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“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true.”
- D.H. Lawrence, was an English author, poet, playwright and essayist.
To require perfection is to invite paralysis. The pattern is predictable: as you see error in what you have done, you steer your work toward what you imagine you can do perfectly. You cling ever more tightly to what you already know you can do – away from risk and exploration, and possibly further from the work of your heart. You find reasons to procrastinate, since to not work is to not make mistakes.”
“Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are lazy, your art is lazy; when you hold back, it holds back; when you hesitate, it stands there staring, hands in its pockets. But when you commit, it comes on like blazes.
—Currently reading Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Though it has not mentioned improv or acting once, it may be the best book about improv I’ve read. (via lunchbreak)
One week show from nothing
Think about props. Can’t afford props. Cut props.
Replace all props with string and bulldog clips. We can afford this.
Different characters? Can’t afford costumes. We’ll just have hats.
Later - cut hats. Doesn’t match no props.
Will not budge on TRICYCLE. BUBBLE MACHINE.
Everything else mutable.
Script? No. Can’t afford it. Improvised show.
Build structure from science.Don’t need props. Physical Comedy. (play to my strengths)
Bastard child of Paintbox and science experiments.
Helen builds hilarious stick beyond specifications (May have blown budget)
Many things don’t work. 2 hours in space to fix.
Show opens tomorrow. Media etc.
Spent three hours doing audio design.
Can’t find blank CD’s in my pile of destroyed belongings.
A bit disheartened.
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valkyriebones-main asked: Hey, definitely keen to do some workshops. What's the audience? I can teach hoop, and do two different hoop workshops because otherwise all my other dance-related talents mostly include fire or fans which I only have one pair of. But I can do beginner hoop dance, and possibly an isolation workshop. But I am definitely keen to do at least one! Thanks (:
- Natasha.
Contact my friend Dan
raspberrysponge@hotmail.com
Tell him what you can do. ask him any questions
cheers
Dan
Stanely Donwood on 'The King of Limbs'
On March 28th and 29th 2011, thousands and thousands of copies of a publication entitled The Universal Sighwere handed out in many major cities around the world. Many people might now be wondering why this happened.
The newspaper thing began some months previously, in the summer. I’d left a newspaper on a bench in the sun, and when I returned to get it a few hours later it had already begun its inevitable decay; the paper had rippled slightly, the whiteness was yellowing, and it was feeling more brittle and delicate than it had before. I thought that this constituted a wonderful medium.
There’s nothing archival about a newspaper. It doesn’t pretend to be definitive; just because a newspaper comes out we don’t expect news to stop, or sport to finish. A newspaper is just a simple statement, an account of how things were at the time of writing. Newspapers aren’t even preserved. The vast bulk of them are recycled and turned into more newspapers.
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The newspaper can of course be seen as a relic of the past, a dying format that has no place in the modern world where digital content interfaces seamlessly with an ever burgeoning plethora of shiny devices; portable tablet computers and e-readers, laptops, netbooks and smartphones.
But it is also a tactile pleasure, a finger-inking, page-flapping, paper rustling codex of information that won’t crash or corrupt. It won’t become useless without electricity. It won’t end up on the shores of somewhere far away, its innards picked at by underpaid children. But it will, with time, slowly crinkle, yellow, fade and crumble; much as we will.
~Stanley Donwood
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All I can offer the rebuild of Christchurch are my ideas
Please spread the word. This may be the most positive thing I ever made.
real life.
