Cable control is possibly the coolest thing ever!! If you are old enough to remember Chucky from the Child’s Play series he was a cable controlled puppet controlled by up to seven people all with certain appendages to manipulate. The movements are so fluid and control sensitive. I am drooling thinking of using the mechanics. Anyways Ill stop blabbing and show you some process shots from Jim’s incredible work!!
The main control stick
In the skull
The begginings of the eye set.
Bueller
A random photo of Milkbone from the Notman House accompanies an article about POP in The Village Voice.
Our Chugg mysteriously ended up being the “Hot Video” feature on myspace this week.
Weird eh?
Just rewatched Conan the Barbarian for the first time since grade one. It’s still a crazy movie. Arnold barely talks at all which is a good thing but for some reason it makes me feel a little bit bad for him.
I think that Peter Jackson maybe saw this when he was a kid and liked it a little bit….Just saying.
But seriously though, why did my parents think it was okay for a six year old to watch this?!
Especially the witch scene where Arnold pumps her, then throws her into the fireplace. wtf?
Thank You Nicole for enabling me to eat all of this sugary butter. I had lots of support.
I love sugar and candy, and Candy Finnigan.
But Nicole is the sweetest.
Best Birthday cake ever!
Our friend Rob Rousseau lives down the street. He’s in a band called The Mission District and he’s a ripping guitar player. We hope to harness his shred ability in one of our films some day. (*wink wink*)
When Rob isn’t playing in front of huge crowds of screaming girls he likes to write stuff in his blog. Here is what he has to say about Beans and Bueller.
POp MOntreal came and went so fast! We had our room at the Notman House, and we feel super lucky that we had a chance to show something in there. Not so much because of POP (which was fun and all that) but more becuase the house itself is really something else. It used to belong to Montreal’s premier archival photographer, William Notman, who before 1920 was the only photographer documenting the city at the turn of the century. So every photo you’ve ever seen of Montreal in the olden days was taken by Notman.
It’s sad to see the state of the mansion at this point. It’s up for sale (got 5 million?), but the inside is quite run down and destroyed. Film crews rent the space once in a while, but other than that, the place remains boarded up.
It is kind of creepy and I should also mention that the super wealthy Notman donated this home to charity and had it turned into a hospice for women. The back end of the mansion was built and added on later. We had a chance to explore back there (it was closed off for POP) in the hospice area, and I can imagine why a regular person wouldn’t want to buy this property. Apart from the millions of dollars in renos, think of all the women over the years who spent the remainder of their lives wandering the halls of that house before eventually passing away…there must be a few ghosts lurking around in there.
milkbone railslide
It’s a shame that nobody has thought to restore the place and turn it into a gallery or artists residence to honor Notman’s contribution to photography here in Montreal.
Here are some photos of our installation. We had a small room, but it was perfect for what we had in mind. It was difficult to get a good shot of the whole installation due to the tiny size of the room, but here it is broken down into two parts. This photo is the view from the first doorway.
And here are the girls Lydia and Penelope just over to the left by the second doorway.
This guy’s made from my old neighbour Brooklyn’s sweater. HIs name is Duppy.
Pen and Lyd are awesome…Pen is Penelope on the left, Lyd is Lydia on the right. Penelope’s shoes are my favorite. I had so much fun dressing everyone.
We wish our camera didn’t suck, and that we took more photos…instead of waiting until 5 minutes before take-down time, but here you go.
The symbol was the best part of setting up. We did this after 8 hours of hanging giant puppets and rigging lights from a ten foot ceiling. Ryan and I started with a circle and took turns adding stuff to it until it was finished. All hail.
