<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Valerie en rest of the list,<div><br></div><div>Yes I agree. And one of the reasons I like the possibilities of HoopWriting and SignWriting/MovementWriting, is that those images/animiations are a lot smaller to store than videos of actual people. For example the HoopWriting animation I sent you was only 46kb, way less than a video of an actual person doing that move. Storing and using websites is causing a lot of extra CO2-emissions and the smaller media is on a site the better. So with climate change going on I think your creation is only getting more relevant!</div><div><br></div><div>I'll let you know when I have done any more.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Suzanne</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:35 AM Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">SignWriting List</div><div dir="auto">March 18, 2023</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hi everyone and Suzanne -</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for this reply - HoopWriting certainly is unique and I think it is really fascinating… it is impressive how much detail there is...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">WordPress seems like a great choice, mainly because you are skilled at programming it - so I think that is a good idea. Send us the links - I can link to the WordPress files.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Recently I found out that we can create our own pages and archives on the Internet Archive (InternetArchive.org), and I am enjoying creating new places on the internet to share our materials - we continue to have our own server, but I think it is important that we also post our documents in other places on the web too - so WordPress sounds like a good opportunity -</div><div dir="auto"><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">Thanks once again, Suzanne - look forward to seeing more HoopWriting!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 17, 2023, at 8:00 AM, Suzanne Pach <<a href="mailto:suzannepach@gmail.com" target="_blank">suzannepach@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Valerie and rest of the list!<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your kind reply, Valerie. </div><div><br></div><div>I totally agree with the two points you mention for writing systems. I think standardization is important for readability. Sometimes when the system expands, changes/additions are necessary, but only when there is a good reason for it. That is why I wanted to check about the feet. I am not an expert on all kinds of movements/sports, but the very reason that I came up with the idea for HoopWriting is that it has a lot of similarities with sign language, more so than other types of movement I think. Especially for the following reasons:</div><div><ul><li>it uses specific handshapes to do the tricks and also the direction your palm faces is very important. If you use the wrong handshape or hold your hand in the wrong direction, the trick won't work. For example, there is a transition from one move to another where you circle the hoop once around your thumb and then around four fingers on a flat hand. </li><li>tricks happen on specific planes (horizontal and vertical (front, sides, and back) or move between those planes</li><li>with hoop dance people generally don't move around the space a lot (compared to say ballet or football). People mainly stay in one place, facing forwards, or sometimes turn around. Of course, people can combine hoop dance with other kinds of dance, so in that case, they might move around through the space more but in basic hoop dance not so much. However, legs are important in hoop dance: to spin the hoops around your legs for example, or kicking the hoop up. In those cases, the position of the legs and the feet is important, because otherwise, just like with hand positions, the trick might not work. So in hoop dance legs and feet are used more like a tool, similar to arms and hands, to do tricks and less to move around the space like with ballet dance or lots of sports. This is why it feels more natural for me to write the feet in a SignWriting style.</li></ul></div><div>You mention creating a space on the internet for HoopWriting. If you like it I could create a WordPress site where I post any future HoopWriting I do (and of course, you can link to it from the SignWriting/MovementWriting site)? </div><div>And because it is WordPress, if in the future there are more people interested in writing HoopWriting, I can give them admin rights to the site so they can post their own. </div><div><br></div><div>And I think just calling it HoopWriting would be enough 😅, or if it had any name attached to it it would be Sutton of course!</div><div><br></div><div>Have a nice day and kind regards,</div><div>Suzanne</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></blockquote></div></div>
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