{"id":729,"date":"2012-01-26T23:48:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T23:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2015-02-27T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T14:38:27","slug":"do-you-know-diddley-squot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/do-you-know-diddley-squot\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know Diddley Squot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed the puppets in the award winning Toadlickers video I made for Thomas Dolby, then spare a thought for Evil Puppet Master, Mike Quinn. In fact, spare him a dime, back his IndieGoGo project and make his pioneering QZimation (which combines the best of puppetry and animation) a reality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E7z-uHTnZxM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find more about Mike <a title=\"Quinnzone Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinnzonestudios.com\/\">here<\/a>, but long story short, he&#8217;s one of the best in the biz, having spent thirty years working for the likes of The Jim Henson Company, Lucas Film &amp; Pixar, on films &amp; television shows including The Muppets Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Return of The Jedi, Little Shop of Horrors, Who Framed Roger Rabbit&#8230;and, of course, The Toadlickers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30976270?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"Thomas Dolby - &amp;#039;The Toadlickers&amp;#039; (Canon 5D Mark II HDSLR)\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Related articles<\/p>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/10\/31\/the-toadlickers-wins-a-davey-award\/\">&#8216;The Toadlickers&#8217; wins a Davey Award!<\/a> (paul-d.tv)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/toadlickers-on-the-bbc\/\">Toadlickers on the BBC!<\/a> (paul-d.tv)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/paul-d-tv-on-vimeo\/\">Paul D TV on Vimeo<\/a> (paul-d.tv)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/the-muppets\/\">The Muppets<\/a> (paul-d.tv)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed the puppets in the award winning Toadlickers video I made for Thomas Dolby, then spare a thought for Evil Puppet Master, Mike Quinn. In fact, spare him a dime, back his IndieGoGo project and make his pioneering QZimation (which combines the best of puppetry and animation) a reality. You&#8217;ll find more about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/do-you-know-diddley-squot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do You Know Diddley Squot?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,318],"tags":[384,388,387,385,386,319,624,332],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filmmaking","category-muppets","tag-dark-crystal","tag-fraggle-rock","tag-jim-henson-company","tag-labyrinth","tag-little-shop-of-horrors","tag-mike-quinn","tag-thomas-dolby","tag-toadlickers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1cZYU-bL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5368,"url":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2018\/02\/25\/london-worldwide-comedy-short-film-festival\/","url_meta":{"origin":729,"position":0},"title":"London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival","author":"Paul D","date":"February 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This just in from the Director of the London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival, regarding 'The Toadlickers' music video I directed for Thomas Dolby: \u00a0\"Our judges thought your film had many admirable qualities so we have awarded it an \"Honourable Mention\".","rel":"","context":"In &quot;80s&quot;","block_context":{"text":"80s","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/category\/80s\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}