From: "steve abrams" <sapuppets-AT-ucwphilly.rr.com> To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:20:42 -0500 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Negative space/Hoosier/ Completed limerick Thanks so much for the excellent limerick About 40 miles from where I live there is a nuclear power plant near a town called Limerick The power plant is called the "Limerick Generating Station" I have this image that instead of electricity, the plant is spewing out all kinds of delightfully naughty little poems. change of subject- I went to Butler University in Indianapolis for a year and half, does that mean that I am sort of a Hoosier? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klingelhoefer, Terri S" <tklingel-AT-indiana.edu> To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:36 AM Subject: [Puptcrit] Negative space/Hoosier/ Completed limerick > >What is negative space? > >>From the Wikipedia.... > "In art, generally, negative space is the space around and between the > subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the > space around a subject, and not the subject itself, forms an interesting > or artistically relevant shape, and such space is occasionally used to > artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image. The use of negative > space is a key element of artistic composition. > > In a two-tone, black-and-white image, a subject is normally depicted in > black and the space around it is left blank (white), thereby forming a > silhouette of the subject. However, reversing the tones so that the > space around the subject is printed black and the subject itself is left > blank causes the negative space to be apparent as it forms shapes around > the" subject. > > In short Hoosier translation: > Holes that look like something. > > What's a Hoosier? > There's a big debate on that, but generally anyone from Indiana. > > There once was a man in Philly, > Whose black light shop was a dilly... > He said it was a lark > To play in the dark > Where they can't tell your hand from your willy. > > Apologies to delicate sensibilities.... > > As to the gimmicky nature of the plan my background is television and > databases, so I obviously can't help myself...:). Thanks for the > response. > > Best wishes! > Terri Klingelhoefer > Primary Player > Klingel-Engle Puppets > 7251 West State Rd 46 > Ellettsville IN 47429 > tklingel-AT-indiana.edu > 812-876-3540 land line > 812-325-9326 cellThe esthetic I want to achieve is a lot of > translucent/transparent/opaque materials and use of negative space to > create these puppets. > > Someone finish this limmerick please, but this man had a black light > puppet > museum in his house, his own "puppets" that were only exhibited, never > manipulated. He invited our then company, Ta Fantastika Black Light > Theatre (we were > on tour, performing at Annenberg Center) to visit and to co-create a > show > where we would add the reflective effect to the usual Black Theatre > effect. His > place was a $35 taxi ride from downtown Philadelphia (in early 1980s > dollars) > and we laughed all the way back to Walnut Street, since adding another > gimmick > to the already gimmicky Black Light theatre seemed preposterous. That > is not > meant as critisism of your idea, only a warning of this particular > technology > artistic pitfalls. Or it just means we were not creative enought to go > beyond > the gimmick and make it into art. > > What is negative space? I haven't finished reading Einstein's lectures > on > relativity, is that where it comes from? Or is it Captain Kirk related? > > But seriously, > > Best wishes for Pagan Day & good luck with your work, > > Vit Horejs > Autistic (sic) Director > > THE CZECHOSLOVAK-AMERICAN MARIONETTE THEATRE > info-AT-czechmarionettes.org http://www.czechmarionettes.org 212-777-3891 > > > > Kacha and the Devil > Free performances at the following New York Public Library branches > December 2 -AT- 3:30pm at Donnell > December 12 -AT- 4pm at Tremont > December 21 -AT- 3:30pm at Parkchester > December 27 -AT- 2:30pm at Huguenot > For addresses and directions go to NYPL.org > January / February 2007 > > Winter Tales with Strings > Jan 15, about 2 or 3 pm, or is it one? > I have to find out when exactly > Yeshiva University Museum > at the Center for Jewish History > 15 W. 16th Street > > Once There Was a Village > An ethno opera with puppets and found objects... > about 400 years of the East Village > Music by Frank London & the Hungry March Band > Set Design by Tom Lee > Costume Design by Michelle Beshaw > Written and Directed by Vit Horejs > with: Deborah Beshaw, Michelle Beshaw, Jason Candler, V?t Horej?, Steven > > Ryan, Theresa Linnihan, Quince Marcum, Valois Mickens, Alan Barnes > Netherton, > Adelka Polak, Ronny Wasserstrom & Kat Yew > La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East 4th Street > January 25-February 11 2007 > Thursday-Sunday evenings -AT- 7:30 pm & Sunday matinee -AT- 2:30 pm > Box Office 212-475-7710, lamama.org > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > End of puptcrit Digest, Vol 26, Issue 33 > **************************************** > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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