Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:50:20 -1000
From: "Nikole Horkin" <nikole.horkin-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] 20th Unima Congress and World Puppetry Festival


Hi, my name is Nikole and I just signed up to this email list.  I'm really
excited to read all that is going on.  I also got the UNIMA website this
morning.  I have been waiting so long for this email.  I ended up already
booking my flight and hotel for the event in April.  I didn't want to miss
out on the good deals that are available right now.  So, who else is going?
I thought that I would be able to bring my family but alas it is too
expensive coming from Hawaii.  I'm excited to meet other like minded puppet
people!  I can't wait to see what workshops will be available.  Guess we all
have to wait until October....ugh...hehe.

Anyways...Aloooooooooooooooooooha!
Nikole


On 9/3/07, Kismet <kismet-AT-bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Yes, I like the website....unusual but workable.... Thanks for the heads
> up...so much to see, so much to do.
> Its a loooooong way to Australia so the show may of been chosen because of
> freight logistics...and the number of people to fly out and accomodate The
> foam puppets are probable made the same way as we make some of
> ours.......a
> single cast rather than carved from a mould using a foaming urethane like
> FF110 (the non self - skinning type) You can block cast them then carve in
> unique features or make a unique mold for each character...we usually skin
> our workshop puppets with latex to strengthen and protect them but I love
> the way foam takes the tones from an airbrush.
> Ive just been commissioned to make my first life size puppet/Body Mask out
> of water clear urethane for a dance company...they want it to be invisible
> in a perspex tank of water then side light it so that it is revealed then
> the dancers will remove it and manipulate it. The test models worked
> fantastic but the stuff is scary to work with...your processes have to be
> perfect...any one have a 1.2 metre by 500 x 500mme vaccum chamber I can
> borrow?
>
> D.
>
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