Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:11:19 -0400
From: "David A. Syrotiak" <nmt-AT-sover.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Digital Age for Puppeteers




"Dori Smith ( Pig's Eye )" wrote:

> Hi, Jim and others:
>
> >       4.  We should have several (really well thought out) workshops at the
> >Festivals on this subject, and not just someone with his/her small laptop
> >showing how to cut and paste music....well, maybe that too for the
> >beginner....but more challenging, up-to-date subjects: compression formats,
> >cross platform applications, decompression, digital photography, resolutions,
> >printing. digital "cleaning" of LPs, formats, PDF files, etc., etc.  We
> >should at the very least, talk about items that can help puppeteers, e.g.,
> >take a digital photo of a puppet, convert it to a line drawing, and make it
> >into a poster or logo!
>
> I don't like to think of festival time being taken up with what amounts
> to computer classes, which are given at community colleges and many other
> places in our own communities if we are interested in taking them.

But there might be others who would.  That's what a festival is all about, hu?

> Yet more
> terrible is the idea of sitting down to lunch at a puppetry festival and
> having the conversation turn to compression formats.

Better then being subjected to weird types wandering around and putting a puppet
in your face when you have a fork lifted and about to take a mouth full of food.

> Yes, compression
> formats are fascinating but you can easily learn about them anywhere! You'
> don't have to travel across country to a _puppetry_ festival to get this
> stuff.
>
> For those who are not aware of the advantage of using computers, the internet,
> and so on perhaps give one introductory class called "Five Ways Computers Can
> Help Puppeteers".. give a guided tour of the technology and let them
> pursue this learning back home (as they will have to do anyway, right, if
> they get into computers?)

First you say "no computer stuff" and now you say "Five Ways Computers Can Help
Puppeteers".  Which way are you waffling, Dori?  See, there IS a space during
festival time to show the various uses of a computer for puppeteers.  Obviously
you are familiar with computers and what they can do for you/your business but
there are a lot of beginning puppeteers out there who are not.  And there is
always the possibility that someone else has hit on a terrific idea that no one
else has thought of.

Any other thoughts from anyone else in cyberspace about having a workshop using
computers to help in business or design at a puppet festival?

David (the elder)



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