Puppets? In *this* economy? That of course was the question going into 2024. As I’ve mentioned (a lot), thanks to wildly rising costs of living and stagnating income, times are tough for us small arts business runners. People do tend … Read the rest
We did it! We’re well into another year and everything is great! Provided you don’t look at the news or work in tech or are a journalist or…
Um. Anyway. Puppets.
There actually is some good news on the O:P … Read the rest
I wasn’t sure I was going to do one of these, as 2023 was very much a “let’s just get through it” sort of year. But today I’m feeling reflective, so let’s reflect:
Going into 2023 I knew times were … Read the rest
As a follow on from the last blog, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about where I should be focusing my efforts with O:P. Foremost as always is building for the shop. That’s my job, and the engine … Read the rest
What? Another blog post? What year is this, etc.
Been doing a lot of thinking over the last couple of months, specifically about the aforementioned “Phase II” stuff. Time to reassess.
As we near the end of 2023, it’s good … Read the rest
Yep, still here! In fact, more here than ever.
As I talked about on Ep 11 of the Pixels and Puppets podcast, thanks to many shenanigans and shady dealings from the ever-increasingly awful Etsy, it’s come time to enter … Read the rest
Believe it or not, it’s another blog entry! Told you I didn’t abandon it.
Quite a bit has happened since the last entry back in those halcyon days of… 3 weeks ago. Principally the build streams got put on hold… Read the rest
Over 3 years ago (thanks for the super accurate date system, Google), Jamie, Andrew and version 1 of The Oracle did our very first live stream. The occasion? To celebrate the YouTube channel hitting 100 subscribers.
Yesterday Scarlet pointed … Read the rest
Back from a lovely four days in New York City. Still not quite ready to shift into work mode, so taking a day to recalibrate the brain cells.
Just before the trip, Leia on the Discord server (shoutout Leia, also … Read the rest
Operation: Puppet started formally in 2018, an evolution of the previous Operation: P.U.G. (for the deep history, listen to Episode Zero of the Podcast), and the shop launched in February of 2019. In November of that year my wife … Read the rest
Going to be a busy week around the puppet mines this week. Next week is extra short as I’m off on my first actual vacation since 2019, so I’m trying to do as much building this week as possible.
There’s … Read the rest
Really fun stream yesterday. We started on the Smally, a free pattern now available from The Creature Works Studio. Tom Stewart, the principal behind Creature Works, is a long -established pro builder and has dropped by … Read the rest
