File puptcrit/puptcrit.0903, message 428


From: "Puppet People" <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:32:23 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] THE GENERALIST VS THE SPECIALIST


It often comes down to financial necessity. I would love to hire experts for 
everything...but it is not in my means to do so. Necessity is the mother of 
invention!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:18 PM
Subject: [Puptcrit] THE GENERALIST VS THE SPECIALIST


> Speaking of traditional puppetry, there is a lot of the handyman involved, 
> but even there, a puppeteer might pay a carver for wood puppets. In 1965 I 
> met an Italian doing Pulcinella shows who would not think of carving his 
> own figures.
>
> A handyman does the jobs a handyman can do. But there are times we all 
> need expert help. Even in folk traditions.
>
> Alan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Hennes
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:44 AM
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Copyright question
>
>>Forgive me, but if there's one thing that's wrong with the western
>>puppetry community it's the insistence that a puppeteer can do it all.
>>It takes training to write in the same way that it takes training to
>>build a puppet.  Yes, there are some folks who can write, direct, act,
>>design and build but those are the exceptions.
>
> Mary on the whole I would agree with you, however it has been my 
> experience
> that most puppeteers are Jack or Jill's of all trades.  They almost have 
> to
> become that way or do they?  I would extend your point to say, how many us
> fix our own home repairs?  How many us build a web site with out hiring a
> professional web person to do so?  How many create they own animations and
> graphics? How many change their own flat tire, with out hiring a tow truck
> driver? And so on.  Ok, and here is the big one, how many think that
> knowledge should be free?  I would dare say these are not just Western
> thoughts.  I think they are human.  I would ask that each one of to 
> reflect
> on one point. Do we horde our needs?  Or do we reach out an support each
> other and the community by trading in skills or monetary value?  I think 
> we
> have become our own survivalist as if we where living on the frontier.  We
> say, "I must do it all myself."  Instead of saying, "I need the help of
> others."
>
>
> Just some rambling thoughts,
>
> William
>
>
>
>
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