{"id":115,"date":"2008-09-09T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T01:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougandruth.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-02-27T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T22:51:50","slug":"talking-birds-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/talking-birds-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Birds, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have this idea:<\/p>\n
Two birds sit atop a gravestone and talk to one another with a kind of gallows humor. There’s a subtlety to this I like. If done properly the birds, ravens, should look fairly real. In telling jokes they should be able to react one another. After all, “Acting is reacting.”<\/p>\n
I guess this is really the point. The only reason to use animated figures (as opposed to human actors) is to present a figure that a person can’t accurately portray. Okay, there are other reasons like cost or repeatability, but for non-commercial use, if I could fit inside a bird suit and convince anyone I could fly, I would. Likewise I do not make a good Jack Skeleton or Great Pumpkin. Maybe the Great Pumpkin is doable.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the birds should give the spooky decorated front yard a certain feel<\/em>. Clearly the birds are not going to scare anyone. I just want them to seem a bit afraid. Maybe, in turn, passers by will also feel afraid. It’s a theory.<\/p>\n Here are some parts:<\/p>\n \n\t\t After suggesting that Ruth learn taxidermy and my specifying the height and weight of the ravens I need her to catch, she suggested the use of hand puppets. While not as realistic as I had hoped, the puppets are ideal for the purpose of being… well… puppets.<\/p>\n To that we will add:<\/p>\n Now we just need to put it all together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have this idea: Two birds sit atop a gravestone and talk to one another with a kind of gallows humor. There’s a subtlety to this I like. If done properly the birds, ravens, should look fairly real. In telling jokes they should be able to react one another. After all, “Acting is reacting.” I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,11,5,9,12,10,6,15,7,13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n