Promotions for The Making of The Great Muppet Mural

The Great Muppet Mural is a project that sometimes feels like it’s never going to end, but I’m extremely okay with that. Let me back up a bit. Starting in January of 2021, I embarked on a truly epic journey with some very talented people whom I consider dear friends. Jamie Carroll, Kenny Durkin, Stuart Reeves, Joe Hennes, and I began planning out a huge collaborative art project for the Jim Henson/Muppet fan site ToughPigs.com. 75 artists, industry professionals, graphic designers, and frog enthusiasts put together The Great Muppet Mural for Tough Pigs 20th anniversary—a truly marvelous piece of work for a milestone anniversary. 

The first promotional post sang the praises of our host, Lucas Ross! YAAAAAAAY!!!

Halfway through that, we decided to document our work in a more extensive way, and so I began production on The Making of The Great Muppet Mural because we’re all maniacal egomaniacs. In a lot of ways, it was like continuing on just as we had been, video chatting regularly, only now with the purpose of laying out our experience with the project in an interview format. Around this time, we started including Lucas Ross in on the conversation as he would be our host and narrator. I spent months and months and months going through all those video chats and it was like I was still just hanging out with my friends and having a blast.

Promos featuring the art of Eric Scales, Laszlo Burkhardt, and Jamie Carroll

Once we entered the endgame, we were all back in touch again, setting up how and when we wanted to premiere and show the documentary. It was a lot of work but still so fun. Everybody was supportive and excited. It wasn’t until a week or two before our big premier that I realized we needed to start promoting this thing! And so, I began creating all sorts of images and videos to get the rest of the world just as hyped as we all were.

Promos featuring the art of Noah Ginex, Quentin Tracy, and Justin Piatt

I’ll go into depth even further next week about the entire process, but for now, please enjoy the promotional materials I created for The Making of The Great Muppet Mural and please be sure to watch Parts I & II already on YouTube with Part III streaming on YouTube tomorrow, Saturday, February 12!

A fun couple promotions putting faces to the art they created

I tried to really promote a nostalgic feel for the third part of the documentary.

Wayback Wednesday: When Bang & Bump went to SDCC

This morning I had an email from a friend I used to work with showing me a clip from truTV, and holy guacamole; I was on television! Sort of.

Now I'm not sure what the show actually was, but the footage was from YouTube personality Stuart Edge. Back in 2014, I went to San Diego Comic Con with my business partner and future brother–in–law Jerome Green to film an episode for our own YouTube channel: The Bang & Bump Show from our company hulgreen productions. We filmed our puppets interacting with (primarily) cosplayers and even the great Lou Ferigno as well. Now neither Jerome or I, or our friends who were helping us knew Mr. Edge at the time, but we loved his Back to the Future Marty McFly cosplay and asked if he would film a bit with us. He agreed under the condition we film a bit with his team as well. This was our finished episode (you can find his part close to the beginning at 1:37):

After he graciously was a pert of our little shtick, he filmed a card trick with my character Bump: a furry blue monster puppet built by the very talented Kevin Gorby from Lunas Puppets. That's the footage that appeared on TV that my friend saw. You can see the original video Stuart Edge posted here (Bump first appears at 0:37):

It's always cool to have someone say they saw you on TV or something like that and be a part of something fun like Stuart Edge's cool magic tricks. If anyone else saw this on truTV or knows what show it appeared on, please let me know!

As for the puppets; Jerome and I had a lot of fun performing Bang & Bump and maybe one day we will again.