Meet Your Maker

A chat with a poet, an artist, a cartoonist and an illustrator about creativity during Covid.

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This weeks guests are: Poet Emily S. Cooper in Donegal. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Emily_S_Cooper

Illustrator, designer and book author Charlot Kristensen's graphic novel What We Don't Talk About is available for pre-order at Avery Hill Publishing: https://averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/what-we-don-t-talk-about-by-charlot-kristensen

Charlot's website is: https://charlotkristensen.com/

Artist Mick Minogue's website is https://www.mickminoguemadethis.com/ and you can order SWP (Suprise - Woodcut - Post) from his Instagram: www.instagram.com/mickminogue

Cartoonist Chelsea Akpan's website is https://thankscocoa.com/ and is @thankscocoa on Twitter & Instagram

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How do you make a TV show during a pandemic? The classic Jim Henson children's series Fraggle Rock has returned with all new episodes shot entirely from home. We speak to puppeteers Dave Goelz, Karen Prell and John Tartaglia about returning to Fraggle Rock and shooting on iPhone.

Dave Goelz is a puppeteer who performs Gonzo the Great, Bunsen Honeydew, Beauregard, Zoot, Boober Fraggle and many other characters from The Muppet Show, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth. Karen Prell performs Red Fraggle, Yolanda Rat and many other characters on Sesame Street, Dreamchild, The Animal Show and The Muppets Take Manhattan. John Tartaglia performs Gobo Fraggle and many other characters on Dog City, Bear in the Big Blue House and Elmo the Musical. He also performed in the original cast of Avenue Q. Fraggle Rock: Rock On! is available on Apple TV now and features guests like Alanis Morissette, Common, Jason Mraz, Neil Patrick Harris, Tiffany Haddish, and Ziggy Marley.

If you enjoyed this episode you might like these Muppet related episodes of Meet Your Maker: Louise Gold on working on The Muppet Show: https://meetyourmaker.ie/episodes/as-good-as-gold-s1!a238f

A behind the scenes look of the Netflix series Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance with director Louis Leterrier, puppeteers Louise Gold and Damien Farrell and author Caseen Gaines: https://meetyourmaker.ie/episodes/cracking-the-crystal-s1!7e876

Writer Ed Valentine on how to get to Sesame Street: https://meetyourmaker.ie/episodes/sesame-street-s1!9c795

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Meet Your Maker is produced and hosted by Liam Geraghty in Dublin, Ireland.

Meet Your Maker is a founding member of The Warren - the home of great Irish podcasts. www.thewarren.ie

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Throughout COVID19 one video game has been helping people get through all this - Animal Crossing.

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Often called the founding father of Irish animation, Jimmy Murakami was behind some of the most iconic animation of all time from The Snowman to When the Wind Blows not to mention his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Pioneer of Irish animation Aidan Hickey on cut out animation, Bosco and dental surgeries...

Part 2 of Animation Island - a new mini-series from Meet Your Maker that tells the story of the Irish animation industry.

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Animation Island is a new mini-series from Meet Your Maker that tells the story of the Irish animation industry.

Episode 1 explores Walt Disney's links to Ireland, the oldest surviving piece of Irish animation and one of the first animators in Ireland - Gunther Wulff.

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Ian builds a board game to save his kids from boredom on holidays but it doesn't exactly go according to plan...

 

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In the 90's Lucasfilm did something very odd. They created a new Star Wars film complete with action figures, soundtrack and video game - everything except the film itself. This is the story of Shadows of the Empire.

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Meet Your Maker is a proud founding member of The Warren - Ireland's newest podcast network and home to some of the most remarkable and innovative podcasts in the country.

In this special episode we meet the creators behind The Warren's podcasts.

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Author Deirdre Sullivan on why making things is not a straight line.

 

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