Comments on: International Pixel-stained Technopeasant Day

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:20:25 +0000

Glad you enjoyed it!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:49:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. It totally entertained my house .

By: Oliver Dale

Oliver Dale — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:11:03 +0000

That was fun, MRK! You rock.

Oh and congrats on being all kewl and represented.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:04:21 +0000

It took me most of the day yesterday. I already had the toy theater framework and the scenery outside the window. I had been working on an adaptation of Boccaccio’s Decameron and hadn’t gotten much farther than the scenery before I got distracted by a paying gig. I’ve kept it around because Toy Theater just doesn’t take up a lot of space.

I recorded the audio in our bedroom, with my headset, which is why it is fairly low quality.

The hardest thing was learning how the puppets interacted with the camera. They are tiny, so any trembling was amplified by the closeups.

By: -d-

-d- — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:49:34 +0000

I’m curious about how long it took you to do the video? Did you already have the audio? I’m impressed. Of course, when you are sitting around a house with everything except the kitchen sink packed up you may have more time on your hands than the rest of us do:-) Oh, the webcam wasn’t packed up yet either.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:02:42 +0000

Thank you! I’m tickled pink.

I must say, that as a demonstration of puppetry, this is pretty lacking. It’s more like an illustrated audio chapbook. For puppetry it does waaaay too much tell and not enough show. But it was fun.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:39:40 +0000

That is most excellent! Congratulations!

Of course, none of us are surprised.

(As for your story, I’ll have to watch it later when I’m on my desktop so I can fully appreciate the puppetry. But I look forward to it.)

By: Chris Azure

Chris Azure — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:59:29 +0000

That’s awesome news. Congrats

I will have to wait till I’m home to watch your story, but I look forward to it.

By: Rick Novy

Rick Novy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:32:02 +0000

Congrats on representation.

By: Evan Nichols

Evan Nichols — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:20:28 +0000

Congratulations! As we say where I come from: You Rock!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:09:05 +0000

Yahooooo! Congrats on snaggin’ the agent!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:49:14 +0000

I watched/listened — and I’m still clapping. Brava!

Also, YAY on the agenting!

By: Minister

Minister — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:48:03 +0000

Whoa! That’s awesome! About the agent — I don’t even have time to watch the short thingy before dashing to work, but I stopped to read your blog while munching my pear before the daily dash — and I’m glad I did. Congratulations! (Of course, all of us who have read your work for a while knew this was practically inevitable.)