Sock Puppets Are Bad At Arguing

I had an idea for a little cut away section with super low tech puppets, I was going to cut out figures on sticks, but I'm using those for some jokes in the main bulk of the show, so I decided on SOCK PUPPETS. The whole joke I came up with was that they should start with a typical tough guy trying to start an argument line like "Are you looking at my bird?" which would then be replied to in the politest possible way eg. "Why yes I was, may I say she looks ravishing!" This would then lead to a throughly lovely discourse said in true Chap style.

What do you mean you haven't read The Chap? Here old bean, click this.

As I needed some sewing practice before tackling my main puppets, I thought I'd have a go at
making the sock puppets, I wanted them to have button eyes & look very homemade. Here is the sketch page with the ideas:

You may notice some terrible theme song lyrics, more on that later.

Here are all the buttons my Mother gave me to play with:

I wanted to throw them all on the floor & rol around in them like a cat, but that would've been messy.

Here are the socks with the buttons chosen for eyes:

All these socks are mine. I have cold feet now.

I really didn't think through the logistics of sewing buttons onto an over-the-knee length sock. It took me all night to finish one. By which point I was a bottle of wine down & watching music TV. Then this happened:




To me Slow Hands by the amazing Interpol was a pretty funny song to film to. In doing it I realised several things: I don't know the words of that song as well as I thought. Also my hands are much smaller than my feet, so the sock was quite baggy & didn't move in the way I wanted it to, I may need to look into some padding. I'm also concerned that my camera didn't pick up some of the faster movements very well.

There will be more from these little fellas next week I promise!

Canadians are Awesome: What my little guys are going to look like.

So I haven't posted for a couple of weeks due to moving house, this sucks as it means I'm miles away from anywhere, but rules as the few things I am near are far more condusive toactually making this thing instead of the endless pages of scripts & writing I've been doing. Or calling everything reserch, when really I'm just googling places to buy Star Wars curtains.

Pretty much the first thing I put to paper was this:

Having drawn them, the idea being they should look like the comic characters I had previously drawn, but some how they came out looking like Canadians from the South Park Universe.



I'm kind of happy with this as Canadians are awesome. Here are some of my Favourites:

Dan Aykroyd

A Ghostbuster & a Blues Brother? You sir are Awesome.

He also makes wine. I could go on & on but I won't, we have a list to get through.

Ike Moishe Broflovski

 Yes he is fictional, no I don't care.

Leslie Nielsen

Danny Antonucci

The Creator of Ed, Edd & Eddy

Pamela Anderson

Be proud Canada, be damn Proud!

Jay Baruchel

Not only an ace actor & super proud Canadian, but I would climb over Anderson to get to him *swoon*

Here he is being super posi about his home town:

(I also recommend the Trotsky, here also is all of Undeclared on teh tube. Watch it. It's funny.)

James Howlett a.k.a Logan a.k.a Wolverine 

 

John Kricfalusi

 

Creator of this, dude changed my life <3 

John Franklin Candy 

 

Dude, you are still missed in my book. But thanks.

Michael J. Fox

 

There are plenty of others including Shatner, Cree Summer, Tara Strong, Phill Hartnell, The inventors of Trivial Pursuit, Mike Myers, Seth Rogan but I ran out of patience, time for bands:

Death From Above 1979 

I really wish I could found ANY of their videos. 

Fucked Up 

Godspeed You! Black Emperor 

 

 Rush 

 

Teegan & Sara 

 

Again, a bijillion more I coud name, Japandroids & Vovoid spring stright to mind... But that's quite enough for on. Back on course. Saturday I went to my favourite haberdasher/material shop, Anglia Fashion Fabrics. It's just magical & the ladies who work there are all just superstars. Most of my little fella's clothes will be made from dolls clothes & my scrap bag, apart from the girl cardy, which I've started knitting. So all I really needed were the eyes & some felt to play around with. I've choosen dark pink for the girls skin as I want them to have dark brown hair (Yeah for old hair extensions...). I've got the nose for my dog puppet (More on that later) & a bell for his collar. Here is a picture of what I bought!

 

Honestly it's made me pretty excited. Hehe! I have also picked out names for my guys: I believe they will be Called POPPY & HUTCH, they are both names I've used before in short stories & they seemed to work well. If you can read my scrawlings around the top of the pictures, you will see the have personalities set out & there's also the phrase that will be the title of my show, but more on that later.