Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 21:02:28 -0400
From: Steve Abrams <sapuppets-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] (no subject)


Hi Bruce
I remember the huge puppet that you and Susan built of Andrew Carnegie.
We met out there the week that Burr Tillstrom passed away and we toasted his
memory.
The Children's Museum does indeed have a fine collection.
Nancy Staub was involved at that time, and I think they have a figure from
one of the Henson films
I still get to Pittsburgh about once a year, and I will be  heading out
there next week. If I have time to stop in the museum, I will take a look
and report back.
Margo Lovelace is 88. I spoke to her a few months ago. Some of her work is
on youtube.

For awhile  the puppets had been put in storage,but then the museum expanded
quite a bit. After they expanded the puppets where once again on exhibit.
(or at least some of them).  The last time I was at the museum  was oh maybe
2 or 3 years ago.
There were puppets in various parts of the museum. One scetion had a truly
excellent and innovative way of exhibiting about 15  of their puppets.

Digital photos were taken of the puppets. At Carnegie Mellon's
"Entertainment Technology Center" they created a program where the digital
image of the puppet could be animated.

The museum visitor could see the actual puppet exhibited in a case
and then right next to the case was a video screen. On the screen the
digital virtual image of the puppet appeared.  Standing at a computer
station with a joystick, the museum visitor could see the puppet and the
screen and work the joystick and make the virtual puppet, wave, jump, and
turn.
It was a very clever way of showing that a puppet can and should move,
without actually touching and manipulating a fragile  antique puppet.

Steve





On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Bruce K. Chesse <brucec-AT-chesseartsltd.com>wrote:

> Dear puppet critters,
>
> i just got some PR on the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. Lots of stuff
> on Mr. Rogers but what happened to the puppet museum and all of Margo
> Lovelace's fantastic collection. Susan Barthel inaugurated that
> exhibit and trained the Docent. I even found a 1939 puppet of my
> fathers and Lovelace's exhibit was a major exhibit. I notice that the
> theater in which we produced four puppet productions has become a
> live Theater Space with no mention of puppet shows. So much for
> puppets. Anybody in Pittsburgh know what is happening there?  Steve
> Abrams what do you know about it.
>
> Bruce
>
> Bruce K. Chesse
> brucec-AT-chesseartsltd.com
> http://chesseartsltd.com
> http://chessearts.blogspot.com
> bkc.arts.puppetry-AT-gmail.com
>
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