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Giant Marionette in Winnipeg! Posted by Abdolos on Jun 30, 2011
There's a great place in Winnipeg called Art City that offers year-round arts programming to the inner city community.  I got some work there designing and helping to build a giant marionette for their yearly parade.  Here are the pictures:
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Now don't you wish you lived here?
Re: Giant Marionette in Winnipeg! Posted by Billy D. Fuller on Jun 30, 2011
Very exciting.............. Did anyone get some video of piece of art in action?
Re: Giant Marionette in Winnipeg! Posted by Angel in Tx on Jun 30, 2011
Is it paper mache'? Soooo cool! I do wish I lived there.
Re: Giant Marionette in Winnipeg! Posted by Shawn on Jun 30, 2011
What a great project! Love the picture from below looking up with (I assume) you in the background.
Re: Giant Marionette in Winnipeg! Posted by Rikka on Jul 01, 2011
Great guy!I had to search for videos, but I didn't find some on the internet.
I really love it when the giant marionette hugs that man.
Re: Giant Marionette in Winnipeg! Posted by LJ on Jul 02, 2011
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Re: Giant Marionette in Winnipeg! Posted by Abdolos on Jul 02, 2011
I'm sure that there's some video footage out there, but I haven't gotten it yet.  I'll post it when I get it.

The limbs and head of the marionette are carved from styrofoam and coated with papier mache.  The torso is built out of cardboard strips built up on a mailing tube, and is also coated with papier mache.

You got it, Shawn, I'm the guy in the hat!
Re: Giant Marionette in Winnipeg! Posted by Rikka on Jul 03, 2011
Great what can be done with those materials! So it is good you didn't have a storm, so lightweight a puppet would have been blown to Montreal?
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