” … ‘Exactly,’ all the noblemen agreed, though they could see nothing, for there was nothing to see. “
[Excerpt from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen, 1837]
“Handabbeisser” (German for: “one who bites off hands“, from the term: ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you‘) is a blog and functions as production diary, sketchbook/portfolio-notes, news page, with occasional interviews included.
It was started in 2012, originally to communicate with a group of homeless youth in Oregon during a collaborative long-term /long-distance interview /blind-photo project (“Each reflection of myself echoes a different emotion at me”).
It is deliberately written in casual language that every average person can understand and relate to, making an effort to avoid “art-lingo” that uses language as status symbol and to create diversion addressing intentionally exclusively a particularly educated audience or one that likes to appear as such. It has been since twice deleted for various reasons and occasionally restarted again.
Promo shot Compagnie MaMa’s
Today in the rain we had a photo session for our improv marionette comedy group “Compagnie MaMa’s” and the w
Two feet
Babysteps, but I am parallel busy with a puppetry piece of Compagnie MaMa’s… two feet: Josiane Keller “two h
One hand
Today’s output is not much so far… one hand, plus what I have already one head and a second hand… Josiane Ke
A commissioned Ukrainian cat by Жулито Токаренко (Tokarenko Julia), puppeteer ホリ ヒロシHiroshi Hori and costume based on Japanese vintage photographs by 日下部金兵衛 Kusakabe Kimbei and 小川 一眞 Ogawa Kazumasa
To start with something not directly linked to the film-in-making but still related to puppets, here a grey cat co-designed wi
Compagnie MaMa’s (2015)
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Wood for the wood-chopper’s house and a test clip wood-chopper sitting by the fire
There is more needed than characteristic fabric for the puppets’ robes. We need a scene, in fact: several. For example a
Whilst preparing a costume check also checking what the others do: Michaela Pavlátová “This Could Be Me”
Michaela Pavlatova “This Could Be Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEDhuXIuwlE her highly interactive homepage
Back from the high arts to… well, the Van Gogh of puppetry
New York, New York…. well, anyways, this guy here is no lesser talent than Richard, and amazes me over and over again: M
Tokiwa eki, looking towards Kameoka (2015)
Older sketches manga pages, 雪女 Yuki Onna and 鶴の恩返し the crane’s gratitude
The topic is on my mind since… at least 5 years now, so I made other work earlier to the topic: Josiane Keller “Yu
First character design, costume sketches and earlier inspirations and sketches
The story has three main characters: Yuki, Tsuru and the young wood-chopper. Starting with some fabric tests, here a farm-girl
when do we truly know that it’s the last night ? (2015)
picture of a picture of summer clouds during a taifun (2015)
summer night (2015)
it must be that you are posing for me (2015)
猫 (2015)
sculptor’s home in August by the trainline (2015)
蛙 (2015)
山椒魚 (2015)
森 (2015)
半月 (2015)
kissaten toy (2015)
Josiane Keller – 手 (2015)
Mrs. Hamaya /picture of a picture of a picture of a tree (2015)
rice field at night (2015)
white cars (2015)
Emily エミリー (2015)
sumie teacher /Wang Shih Ming (2015)
河童 – kappa (2015)
asleep on the futon (2015)
picture of a picture – picture of a garden (2015)
picture of a picture – picture of a tree (2015)
picture of a picture – picture of a dog (2015)
picture of a picture – night window (2015)
picture of a picture – shadows group 2 (2015)
picture of a picture – family photo of two brothers (2015)
picture of a picture – screen in front of window – gossip -世間話 (2015)
picture of a picture – exhibition poster (2015)
picture of a picture – WANTED and WANTED 2 (2015)
Josiane Keller “picture of a picture – WANTED” (2015) Josiane Keller “picture of a picture – WAN