From: "themanbehindthecurtain" <themanbehindthecurtain@visionary.net>

To: <xocxoc@att.net>

Subject: Surfacing

Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:25 AM

 

Dear Players:

 

Now our play is ended.  We have drawn aside the curtain, and let it drop for good.

 

But we wanted to write one more time, to say again what a profound pleasure and extraordinary privilege it has been to work with you.

 

We had a magical team to put this thing together.  How lucky we were to find a team every bit as magical on the other side of the curtain!  Your passion and energy and intelligence has kept us going through more dire emergencies and long nights than you can imagine. We always thought a community could form around this project, but never dared to hope for an audience so engaged and so resourceful.  You demanded that we experiment, and were generous enough to stick with us when some of those experiments didn't work out quite as we had hoped.

 

You made us work really hard.   Which was only fair.

 

The best audience an artist can hope for is one that forgives error but never cynicism; that demands your best work and then appreciates it; that contributes energy and ideas to create something better than you could have ever made on your own.  At this moment, we believe we have been blessed with the best, smartest, most passionate audience imaginable.

 

If you have any questions not covered by the FAQ (coming soon!), or just want to hang out and chat, we will have an electronic get-together at 9 pm EST/ 6 pm PST on Tuesday, July 31. (..\emails\chatlog.htm)

 

We think that all of us, puppetmasters and players alike, have been given a chance to be part of a truly original and groundbreaking experiment.  There will be other projects that attempt to use the web as a distinctive artistic medium, ones with bigger budgets and larger audiences:  but we here were first.

 

Once again, our profound thanks.  It was dazzling, wasn't it?

 

 

The PMs

 

Credits (credits\index.html)