Andrew Sacher

Scott Fisher gave me helpful feedback regarding "12s2Hc" last week:

1) The thesis proposal was a good format/model for future proposals/students.
2) Blog entries will be a good way to track my process, get feedback, and begin organizing thoughts for the paper.
3) Take a look at the "collective paddles" project as it may inform ideas for audience participation.
4) I may want to consider collecting guest data prior to the performance(s).
5) Be aware and flexible regarding scale and scope.

Marientina and I also met this week and had a productive discussion:

1) Keep your marketing strategy and audience in mind, as this will help inform the entire project. How one presents the idea to people is extremely important (this reminded me of EA/Maxis' finding the "X").
2) Continue to interview, observe (in public spaces), write, and evolve throughout the entire process.
3) Keep asking "what are the problems you are trying to solve?" and blogging this may help build a community.
4) This project, unlike others, should be about iterations. Practice will make this project more successful.
5) Look into documentary regarding Second City and how they build content (two guest that season were Rachel Dratch and Tina Fey).
6) Attending "comedic traffic school" may be helpful/informative.
7) Develop the personal stories of real people and situations.
8) Be the "non stop producer and insert them in your work."
9) Find someone to moderate, other than myself, and record everything.
10) Look into churches as potential venue location(s).
11) Spread the word with a URL link/business card (PSprint.com is who she uses).
12) Tell people that I'm working on an "interactive documentary" to get their input.
13) May want to get a digital voice recorder with cartridges.
14) Set a date for an initial test.
15) Check out "usability lab."
16) Organize project in 4 categories and/or phases (may overlap):
16a) Extraction (be the observer)
16b) Workshops (core entertainment elements)
16c) Healing Games (core interactive elements)
16d) Debriefing (big step back to objectively write final paper)

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Have a great Summer!

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If you remember the original Hollywood Squares and its comics, this will bring a tear to your eyes. These GREAT QUESTIONS and answers are from the days when game show responses were spontaneous and clever, not scripted and (often) dull as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course:

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.

Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.

Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes

Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.

Q. According to Cosmo, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if! he's married?
A Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.

Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
! A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I Love You"?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.

Q. What are "Do It," "I Can Help," and "I Can't Get Enough"?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.

Q Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lyn! de: Tape measures.

Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.

Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give ! birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Q. While visiting China, your tour guide starts shouting "Poo! Poo! Poo!" What does this mean?
A. George Gobel: Cattle crossing.

Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused but it certainly isn't neglected.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and Laugh

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