THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
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These characters are what Lott calls tube puppets. Lott uses a variety of materials, including Styrofoam, bath towels and hot glue, to create his puppets.
PUPPETEER (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Lott remembers cutting up his stuffed animals and using sponges, socks and paper to make puppets as a child.
shows," she said.
Lott has built close to 70 pupets using a variety of materials, including poly-foam, Styrofoam, felt, fur, pool noodles, toddler's clothing, bath towels and a lot of hot glue.
Lott said when he would complete a puppet he would immediately find ways to make it better, even after he had spent up to several hundred hours and several hundred dollars creating it.
Most of his puppets are hand puppets, but Lott has also experimented with rod puppets, shadow puppets and marionettes. They now fill storage containers and line shelves along the walls in a rented room at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building.
Lott said each of the puppets had its own personality, like Jazz Monkey, who wears a sapphire sequined gown and has plump pink lips. She lip syncs to the song "Yes We Have No Bananas" in one of Lott's shows.
Lott has attended national and regional conventions in Oklahoma, Connecticut, Minnesota and Missouri. He was invited to attend the Sesame Street workshop last month in New York City by Martin Robinson, who plays Snuffleupagus on Sesame Street. Lott met Robinson
two years ago at a convention in Connecticut where he played a character in one of Robinson's plays.
At the workshop, Lott said he and the other puppeteers examined the seams, construction and movement of the "fancy" puppets on Sesame Street, trying to find ways to replicate the construction. He was one of 50 people who attended.
Lott said he enjoyed performing the most. He started his own company, Squiggle Puppet Productions, as a high school freshman and does shows for churches, libraries and schools. He also made the two main characters and many of the backup characters for a television show called "Lenny and Shirl", which a station in Los Angeles is trying to cast voices for. Lott pays for his supplies using the money he makes from his puppets and shows.
During the shows, he sits on a rolling stool and moves back and forth behind a box stage he constructed using PVC pipes, performing every character himself.
Lott said he used basic structure points and jokes to control the plot, but the rest was improvisation. Much of what he makes the puppets do or say is dictated by what he can pick up and how he can move around at that point in the show. He controls all the puppets and does their voices, but said it was difficult having a one-man show.
"Sometimes I get confused," he said. "I'll do a troll voice for a little girl and have to talk my way through it."
After a show, he invites his audience behind the stage to see how he operates. By doing this, Lott said he hoped to create more interest from people in the dying art form of puppeteering.
Kansan staff writer Darla Slipke can be contacted at dslipke@kansan.com.
Edited by Nicole Kelley
Mindy Ricketts/KANSAN
Wally, the mime character, is not considered good enough to be in serious puppet theater, so he generally does "lousy mime tricks," as Lott puts it.
Victim of deadly fire remembered by many
OBITUARY
BY JACK WEINSTEIN
The house fire on New Jersey street early Sunday morning claimed the life of a University of Kansas employee and his four grandchildren.
Charles Glover St., 66, died in his home at 1205 New Jersey St.
"He taught me how to drive my first car," William said. "He taught me how to drive a tractor, how to shine my shoes."
William Glover said his older brother got along with everybody.
Hemenway says Lawrence man was loyal, dedicated University employee
Glover was a member of the maintenance landscape staff at the university since 1985. He was the landscaper at the Outlook, the chancellor's residence on campus. Chancellor Robert Hemenway said in a statement that he and his wife talked to Glover almost every day. Glover had an "extraordinary talent for making things grow," he said.
"With care and diligence Charles Glover brought beauty to the grounds of Mount Oread and the Outlook for more than two decades," Hemenway said. He offered his condolences to Glover's family and friends.
Glover, the third oldest of nine children and the son of a sharecropper, had one brother and seven sisters. He came to Lawrence in 1965 with his brother and four of their sisters from Leland, Miss.
William remembered horsing around with his older brother when they were children. Charles was 13 years older than William.
Josephine Galloway lived down the street. Charles was married to Galloway's sister Ruth before
she died more than 30 years ago,
Galloway said.
"He was a smart, handsome little guy to me," Galloway said. "He would always approach you with a grin and a handshake."
Galloway said Charles was hard-working and stayed busy so the two didn't speak much anymore, but they would occasionally see each other, laugh and talk. Galloway didn't like to use the term in-law.
Kansan staff writer Jack Weinstein can be contacted at jweinstein@kansan.com.
"I accept him as my brother," she said.
KANSAS
Edited by Nicole Kelley
BTK withdraws appeal,
offers no explanation
WICHITA — BTK killer Dennis Rader abandoned his appeal Monday for his convictions in the deaths of 10 people.
In a brief court filing, his attorney, Carl Maughan, asked the court to dismiss the appeal.
Rader, who called himself BTK for his preferred method to "bind, torture and kill" his victims, pleaded guilty last year to killing 10 people from 1974 to 1991. His chilling courtroom confession ended a mystery that has haunted this Midwestern community for decades.
Court papers did not give any reason why the appeal was dropped, and Maughan did not immediately return a call to The Associated Press for comment.
He was sentenced in August 2005 to 10 consecutive life prison terms. Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the murders.
Prosecutors had sought restrictions on his prison activities so Rader would not be able to receive any instruments that he could use to make anything pornographic to satisfy sexual fantasies.
But in April, Rader's good behavior in prison earned him the right to watch television, listen to the radio, read and draw in his prison cell.
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Where: Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union 4th Floor When: Tonight at 7:30pm
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KU Filmworks
KU Filmworks promotes the production of student-produced videos and film. Founded sometime in the late ninies to a group of students who just wanted to make a movie, KU Filmworks is an outlet for the local student body to make the films that they just can't make in their theory and production classes.
We meet every Sunday at 8:00 PM at Oldfather Studios
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Movie nights are another element to our meetings that encourage members to bring in old films, new films, or even embarrassing films to show or show off.
Where: Oldother Studios
When: This Sunday 8pm
Dole Institute of Politics Student Advisory Board
The Student Advisory Board encourages and fosters student involvement at the Dole Institute of Politics. We are a diverse group of students (politically and academically) who want to encourage civic participation and public service.
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