This animated short film was created in 2006 by American animator Patrick Smith. It is a story about a young man who creates a hand puppet that hurts him in increasingly gruesome and bizarre ways. It is a story of desperation, fear, and an ever-present question: does the puppet have a mind of its own, or does the hand want to control it this way? This film is shown courtesy of the Portable Film Festival, www.portablefilmfestival.com You can also visit Pat Smith's personal website at http Also, just so we're clear, I did not make this movie or claim ownership of it. I am not Patrick Smith.
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Created for presentation at the 2008 New York Comic Con Avatar Fan Panel, I slapped this skit together with a short deadline mostly taken up by building the puppets. It's just after episode 311's cliffhanger and Zuko is about to catch up with our heros! If you like & know about Avatar, you'll get the humor. If you don't... Probably not. XD But hopefully you can still get a kick out of the puppet craft. A very big thanks from me to Dave Roman, Alison Wilgus, and Johane Matte for letting me participate in their panel. I had a blast! And of course many props to the insanely funny & talented Luliandfishy for coming up with and writing many of the jokes for me! www.youtube.com I do indeed fully admit & acknowledge that this is a take-off on the far more superior "Potter Puppet Pals" and no claims are made of it being wholly original in concept.
www.ted.com "Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse, who trots (and gallops) convincingly onto the TED stage.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com
