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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Why do you do it?

Coco said:
The "Real world" is a reality television program on MTV. First broadcast in 1992, the show is the longest running program in MTV history. :cool::)
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the oldest I know is COPS - 1989
 
My great-grandfather was a famous Sicilian puppeter, he travelled all Europe with his company. The shows were very well known for the quality of the represented stories (an opera could go on for several weeks) and also for the technical innovations. They merged together in their puppets the features of the two main puppet schools of Sicily: the school of Palermo and the school of Catania. Palermo puppets were heavy, tall and they have rigid bodies, Catania puppets were smaller, lighter and they had fluid movements, so they mixed them together and in the end they got very tall, lightweight and capable of very fluid motion puppets. With my grandfather the company grew up but with the coming of cinema and television all these sorts of entertainment began to fade away. The company ceased to be when my father was 17. Then he did completely another job but he told me a lot of stories about it and he used to move a puppet for me when I was a child. The puppets of the company are in a museum now. I like to think it's in my blood to be a story teller and an innovator.
 
Luca Immesi said:
My great-grandfather was a famous Sicilian puppeter, he travelled all Europe with his company. The shows were very well known for the quality of the represented stories (an opera could go on for several weeks) and also for the technical innovations. They merged together in their puppets the features of the two main puppet schools of Sicily: the school of Palermo and the school of Catania. Palermo puppets were heavy, tall and they have rigid bodies, Catania puppets were smaller, lighter and they had fluid movements, so they mixed them together and in the end they got very tall, lightweight and capable of very fluid motion puppets. With my grandfather the company grew up but with the coming of cinema and television all these sorts of entertainment began to fade away. The company ceased to be when my father was 17. Then he did completely another job but he told me a lot of stories about it and he used to move a puppet for me when I was a child. The puppets of the company are in a museum now. I like to think it's in my blood to be a story teller and an innovator.
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This sounds like an interesting subject for a feature film! Do you have any photos of your great-grandfather with the puppets?
 
Tom said:
This sounds like an interesting subject for a feature film! Do you have any photos of your great-grandfather with the puppets?
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Actually I'd like to make a documentary about it but also a feature cold be interesting. I have a book with a lot of photos but not here, this is the cover of the book (i've taken from internet).
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This is one of the main character Ettore Fierramosca, a leggendary Italian knight
http://www.operadeipupi.moonfruit.com/#/ettore-fieramosca/4509623797
This is a structure of the puppet
http://www.operadeipupi.moonfruit.com/#/struttura-dei-pupi/4510246079
This was a kind of poster of the show
http://www.operadeipupi.moonfruit.com/#/locandina/4511021786
This kind of puppets called Pupi were different from the others types because they were warrior puppets (medieval knights) and they had to fight a lot during the shows. They had iron swords and the company of my great-grandfather used special fx like fake blood, entrails of animals that went out from the puppets bodies during the battles, cut heads, smoke...
pupi_siciliani.jpg
 
Luca, wow, each one of them faces has got a story to tell! What are you waiting for?
 
"I don't know why I do it... I just know it's got to get done!"
 
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