Kevin Blades

Today’s logo brought to you by the goblin puppet I finished yesterday. I really, really like it, so much so I’m hesitant to put it up for sale. And yet I will. O:P regulars know or are sometimes surprised to…

Fair warning: I hardly mention puppets at all in this one. For various reasons I often don’t sleep well Monday nights and last night was no exception. Extra stuff on my mind. Last year I decided it was time for…

Another Monday and another week of building! It still throws me sometimes that I actually look forward to my job. You’d think I’d be used to that by now. As was recently talked about in the O:P Discord, unlike most…

Almost at the stage in working in the NWN server for the O:P community that most of the mechanical infrastructure is built and I can start thinking about story and quest plot lines. This will, of course, be the video…

I often say to people curious about the scope of this field, puppetry and puppet building is small but bigger than you think. When I started, I never dreamed there would be enough people out there to turn Operation: Puppet…

It’s Wednesday, which means we’re upon another build stream day! (11am ET on Twitch and YouTube). Still not 100% sure what I’ll be building today. It’s a bit of a weird week, time-wise. I plan builds for the month ……

Yes, this again. Slowly but surely, Mastodon is becoming my sole social media platform, and it feels good. I’m still active on Instagram because I must be (unfortunately Pixelfed isn’t quite there yet, but I’ll probably jump on board that…

Happy Monday y’all! We recorded Episode 2 of Pixels and Puppets on Friday and hopefully it will make your work commute a little more bearable. Please do share around, word of mouth is our only real way of reaching people.……

It’s podcast recording day! So of course my brain went to a different subject. I’ve picked up and started tinkering with my Neverwinter Nights sever again. Neverwinter Nights (hereafter short formed to NWN) is a venerable and somewhat legendary game…

Heavy sigh. I’ve made no secret of my dislike of corporate, algorithmic social media. I’ve always been aware of its problems, but particularly after wrapping my head around Mastodon and seeing what an organic, non-exploitive platform is like, I’m finding…