Wednesday, October 26, 2011

"The Muppets"

28ish Days till "The Muppets" hits in the U.S.!!!

As much as that makes me happy, I currently feel like crap.  
I'm sick, boo me...  Hahahaha...

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Art I Own...

"Jon's New Hair"
2010 by Jordan Deschene
Unlike last week's post which is art I've done, this is art I own.  I've managed to get a good little collection going, so every now and then I'll share one here.
This one is by Jordan, my good friend and brother at Paris In Plantsville, and somehow the subject matter looks really familiar...


Sunday, October 16, 2011

Friday, October 14, 2011

Aliens!!!

They are coming or you Gabe!

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Art

Touching The Skin
Ink on Bristol Board, comic book page
This is part of the art show at Paris In Plantsville: Halloween Extravaganza!
running from 10/15 to 11/1.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

An attractive bunch...

Ladies in Gentlemen, weighing in at one million pounds of awesome and sexy; 
The Elmwood Productions Crew 2011...
left to right:
Tricky Pete Lucco
Shane McNeal
Russ Bird
Evil Jim Williams
Rachel Ryan
Gabe Finkinstein
Jaime Williams
Jon Bristol
and 
Chris Chinaman Ly

I know it's now early for this but...  Thanks guys for an awesome year of puppet madness!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Buy Gear!


Shameless self-promotions here...
Elmwood Puppets have an Cafe Press Page!
Buy our stuff!

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Friday, October 7, 2011

Amanda's Mom


Amanda, Thank you for being a friend

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Sean


Sean 
Mouth Puppet

Sean makes an appearance in an upcoming Steve the Vampire episode!
Tomorrow we see The Three Stooges!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Friday, September 30, 2011

Posting... Every day(ish)







Gabe!



I think it's funny that people who play role playing games have rules for social skills within the game, but never really learned many useful ones in real life. Hahaha...



Me and Tricky hamming it up on a break



Jim, Russ, and Jaime puppeteering (and Shane too, but you can't see him)



Learning the lines...



Brie came, took pics and even ran the camera!



Chris with Mel



Shane is unamused, but Rachel is...



Jim, most likely making a ridiculous demand



Oh the puppets



And more puppets....






Monday, September 26, 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Russ and Liz!!!

So I'm taking a break this morning.  A break from choosing between a Kermit the Frog tie and a white shirt, or a bright yellow tie and a bright orange shirt.

Shirt and tie...  Somebody's getting married!

Liz...  I'm glad I was there all those years ago to egg Russ on to ask ya out when you started working at Borders...
And I'm glad he did...

Russ...  You're a brother to me, I love you man.  Totally hetro, since you are getting married.

Someday you two will have the most eco-friendly Muppet looking kids, and I'm going to teach them armpit farts.


Happy Birthday to the men who are Kermit...

Kermit and Rowlf Perform Rainbow Connection 
at Disney Legends Ceremony This Past Summer...
Jim Henson was inducted as a Disney Legend this year...
This was inconjunction with "The Muppets" 
coming out on Thanksgiving, 
and with his 75th Birthday,which would have been today.
The video above is from that event.
Jim did a ton of amazing things.  
Too many for me to list here, that's for sure.
One thing I do want to mention is the talent he harvested.
He wasn't afraid to give new talent a chance.  
The video above is absolute proof.
Kermit the Frog and Rowlf the Dog were two of 
Jim's characters as a performer.

Legends say Bill Baretta started out working at the Sesame Place amusement park
and Steve Whitmire took a train from Atlanta to New York 
and knocked on the Henson Company door...

Bill is now Rowlf, and Steve has Kermit since 1990.
And that's awesome.

So, Happy 75th Birthday Mr. Henson...
And Mr. Whitmire... Happy Birthday to you too!

Keep those arms up!


Monday, September 19, 2011

Sunday, September 18, 2011

What a week...!


I'm going to keep it as short as possible...
Hit four years with Brie...  She is still the best.  Ever.
We went to NY to see Jim Henson's Fantastic World...  And I'm inspired all over again.
Brie even hooked me up with a awesome t-shirt...  Featuring a Jim Henson quote I often steal for my own work...
Got a cool package from my Aunt Rita with another awesome Muppety shirt...
And now a day off...  In the studio!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Monday Song on a Sunday Morning...

Too alarming now to talk about.

Take those pictures down and shake it out.

Truth or consequence, say it aloud.

Use that evidence, race it around.

There goes my hero,

Watch him as he goes.

There goes my hero,

He's ordinary!


Don't the best of them bleed it out,

While the rest of them peter out?

Truth or consequence, say it aloud.

Use that evidence, race it around.

There goes my hero,

Watch him as he goes.

There goes my hero,


He's ordinary!

*Kudos* my hero,

Leaving all the mess.

You know my hero,

The one that's on.

There goes my hero,

Watch him as he goes.

There goes my hero,

He's ordinary!

(Foo Fighters)

Monday, September 5, 2011

Turn Up Your Speakers and Play As Loud As You Can!

20 Years ago this summer, this was the rock song on everyone's Walkman...
I remember sitting in front of my brothers giant stereo speakers blaring the single as loud as we could...  I think the tune still hold up!
So to my brother and my bros...  This one's for you, Happy Labor Day!

Thursday, September 1, 2011