[Sw-l] Another HoopWriting attempt...

[Suzanne Pach]

Hi Valerie en rest of the list,

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!

I'll let you know when I have done any more.

Kind regards,
Suzanne

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:35 AM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
wrote:

> SignWriting List
> March 18, 2023
>
> Hi everyone and Suzanne -
>
> Thank you for this reply - HoopWriting certainly is unique and I think it
> is really fascinating… it is impressive how much detail there is...
>
> 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.
>
> 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 -
>
> Thanks once again, Suzanne - look forward to seeing more HoopWriting!
>
>
> Val ;-)
>
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> On Mar 17, 2023, at 8:00 AM, Suzanne Pach <suzannepach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Valerie and rest of the list!
>
> Thanks for your kind reply, Valerie.
>
> 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:
>
>    - 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.
>    - tricks happen on specific planes (horizontal and vertical (front,
>    sides, and back) or move between those planes
>    - 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.
>
> 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)?
> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> Have a nice day and kind regards,
> Suzanne
>
>

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