Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:32:37 -0500 From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] High School puppet shows No sory Geometry of Nature was retired as my collaborator moved away and we split up the puppets. I may rebuild it one day but not any time soon. On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-verizon.net> wrote: > I would think all ages would enjoy this one! =A0Would you still perform > it? I would love to contract you for the Firehouse Theatre here in > Richmond. And it gets very dark......perfect for a puppetry arts show! > Let me know, Hobey..... > > > Mary Horsley > mphorsley-AT-verizon.net > > > > On Apr 17, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Hobey Ford wrote: > >> It was a fun show to perform but as with black light shows we'd ask >> for darkeness and not always get it. =A0One time they actually were >> ready for us and as I introduced the show out front, they hit the >> lights and it was so dark it took me several minutes to find my way >> into my stage and find the lights. =A0From then on I have always carried >> a flashlight in my pocket. We had several geodesic spheres which when >> we spun would strobe off the 60 cycle black lights. =A0We also had >> something like those toy hoberman spheres, but ours was 4 ft in >> diameter and it looked like =A0a sea urchin until we threw it into the >> air and it expanded into a beautiful sphere. =A0We used Bucky Fuller's >> method of surgical tubing vertice joints. =A0He used them to join >> dowells into polyhedron to feel the dynamics of different =A0shapes. =A0I >> still use the method to gather rods on some foamies with multiple rods >> and make them easy to grab. =A0I can share the technicque if there is >> interest. =A0It invoves threading the tubing crosswise through a second >> section of tubing. Some vertice had as many a 6 ends to joint at one >> joint. =A0At any rate Teachers loved the show because it turned a rather >> dry subject like geometry into an art spectacle. >> Unfortunately wecouldn't get Highschools to bite. =A0When they did >> they loved it. >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM, =A0<puppetpro-AT-aol.com> wrote: >>> Marvelous! >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> >>> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >>> Sent: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:37 am >>> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] High School puppet shows >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Here is a picture of my eight foot wing spanned pteradactal >>> blacklight >>> rod puppet. =A0It flew like my eagle and had great movement. =A0It is an >>> attachment so will follow shortly in the next e-mail below. =A0I don't >>> have any decent video. >>> >>> >>> [ Attachment: >>> http://lists.puptcrit.org/pipermail/puptcritattach/attachments/20090417/ef12fdee/attachment.jpg >>> >>> ] >>> >>> >>> 2009/4/17 Mathieu René <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>: >>>> =A0 Hobey, do you have photos or footage of this show, that we could >>>> see? >>>> =A0 Sounds fun! >>>> >>>> =A0 _______________________________________________ >>>> =A0 List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >>>> =A0 Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit >>>> =A0 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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