Re: Hyperborean 6 a.m.

Monika Wunderer (wunderer@oudeis.org)
Wed, 10 Sep 1997 05:52:00 +0200 (MET DST)

On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Jim Terral wrote:

....

you cant deny that you are a writer :)
be sure that one day I ' ll stop by and see how what you described is in
reality ;)

> Yaco, Nelson will not be a mirror for this performance. Nelson will be a
> salon and I will want to be able to present them with the MOO and with
> your work and the work of the Oudeis (NoBody No Body, yeah) So I can
> dload the files right after the perf. That's the last opportunity for
> this
> particular pulse, but in any case, let's keep trying. We'll get it
> eventually. This is not leading edge. This can be done.

So do you need us in a second performance than or not? When do you need us?

And I am curious to know how you will show theater (which is supposed to
be life) in this particular case to an audience.

Will we have any possiblity to contact people in Station Manor?

>
> What kind of animation format are you using? I would like to have the
> sound track on Real Audio and am using the GIF construction set for
> animations. That is really what we need for mirroring. An .ra file.
> Forget the web page for now. Let's concentrate on
> getting these files to work among ourselves.
>
> We appreciate your willingness to do long days and late hours. I expect
> we will be doing some of that here too. I will be in Athemoo for the
> perf trying
> to get recorded material for a transcript. My log will be running and I
> hope Twyla will be able to help me to get feed from 3-4 different cams
> into a
> control unit and out to projector data objects. This is all software,
> all virtual. There are no unusual hardware requirements. Juli? Maybe
> Kristian? Quien sabe?
>
> I am hoping to be invisible for this. There will be a Jim sitting in the
> audience.
> The.Great.Patootie has got a job with the janitors. Really, they hired
> him to keep them in line. Now, he's the union secretary, very mysterious
> character. I think he has some ideas of his own.
>
> But he will just be at the performance as a puff of smoke or
> a cigarette butt or something. I understand Kristian is going to be
> there. Juli, I think it's just a rename of my character. But I don't
> want "puff of smoke teleports in," ok? Or maybe I do. I don't know.
>
> I want the person to be able to
> see that I am there, like i am on your headsup display unit. I am
> reading you and giving you data. I am there for support. This is really
> Hermes or TinkerBell. It seems to me MooMC is a metaHermes, who would
> that be? Athena, maybe. Something more than a mere Prince of Hamadryads.
>
>
> The audience cannot see me. Just the person in the control room and the
> people onstage or in the wings. MooMC, people onstage, and the cu. The
> cu sees input from the cams I think. And the operators only see me when
> I am in the room with them.
> I think most of the time I will just teleport in and you will know that
> I am there.
> and watching and not to pay any attention to me. Mainly I am there for
> emergencies--like you gotta go get another cup of coffee. I will leave
> without a ripple. That's the plan. But if you say "Hermes? I hope to get
> your page wherever I am. Concept only. Draft version, active helper
> generic.
>
> I propose to do an invocation at the beginning. Demodokus mumbles this
> part quickly before he commences. But only a fool would undertake such a
> perilous adventure as ours without inviting the gods to join us and
> indeed to tell the story.
>
> So I will definitely be there in a supporting role but none of this will
> hit Nelson till later in the evening--except for the staff of the
> Station Manor and early morning customers. Beginning of the day folk.
> Who knows? Maybe we find an audience there. I think the party after is
> the most important thing for us at Athemoo. That is how we connect. It
> is a very open and open ended form for us. Pueblo takes us out to the
> Internet and in particular to the Athemoo home page. I am not speaking
> for Juli here. I am actually describing how I see it from the Station
> Manor. The whole oudeis site is out there. Athemoo Backstage event after
> the performance in the oudeis ship means we could talk to someone in
> Hawaii or Linz or Iowa or Texas or NY. Stick around and Meet the
> Players. Juli can we
> formalize the interview process a little and show people some of the
> other spaces in Athemoo. (There is actually a washroom! Can we do a show
> in there some time, Juli? I would like to go on a tour with you some
> time, Juli. Is that part of the tutorial?)
>
> Final Reminders:
> Please keep your smoke out of the teleportation units.
> Remember, zephyrs and ghosts will take all the bandwidth they can get;
> and, finally, ghosts cannot speak unless you give them blood.
>
> Om,
> Mother Og
>
> jim
>
>

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