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In Nantes, a city in the western part of France, giants roam the streets. Towering over humans, a trio of giants including an adult man, a female child and a dog journey through the city peacefully, attracting crowds along the way. It’s a performance by a puppet troupe called Royal de Luxe. The company has become famous for putting on enormous puppet shows that use actual cities as a giant puppet theater. The result is awe-inspiring. Click through to watch a video of the performance.
If you spend any amount of time watching the Muppets, it becomes really easy to start thinking of them as their own entities. It isn’t so much that they’re alive or that they’re people — they’re just uniquely themselves. Once you’ve suspended your disbelief, being reminded that you’re seeing inanimate objects brought to life by puppeteers can be surreal. It’s a phenomenon I wrote about late last summer after seeing Trace Beaulieu and Bill Corbett — the puppeteers behind Crow T. Robot of “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ — at Dragon*Con.
This weekend, I felt that same sensation, only in reverse, when I had the privilege of attending a lecture and workshop by Steve Whitmire. Find out why it was surreal after the jump.
Crow vs. Crow: Trace Beaulieu and Bill Corbett at Dragon*Con ’09
by Tracy V. Wilson | September 10, 2009
Confession time: My suspension of disbelief must have been cranked up to 11 back in the Comedy Central days of “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” I never wondered how Joel (or Mike) eats and breathes, or other science facts. And, until Sunday, I never thought of the ‘bots as puppets. I didn’t think of them as robots, either … I just thought of them as themselves. Crow was Crow. Tom Servo was Tom Servo. You get the picture.
But then I saw Trace Beaulieu and Bill Corbett at the “Crow vs. Crow” panel at Dragon*Con.
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