Today is going to be a fun day, I'm back to puppet building for the first time in a long time. I have something of a love/hate relationship with building puppets. I enjoy it as a purely creative outlet, but don't like to be rushed or work on a deadline (this is one of many reasons I generally don't do work-for-hire jobs). It's always nice to come back to it when I have been away from it for a long time though.

I'm not working on Bear Town puppets today, although I am building for something that will hopefully pave the way towards Bear Town. There's something of a proper team - dare I say "dream team" - being assembled for that, but I don't want to risk jinxing the whole thing by saying too much too soon. There have already been enough false starts documented here.

Suffice to say, the next year or two will be busy if all goes according to plan and Bear Town is part of the plan. Here's hoping.

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Well, isn't it always the way...just as I was planning to get things back on track with Bear Town life got in the way I got sidetracked by something else. Only this time it was something very, very cool - I started working with a bunch of other puppeteers and puppet builders in Toronto and I've done more puppetry work in the past nine months than I had in previous two and a half years. The video above is of our first public performance back in February.

We've been focused on doing bunraku-style puppetry work which has got me thinking about a totally different approach to the puppetry in Bear Town. I'm not really sure when I'll be back at Bear Town full-tilt, but the gears in my head are turning.

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