File puptcrit/puptcrit.0904, message 252


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
>>>
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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!
>>>>
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