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>
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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
>
>
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