Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:49:16 +0100
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Giant Puppets


This is a bit of a "thread from the dead" moment I'm afraid. I've  
been super busy over the past month but I still have things to say  
about giant puppets... For now I'll attempt to re-vivify the  
discussion with "new" content. Nobody's claiming this is puppetry but  
the implications are clear:

http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/october/helicopter-boyz

It fulfills John Bell's somewhat parsimonious demand for self- 
supporting giants ("I think self-supporting giant puppets are far  
more interesting [than monumental marionettes] and have many more  
possibilities for performance"). To be classed as "self-supporting"  
we would perhaps have to discount the cables and computer operators.  
But I imagine these are project-specific/discretionary, and the  
camera comes with its own remote control.

Though not necessarily new (perish the very idea), the video  
demonstrates a portable and easily implemented technique of  
projecting and amplifying movement on to a screen or other object.  
OK, so the technology's still not cheap (or particularly powerful),  
but it's elegant (and, after all, not prohibitively expensive).  
=A35,000 should get me a dozen cameras and a 5 metre projection screen,  
I'll speak to the Arts Council this afternoon...



Simon Palmer
Illustrated History
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