Elf

  An Elf

Mouth Puppet

 And Ripper, chilling out in the studio

Forget Black Friday! Come out to "Art Weekend"!!!

Instead of giving your hard earned money to the big stores and making the rich richer…

Buy Art Not Shoes!  Or TV's.  Or video games, or whatever….

And avoid the madness too - 

December 6-7th come to Paris In Plantsville for the Small Works Arts Fair!

Along with some great affordable 

wall art will be crafters!

And 

THE ELMWOOD PUPPETS!

Come check out our spot and get a puppet for the holiday season!

Happy Thanksgiving to you,

It's become a Thanksgiving tradition for me…  To every year post this video, and to mention those who may not have the wonderful family and friends I have, and to remind us all that the only way this world will ever be better is it we all do something better for it…

"The Wandering"

I'm thankful for the roof over my head, the food on my table, the family that loves me, and the friends I have that are irreplaceable.  And for my cats a too, of course!

And so we can get a good laugh too…  "Ordinary Man"…

I can't get this out of my head tonite!!! Ahhh!!!

Lenny

Lenny

Mouth Puppet from "HEAD"

 Joe, Lenny, and part of Ben!

and Ben with Lenny's head!!!

Sweet Dreams Mr. Rankin

When Jim Henson passed away someone said:

"God must have needed Muppets in Heaven"

Arthur Rankin, Jr passed away last week…

  - So God must have needed some great animation in Heaven too.

It's a wrap!

And time for sleep...

Last day of shooting for "HEAD"…

Done.

More later when I wake up.

One day left… HEAD!

Tomorrow is the last day of principal shooting for "HEAD"  

It's a bitter sweet feeling knowing we'll be wrapping this up and getting into the editing next.  

I wrote HEAD in 2010.  I wrote it because I was still harboring a little disappointment that the previous horror movie we tried to make didn't pan out.  So over a week I cranked out a script in the dead of winter, and then just sat on it.  From 2010-2012 we talked about doing it, even tried to cast it with actors and did some location scouting and readings, but other things kept coming up that were definite priorities and other projects just seemed like more fun.  I'll leave how we went from 2010 to 2014 for another day though.  Perhaps when the movie is ready to premiere I'll tell more of the story…

Anyway -When we decided to officially do this movie last year I was just going to produce and kick back for the first time on an Elmwood Production.  But that just didn't work out, hahaha…  

  By the time the first day of shooting arrived I had made the puppets, done a new re-write, was cast as a principal character(s) and was directing.  And now I'm looking forward to the Thanksgiving break.  We'll be done shooting and we all can kick back and smile, knowing the grunt work is done.

I say it's bittersweet because I love making movies with these people.  The old Elmwood crew that's been with me all these years, and the new people who have come in on this flick.  It'll be sad not to puppet up with them out in the woods or on a dirty floor for a little bit.  

But I'm also glad to be done with shooting this flick.  Mother nature, 

locations, and time just have fought with us every step of the way.  What was supposed to be about a 5 day guerrilla style shoot turned into a off and on for 4 months shoot.  It went from;
"Yeah,. we're making this cool horror flick" 

to;
"Yeah, that damn movie"…

But I'm glad we've been making that damn movie.

And I'll be glad in two weeks when we get together to go over the scripts for our next project.

I can get these people I love back in a room and create.  

I love this stuff, and I love these people.

So I want to thank them…

Russ, Rick, Mike, Manda, Sally, Nick, Ben, Gabe, Jim, Keith,
and Brian and Joe,

and Pat, Theresa, Sean, and Jackie too…
Thank you -

Can't wait for you guys to all be sitting in a room watching this flick with me.

 Me, showing Manda, Ben, Nick, and Mike love on the first day on location

Carrie

 Carrie

Mouth Puppet from "HEAD"

 Cathy and Carrie

Carrie in progress

Cathy? Courtney?

This was sent to me by Myrrhkuri Fyve - 

I didn't even make the connection til he mentioned it in a 

comment and sent this picture over… 

Thought it would be fun to share, hahaha

Cathy

 Cathy

Mouth Puppet from "HEAD"

 Sammy, Frank, Cathy, and Carrie

Making "HEAD"

We started shooting "HEAD" in July…

Had a few false starts to be honest, but got great work done…

In October we filmed like crazy, and now we only have one day of shooting left!!!

I just wanted to share a ton of pictures from the fun I've been having…  

Can't wait for the movie to be done and out there for the world to see!
It may look like we're making comedy, since we're laughing so much in the pictures..  But I swear this is a horror flick!