10 thoughts on “Tyger

  1. Especially, after seeing the Tyger video, read the About page. I think the apparent chaos of how that video was made will (with hope) give you an idea of how not knowing where you’re going is OK (with hope). Jeez, I think I was channeling Marc on that last sentence.

  2. Dale intends, I think, to inspire us. My response to his links, usually, is a feeling of oppression. This is because I lack a generosity of spirit–I selfishly have to make everything reflect *my* sense of confinement. So my interpretation is always along the lines of: there’s creativity bubbling away out there, and here I sit on my hands. Every link is an indictment.

    Having said that (as if I’m hoping rescue can come from somewhere other than within), I acknowledge it as a beautiful piece of work. An interesting illustration of an interpretation, with enough ambivalence to lend itself to repeated viewings. And a Tyger could be puppeted in no other way, it seems. It’s a very definitive gesture.

    I am still enough of a piece of decadent bourgeosie fallout to find the interpretation alarmingly social, lacking Blake’s attending imaginative esotericism (one which is not simply summed up in the idea of “back to nature”). And yet the viseral progress of the Tyger inspires a whole network of associations. The movement and the image work their own magic apart from the invocations of the word.

    The frustration comes with embracing a process which relies on the power of collective creation.

  3. I don’t know what you mean by “inspire.” I intend to share, to show ideas, to alert us all to possibilities, to put stuff into our box that we can pull out later and play with or steal from.

    Helpful hint: resist “interpretation.” Tyger is just a pretty thing for us to see and to wonder at. It is an addition to our vocabulary. It is proof that what we are about to do with William Blake is possible. We don’t have to assign meaning to the Tyger. And we certainly don’t want to get in the habit of stopping to assign meaning to that which we are producing. That would slow us down, ne-c’est pas?

  4. A couple of thoughts on the postings here:

    1. The tyger thing was exceptionally cool. I had an instinctive negative reaction to the word “puppet” when it came up in the meeting several Thursdays ago. At it’s use, I immediately saw visions of the puppet scene from The Sound of Music. (Yes, Dale, I know the technical word is something else, but I can’t spell mario*) What the video did for me was to show me that first of all, “puppets” don’t have to be Elmo and can actually be pretty cool, and second of all, that you can still “act” in using a puppet.

    2. On the soccer field thing, DANG.

  5. The style of puppetry utilized is the Japanese Bunraku.

    I agree with resisting interpretation, especially since my impulse to put notions into words is somewhat stultifying; verbage blots up the good juices.

    Let’s play with the magic of the gesture, the magic of the impulse. Here, here.

    (I’m experimenting with something…..There…I like helping to fashion those unscriptable moments. I’m trying to figure out a way to get those moments out there to share.)

    I encourage us all, in accordance, I hope, with Dale’s evil plan, to push the boundaries of our opportunities for cyber play, our streaming, our posting, till we reach that dizzy point we strive for.. Until we can work in the flesh.

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