From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:40:55 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] DRY WALLER STILTS


Hey Michael,  Thanks for anticipating my next set of questions!

I really appreciate the safety rules and tips about stilts.
If you have any more, I'd be glad to learn them.

I hate to sound like a semi-quitter, but following Puptcritter's sharing 
about stilts,  it seems to me that, in order to be more reasonnable and 
safe, I'd need more time than just a month to get used to stilts!
Yikes! I'm not really giving up, and I might still make or get some stilts 
soon, but I guess I'll wait t'ill next year's Halloween, with plenty of 
rehearsal time.  Now to find a stilt partner to learn with.


Still, I never know how bad the halloween fever can get me somtimes. Maybe 
I'll go crazy and risk it all anyways, despite the crowds that sometimes 
contain evil elements that love to mess with bigger creatures. Two years ago 
at a Halloween party, a ridiculously uncostumed drunkard found it funny to 
hit my pumpkin head mask with his beer bottle anytime I couldn't see him. 
Too bad my baseball bat prop only looked like a real wooden one (it was 
plastic). I would have loved to have expressed my disapproval towards his 
behavior, but the crowd was too packed, I could have accidentally started an 
all-out brawl. He got tired of it after a few pumpkin glares and misfirings.

Another time, at a Cirque du Soleil private party, while I was inhabiting a 
giant Orc costume puppet, the rave part of the evening quickly turned to a 
"smash against the monsters" kind of dance. At first, it was kinda fun, some 
enticing ladies were "dirty dancing" with some of us, but we got outta there 
when we (the two smaller Orcs, each a single puppeteer) were no longer able 
to protect our Master, (maybe 15 feet tall, three puppeteers), despite our 
extra large fiberglass battle-axes (which we, of course, were forbidden to 
hit anyone with). Somehow, the non-costume puppets were never attacked, in 
any event or performance I participated in.

Come to think of it, I'll fight the Halloween urge a bit more than usual, 
considering the above mentionned memories.
LoL



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