{"id":482,"date":"2008-04-22T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T04:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2008\/04\/22\/a-tiger-by-the-tail\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T23:13:11","slug":"a-tiger-by-the-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2008\/04\/22\/a-tiger-by-the-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"A tiger by the tail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cUyemmGWNVk&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cUyemmGWNVk&amp;hl=en\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(My favourite so far: Steve Gillmor)<\/p>\n<p>Despite my own mixed feelings, I&#8217;m expecting Loren Feldman&#8217;s Shel Israel parody to become the hottest puppet video show around while it lasts. Feldman has caused  mischief and grief by taking the piss, and nicking the real Shel&#8217;s domain. You can read about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/04\/08\/puppet-parody-show-gets-sponsorship-original-fastcompany-show-doesnt\/\">Techcrunch<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5gb6k6\">Karoli&#8217;s Bang the Drum<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1938media.com\/fast-company-falls-for-it\/\">here<\/a> Feldman explains his initial impetus.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s funny. As Steve Gillmor says in <a href=\"http:\/\/gillmorgang.techcrunch.com\/2008\/04\/03\/newsgang-live-040208\/\">NewsGang Live (04.02.08, about the 45 -55 min mark)<\/a>, it&#8217;s the kind of thing you feel guilty about laughing at, but you can&#8217;t stop yourself.  <del datetime=\"2009-06-04T23:09:15+00:00\">At first I was nitpicking the lip syncing,  but<\/del> Feldman <del datetime=\"2009-06-04T23:09:15+00:00\">is a quick study, and <\/del>seems a natural for what works dramatically. (Update May 09 : not quick enough &#8211; he still can&#8217;t lip sync.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s so funny if you don&#8217;t follow the tech scene, but it&#8217;s interesting to see such a connection drawn between the tech world and the online puppetry world. There are precious few of us that follow both.   I am intrigued to see who is willing to be interviewed, their differing comfort levels, and of course the power that resides in the way a puppet can ask questions and go places that a real interviewer can&#8217;t. The tech world seems to take itself fairly seriously much of the time, and I think Feldman may have a tiger by the tail with his entertaining and cutting take (though I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s also going to be unkind and is already feeding into personality feuds). No wonder he is buying more puppets today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(My favourite so far: Steve Gillmor) Despite my own mixed feelings, I&#8217;m expecting Loren Feldman&#8217;s Shel Israel parody to become the hottest puppet video show around while it lasts. Feldman has caused mischief and grief by taking the piss, and nicking the real Shel&#8217;s domain. You can read about it at Techcrunch or Karoli&#8217;s Bang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14,17],"tags":[1386,1355,1365,882,883,1368],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-video","tag-puppet","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-shel-israel","tag-steve-gillmore","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-7M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}