{"id":675,"date":"2009-02-04T21:49:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2009-02-06T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T01:16:00","slug":"disfarmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/02\/04\/disfarmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Disfarmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.ooyala.com\/player.js?width=400&amp;height=225&amp;embedCode=Vmb3c5Oq180jYehxOMqsTDcfxGvDKpA8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/nyc-report-1\/\">Mimi<\/a> mentioned seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/mappinternational.org\/artists\/view\/8\">Dan Hurlin<\/a>&#8216;s tabletop puppet show <em><a href=\"http:\/\/stannswarehouse.org\/current_season.php?show_id=31\">Disfarmer<\/a><\/em> when she was in NYC recently.\u00a0 It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mappinternational.org\/programs\/view\/61\">described<\/a> as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a puppet theater inspired by the life of American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959). Something of a small town &#8220;Boo Radley,&#8221; Disfarmer operated a photography studio in Heber Springs, Arkansas, where for years locals and tourists lined up to have their picture made.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/mappinternational.org\/files\/rf48add25a2a21c\/full%20press%20kit%20disfarmer.pdf\">press kit<\/a> one gets more of an idea of how Hurlin has interpreted the character, and why he chose the medium of puppetry: because both the photos and puppets are &#8216;inanimate objects whose inner lives are supplied by the insistence of the audiences imagination&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I love the detailed movement and expressions in the behind-the-scenes video above, and the way in which you very naturally accept the puppeteer&#8217;s hands as the puppet&#8217;s at times. And the way the things like the clock just appear when they are needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is a cool work-in-progress excerpt which allows you to see the puppet&#8217;s construction, to a degree:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TEWpm2g9Wzc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TEWpm2g9Wzc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimi mentioned seeing Dan Hurlin&#8216;s tabletop puppet show Disfarmer when she was in NYC recently.\u00a0 It&#8217;s described as a puppet theater inspired by the life of American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959). Something of a small town &#8220;Boo Radley,&#8221; Disfarmer operated a photography studio in Heber Springs, Arkansas, where for years locals and tourists lined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,14,33],"tags":[263,179,972,1375],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-theatre","tag-bunraku","tag-puppetry-puppets","tag-tabletop","tag-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-aT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}