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Sesame Street – Signs for Guests

Posted: October 28, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Illustration-Tags: sesame street, drawings, critters

Part of our job in the Graphics Department at Sesame Street was fashioning some dressing room door signs whenever a celebrity guest would stop by - Pete Ortiz and I would take turns drawing the signs (or call dibs if someone we liked a lot was going to be on the show!) Here is a [...]

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Halloween Monster – 2011

Posted: February 3, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 2-Categories: Propmaking, Miscellaneous Props-Tags: costumes, monsters, willkrause

I needed to make a last-minute Halloween costume, so I glued together this mask from an old cardboard box, feathers leftover from a stork puppet I made a while back, and some felt, pipe cleaners, and - of course - a handful of plastic googly eyes.

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DISASTER!

Posted: November 21, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, FIT Exhibit Graduate Program-Tags: critters, puppets, puppet

I designed this exhibit as a pop-up marketplace to be located on the site of the demolished Thunderbolt rollercoaster on Coney Island. It takes the shape of a giant squid attacking the mainland!

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Sesame Street Florist Logo

Posted: November 21, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: drawing, Props, sesame street

The florist's storefront on Sesame Street needed some dressin' up, so I made this sticker for their window, along with some stickers for non-existent credit cards.

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Puppet Stage for Miss Piggy!

Posted: September 10, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Abunch LLC-Tags: puppet, muppets, piggy

I built this puppet stage for Opening Ceremony's event at Fashion's Night Out. It was built over a long weekend out of plywood, MDF, yards of black and red velvet, and lots of Christmas lights! Andrew Bunch helped me with painting and assembly, and sewing magnets to the curtains so that they would close nicely, [...]

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Silent Library – Creature in a Jar

Posted: April 27, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 2-Categories: Silent Library-Tags: Props, willkrause, critters

This one was a challenge! I made this creature out of all sorts of materials: lobster claws, doll parts, shells from the beach, latex gloves, ping-pong balls, dust masks, shark jaws, lots of latex, and a toy octopus... a real potpourri of stuff. Katie Akana thought of the pneumatic mechanism to suddenly open the creatures' [...]

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Godzilla-like puppet Must Destroy Healthcare!

Posted: February 5, 2010-Likes: 0-Comments: 1-Categories: Propmaking, Godzilla puppet-Tags: willkrause, critters, foam

I made this puppet for a health-care advocacy group. In a short video, the puppet will wreck hospitals, clinics, and maybe even get to eat some ambulances and doctors. I'll be doing the puppeteering today, so I'll post a link as soon as it is available. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that fire will be [...]

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Blue’s Room – Critters

Posted: March 10, 2006-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, Blue's Room-Tags: Props, willkrause, critters

I learned to love polystyrene foam on this project. Sure, static electricity leads to annoying dust everywhere, but it is incredibly easy to sculpt to a smooth, kinda durable finish. Plus I got to use pipe cleaners & construction paper!

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