This one’s for hard core David Bowie fans only: I stumbled upon a mention of a video produced for the single “The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell” from the ‘Hours…’ album. It featured a full-size Ziggy Stardust puppet, the website being that of puppeteer Rick Lyon (Avenue Q, Sesame Street, etc). The video, by Oil Factory‘s Dom and Nic, was apparently never released, though the mvdbase.com listing claims it was. In the Teenage Wildlife forums there’s a snippet of a chat transcript where Bowie says the puppets ended up looking like puppets and not achieving the dark look Dom and Nic were going for. Another posting has what appears to be stills from the same video shoot with an “Ashes to Ashes” Bowie puppet. I can imagine the video, if it isn’t out there already (yeah, I searched online of course), will show up on a compilation sometime, but the more interesting question is: where are those Bowie puppets now? And how many were there?