Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 21:22:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gregory Ballora <gregballora-AT-sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppeteer slang
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org


Here's a couple from my area:

"Flip toppping"- Lip syncing with the fingers going up
rather than the thumb going down

"Star Gazing"- Puppet with focus too high (usually
from a tired/bad puppeteer, or a badly built puppet)

"Fly Catching"-bighting the syllables instead of
opening on them

"Shake and Bake"- from Thom Fountain and Krofft
Theater, refers to sloppy and/or amaturish hand
puppetry

"Grrranimals"-from Donna Kimball, used in certain
circles in LA, refers to someone badly skipping
syllables with their lip sync. Origin was an audition
tape (not Donna's) where the word "Grrranimals" was
performed as one syllable

--- Mary Robinette Kowal
<mary-AT-otherhandproductions.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  I'm writing a book called _Talk the Talk: Authentic
> Slang from 75 American
> Subcultures_, due out from Writer's Digest books in
> Fall 2006. Mary
> Robinette has gotten me started with some great
> puppetry terms (like
> "shaking the dolly" and "focus"), and if anyone can
> suggest any other terms
> or resources that might help me learn terms, I'd be
> grateful.
> 
> Thanks!
> Luc Reid
> luc-AT-subculturetalk.com
> 
> ---
> 
> So, here are the terms I've given Luc thus far. Some
> of them might be
> regional or disputed. Chime in and I'll compile a
> list or email Luc
> directly. Thanks for helping!
> 
> Mary Robinette Kowal
> 
> meat puppet - deragatory term for human actors
> 
> shaking the dolly or wiggling the dolly - bad
> puppetry, sometimes also used
> for gigs one doesn't want to have to do. ie "Gotta
> go shake the dolly."
> 
> flapping - bad lipsync
> 
> head bobbing - shaking the whole puppet's head with
> each word
> 
> Henson stitch - a baseball stitch used for sewing an
> invisible seam (Not
> copyrighted, but I can get permission from a family
> member if it makes you
> nervous.)
> 
> Then there are things which are specialized terms,
> but not slang per se.
> focus - where the puppet's eyes seem to look. "That
> puppet has high focus."
> muscle - creating the illusion that a puppet moves
> under it's own power
> magic triangle - an imaginary triangle created by
> the eyes and nose of the
> puppet which defines the puppet's focus
> live hands - a puppet which uses human hands, gloved
> or not, instead of fake
> hands
> playboard - a puppet stage
> 
> ---
> Mary Robinette Kowal
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