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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Swazzle and Patton Oswalt

Swazzle and Patton Oswalt

Swazzle provided puppets and puppeteers for a short sketch at the beginning of Patton Oswalt's new comedy DVD, My Weakness is Strong. The unrated DVD (not for kids) hits store shelves today.

Swazzle puppeteers Grant Baciocco, Brian Clark, Artie Esposito, Patrick Johnson, Sean Johnson, Victoria Johnson, and Russ Walko all helped out on the shoot.

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

New Forest Fables Puppet Stage

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The new puppet stage for Swazzle's summer puppet show, Goldilocks and the Three Buccaneers is finished, and ready for it's debut. New Swazzle puppeteer Artie Esposito will be touring this show at many Los Angeles Public Library branches.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Busy Day in the Swazzle Workshop

This is a busy time for Swazzle. Right now we are working on a couple of custom puppet builds - One of the puppets is a seven foot walk around. We are also building puppets for Swazzle's summer puppet show tour. Along with that we doing some creative development on some very cool projects... top secret, for now. Here are some photos from the day. Enjoy.

By the way, Swazzle is having auditions on April 30. Click here for more.

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Swazzle Creative Director/puppeteer/puppet builder, Sean Johnson sews sea monster tentacles for the new Swazzle puppet show, Water Color.

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Swazzle Creative Director/puppeteer/puppet builder, Patrick Johnson sands a nautilus shell for the new Swazzle puppet show, Water Color.

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Puppet show creator/director Dan Clark in the Swazzle Workshop.

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Puppeteer/puppet builder Russ Walko builds a seven foot walk around puppet for a short film.

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Puppeteer/puppet builder Artie Exposito builds a puppet for a short film in The Swazzle Workshop.

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Puppeteer/actor/writer Brian Clark develops a couple of new Swazzle projects in the Swazzle Workshop.

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