From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-verizon.net>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:38:07 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Is "Avatar" a puppet show?


Now, that is a picture I am can grab onto! And as much as my students  
love cars, so could they.......hmmm, just gave me some new ideas!

Mary
On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:03 AM, Vladimir Vasyagin wrote:

>
> Hi, Alan.I would say just one - by following your idea my car is my  
> puppet. It's operating by my hands and feet. It's acting in the  
> street. With participation from other drivers it is a small show  
> every time we go out. Some times my car even can talk with my voice  
> through the open window...Sorry it's time to go to work. I need to  
> warm up my puppet.See you
>
> Vladimir
>
>
>
>> From: alangregorycook-AT-msn.com
>> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
>> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:10:25 +0000
>> Subject: [Puptcrit] Is "Avatar" a puppet show?
>>
>> Puppet animation is not limited to the hand as the source of  
>> movement. I think of Hugo & Inez as alternate puppetry.
>>
>> Japanese wheel puppets (one-puppeteer bunraku) move their heads  
>> when the puppeteer moves his or her head There is a circle of wire  
>> or wood or ??? with strings attached roughly from the puppet's two  
>> ears to the puppeteer's ear area. A similar mechanism is known in  
>> India's marionette traditions.
>>
>> I have seen foot puppets from Asia & the USA.
>>
>> Animatronic puppets had to be programmed by a person using a  
>> joystick or comparable equipment. The movement begins in the  
>> puppeteer's brain. The puppeteer has to discover what the animated  
>> figure can & cannot do well. If the illusion of life is the result  
>> of a puppeteer's animation skills, then the virtual or actual  
>> figure is a puppet. If you need a distinction, call the AVATAR  
>> figures VIRTUAL PUPPETS.
>>
>> Stop motion puppets do not perform before an audience, but they are  
>> intended for a delayed audience. If no-one hears that philosophical  
>> tree falling in the woods, how do we know it is falling...well  
>> birds & squirrels can witness the falling tree on our behalf.
>>
>> One thing this current discussion pinpoints is the strong  
>> connection between puppets and various forms of film animation.  
>> Movie cartoonist/animator Chuck Jones worked with the Yale  
>> Puppeteers on Olvera Street in the 1930s and felt that experience  
>> was beneficial to his movie cartoons (hand drawn).
>>
>>
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