industry?

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is that my advise now would be totally different than that of even 5 years ago. With the internet, it has become easier for puppeteers to communicate with each other. What form of puppetry is she interested in? Are there any local groups she can work with? Does she want to perform or build or both?

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

At the moment she's 5 but she's always making puppets and then doing shows with them, so I'd say that she would be best off with both. It's the kind of thing I'd really like to encourage in her because she gets so much pleasure from it and she's a very creative person who gets a lot out of channeling that energy. She's mainly got hand puppets but I've just asked her which ones are her favourites and she said the ones on strings (which is fortunate because that's her main Christmas present!).