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LANTERN TUTORIAL
last year, our friend jhon sanders from many mouths one stomach shared with us a short narrative tute about lantern-making from the very VERY gape-mouthed-wonder-inducing artist mykl wells. this year,...
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want some big damn horns? make them with this tutorial from big damn heroes...
it was crazy enough to have someone from tennessee just message us on FB and ask if krampuslauf philadelphia wanted some horns… but sara from big damn heroes workshop even shared her tutorial. no...
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letterpressing krampus posters
katy’s original sketch. wood type we found on ebay. at first it was hard to find enough to spell much, but we spelled a few important things. the saturday after thanksgiving, katy came to print. ben...
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maker workshop 2012
first, all the pictures can be seen here. it was an amazing day… hours and HOURS longer than last year’s workshop, but in a MUCH bigger space, MUCH kid-friendlier (did i even SEE my kids for the eight...
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up on the housetop…
well, not quite up on the housetop, but a few steps up a ladder and béla could see this puppet from his bedroom window. which wouldn’t be a good thing. ben tried on the big backpack puppet today. this...
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krampuslauf philadelphia, 2012
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt...
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the zander bruce puppet and lantern garden is planted
in march of 2012 i curated a gallery show featuring the work of a scottish textile artist named madeleine shepherd. in our few chats about scotland she told me about the beltane fire society and of...
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philadelphia pagan pride 2014, with krampuslauf philadelphia
last year the first philadelphia pagan pride day was organized by our friend rob schrweier, who has been both belsnickel and gedrier eckhardt at krampuslauf philadelphia. rob has brought a lot of...
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hyperinternship with black cherry puppet theater of baltimore
over labor day weekend tucker and i went on a field trip to meet lisa krause of baltimore’s black cherry puppet theater. she needed help making three enormous paper maché potatoes, and we certainly...
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2014 maker workshop at iMPeRFeCt gallery with cardboard artist mykl wells
this year we had a visiting artist come to workshop with us. it was mykl wells, who shared his skills with us at a distance (from tuscon) in 2012, when he taught us to make lanterns. linda...
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FAUX FIRE HOOPS! a tutorial
2014’s “kids’ mini flow showcase” at krampuslauf was a blast. it may only have been three minutes long — and the kids may have announced at the midpoint of that three minutes that they had used up...
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DANCING FANS IN POSSIBLY FEWER THAN FIFTY STEPS BUT I’M ACTUALLY AFRAID TO...
for the purposes of our november 14th workshop at laurel hill cemetery — or just for your own making at home — there are two levels of fan fun to be had. believe me, just taking the wire clothes...
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workshop at laurel hill cemetery!! (AND busking for LUX ARATI!)
we were very excited when the historic laurel hill cemetery offered us space for our workshop this year! laurel hill is a special place, “leading the way in redefining cemeteries in American culture at...
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the yule lads
we’ve been talking about adding iceland’s yule lads to KP:POS for years now. but you know, thirteen is a lot of anything. tucker had some different interpretations going through his head at various...
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preserving regional heritage and partnering with sister communities… we need...
check out our current — and pretty successful for under two hours — gofundme campaign to purchase components for making four or five boombas, creating a boomba library for parade of spirits, urglaawe,...
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parade of spirits summer camp (BETA)
by the way — kinda late to be reporting on it, i know, but we got a little bit of a start on a dream in the last week of august. we believe that it will be possible to offer some summer programming in...
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starting to build a baba yaga hut
we are working on building baba yaga’s hut… with our new friend jen! claudia has some very specific ideas about what purpose the hut (and baba) will serve this year, so stay tuned. (if you would like...
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chōchin-obake at space 12-10-11
We spent much of the summer of 2017 reallocating rooms in our home for new uses. Tuck and Béla switched bedrooms, and we moved the TV room/living room back to the cozy back of the house where we had...
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skulls for baba yaga: a tucker-produced tutorial in countless, nonlinear...
you will need: flour and water paste (consistency less like glue, more like… conditioner) pieces of glassine (torn in a variety of shapes, and you will want some curved edges to work with balloons...
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baba yaga hut progress (in progress)
well this is certainly one of our most ambitious undertakings yet. here’s claudia, faith and béla making a pile of skulls. using some new “extra” space to make big chicken legs and start weaving the...
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