#asknims

In a most basic sense for me personally, puppets can be anything. And as a maker a performer this is so exciting and freeing. They can be as simple as a caterpillar, they can be an old man, they can represent sadness, or the sea. If done well anything can be ‘brought to life’ and when it all clicks its genuinely magic to find yourself or your audience invested and believing in something as simple as perhaps a tablecloth is alive.

It’s hard to break the stereotypes that especially the UK and US have of puppetry, that it’s just avenue Q or punch and judy (or it’s a thing for children). If you look closely however puppets are everywhere, in adverts, in films, in theatre. They can do things that people can’t and they’re amazing story tellers. 

They can tell stories with no words (for anyone who needs or prefers visual only story telling this is brilliant) They can bring a shy child out of their shell as they can breath, sit and listen and not have all the emotional weight of a human. They’ve been used in schools, in prisons, with people with dementia, to help with integration for refugees…the list goes on.

errrr really? Cause i’m not that interesting lol…

facts….facts….

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I’m short, really short lol, i’m only 5ft (154cm) 

I put the milk in the bowl before the cereal (I know right? THE HORROR)

I’m classical trained in singing, please don’t ask me to prove it lol xD

I have a bit of a skill at remembering long series of numbers

Ooooo that sounds awesome! I totally agree with the reverse of the neatness. I haven’t really thought about my own head canon too much…Well, what I do have is that he looks very similar to Cecil (obviously xD) But matted/messy hair, black eyes, blood stained skin. A few scars around face, one along his forehead. The third eye tattoo has its eye shut and has maybe been tattoo’d over with the sun logo, oh and other tattoos that are tentacles on Cecil are colossal squid ones on kevin (so they have spikes and hooks in :P).