From: "Puppet People" <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:41:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Preparing a production After 14 years...no problems! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Hudert" <heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Preparing a production > > On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Puppet People wrote: > >> Trunks with wheels or even garbage cans with wheels are great for >> storing puppets: if possible try to wrap your scenery >> and props, laundry bags work great. > > Yikes! Garbage cans with wheels? Mark, perhaps you have not had a > problem with this (yet), but there are many horror stories out there of > people who had puppets/material/whatever stored in garbage bags which > ended accidentally up going the way of garbage. Sometimes > irretrievably. I would encourage everyone to avoid using garbage bags > or garbage cans for anything but what they were meant for: garbage. > (Wait for apparent contradiction below.) > > I, personally, would shy away from trunks with wheels, preferring the > ones without wheels instead - be they the footlocker kind (getting > cheesier in construction every year it seems) or the Rubbermaid type - > and a dolly or hand truck. IMHO, and experience, the wheelless ones > stack better and last longer than the wheeled type. There is also > slightly more room inside as the wheels do intrude slightly on the > interior space. I do, on a few rare occasions, use some wheeled trunks, > but that is typically for shows that are pretty small and will only > take one or maybe two trunks including tech equipment. Wheeled stuff > tends to slide around more than desired in the back of my van. My hand > truck which converts into a dolly has gotten a lot of mileage and > transports in the van on top of trunks, etc., with its wheels up so > doesn't roll around back there much. > > Mark, if the wheeled garbage cans work for you, great. I sincerely hope > you never have a problem (I wouldn't wish that on anybody!). I can see > where some larger puppets would fit and transport well in rolling cans. > I suspect the cans are well marked that they are Puppet People Property > (and not trash). If it were me, I'd see that they began to look like > transport bins rather than trash bins, but maybe that's just me. > > Christopher > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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