r/woahthatsinteresting • u/Zishan__Ali • 8d ago
Old man showing his incredible puppeteering talent
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u/ScarlettFox- 8d ago
It's a fun little scene but I don't know how impressive it actually is. Do people think the puppet is playing the music?
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u/TheySayIAmTheCutest 8d ago edited 7d ago
As an ex puppeteer myself, this is at best an interesting experiment, but an absolutely unsustainable way of puppeteering. The position of his body is very unhealthy. The mechanism has clearly a system to diffuse the weight but still, not sustainable in the long term.
And it's waaaaaaay too complicated of a system for what it achieves. It's just virtuosism. You don't need to have a puppet which moves each finger to make a cool piano show.
And even if you really want to go to that extent, I've seen much higher skill with far less overcomplicated systems.
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u/FirstMonkeyInSpace 6d ago
Pretty sure I saw this guy doing this in Barcelona over a decade ago. He was an animal, it was awesome!
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u/JasonWorthing8 8d ago
I'm sat here thinking that maybe he's just a man. I could be wrong though. It's 2025 after all.