Probably time to just start saying "Photos."
Sunday, April 07, 2019
Thursday, April 04, 2019
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I don't mean to be crass about it, but what the hell happened to March? I swear it was valentines day like a week and a half ago... The Frosh tell me the project cannot be completed without all-nighters. I decided not to argue... All this defense of Biden in the media makes me really wistful for Al Franken... Work in the basement at the house is into phase two I guess. Materials arrived yesterday. I should be shooting more pictures... The Scoobis are back on the streets. Totally unlike the swallows returning to Capistrano... I finished Westworld season two. This season made me think a lot about Dollhouse. The after credit scene on the season finale really knocked me off balance. Just when you think you know what's going on... The folks at MSNBC should know that I have basically stopped watching. I guess in general their ratings are up, but I just don't have what it takes anymore... I never get tired of hearing I'm not sick... We're moving pieces around to make sure we get to see Captain Marvel in a theatre before Endgame. This, I think, is caring too much. Thanks Marvel... I really prefer an RSS Feed to an email newsletter. I think I am probably in the minority there, but I also think I am doing it right... Posting regularly should be easier than this... I predict we are all going to learn quite a bit about the difference between an independent counsel and a special council. Comparisons to the Starr Report aren't necessarily parallel... Spring Carnival is coming. The boy is excited. That's as it should be...
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Worth a Look
Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
‘Midnight Rider’ Case: First AD Hillary Schwartz Denied Shortened Sentence
Deadline: Like Midnight Rider’s director before her, the film’s first assistant director Hillary Schwartz asked for and was denied leniency by a Georgia court for her part in the death of her 27 year-old crew member Sarah Jones. Schwartz had motioned the court for a shortened sentence last year asking that her probation end. She was sentenced to 10 years probation in March 2015 for criminal trespass and felony involuntary manslaughter for her role in the camera assistant’s death.
Consent in the Spotlight
The New Journal: Center stage at the Iseman Theater, a woman stands clutching two hands to her chest in front of seventy-five first-year students of the Yale School of Drama. “These are my breasts,” she says. “These are Evan’s breasts, and when I come to rehearsal, I don’t want you to touch them.”
The Color Purple; who gets to play gay?
Exeunt Magazine: “Nobody who has talent should be kept out of the acting profession. And nobody, even white, middle-class males, should be prevented from playing any part,” said Simon Callow, commenting in a Guardian piece last week which, slightly insidiously, painted a picture of a world in which increasingly strong calls for diversity in casting were limiting some actors’ careers.
Cirque, MGM Resorts Downsize; Shuffle Staff
www.cirquefascination.com: Cirque du Soleil is performing some acrobatics away from the theater.
The days are over when Cirque shows have been operated as insular productions, independent of one another. The company is reorganizing — and downsizing — its management operations for its five residency productions on the Las Vegas Strip that are in partnership with MGM Resorts International (“Mystere” at Treasure Island being the exception). Cirque also has a show coming into Luxor to be announced this spring.
Rise TV Period Dramas Creates Bigger Need for History Consultants
Variety: Ask production designer Maria Djurkovic how she researched period-accurate sets for the late 1970s-set espionage miniseries “The Little Drummer Girl,” which airs on AMC, and she answers: books, the internet, some personal experience. But then she brings up her secret weapon: Philip Clark.
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Thursday, March 28, 2019
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I can't be certain, but I am pretty sure that the new EU Copyright provisions make one of my other pages a fairly likely infringer... Week after week of PT and we're really not getting anywhere. I did find free parking at the facility... I really can't get over how much there is that I am no longer willing to put into a post... When I played ultimate in college our jerseys were not nearly as cool as the ones the current team has... I'm catching up with Westworld two episodes at a time. Some of those episodes are a little bit longer than I would have anticipated... The front lawn is a field of clover. So much for last year's lawn care vendor... I am anticipating a fairly high number of credit ultimate games this spring. I hope I am up to it... There was another Green Scenery panel at the conference this year. The advice: build less, use more stock, throw away nothing. That song is getting old... Phase two of the basement update is underway. There's a new furnace and all new duct work. Somehow I think "new duct work" isn't a highly sought after item in renovation projects... I can't be sure, but I think I may have found a home for some of the LPs that moved here from Chicago... Days that start out below 30 and then rise to over 60 provide a challenging toddler clothing selection process... Lego has this ball & socket joint pair of pieces that I think is a fairly good analog for general problems with ball & socket joints... Haven't seen Captain Marvel. Should probably get on that before Endgame comes out...
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Worth a Look
Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
It’s time to start caring about “VR cinema,” and SXSW’s stunners are proof
Ars Technica: You may love, hate, or shrug at the idea of virtual reality, but one niche is still unequivocally devoted to the format: film festivals. The reasons aren't all great. Because VR usually requires one-at-a-time kiosks, it invites long lines (which film festivals love for photo-op reasons). These films also favor brief, 10-15 minute presentations, which are the bread-and-butter of the indie filmmaking world. And the concept reeks of exclusivity—of the sense that, if you wanna see experimental VR fare, you need to get to Sundance, Cannes, or SXSW to strap in and trip out.
Corporations Are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair
WIRED: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." As an advocate, organizer, and campaigner for preschool access, tax fairness, plastic pollution and other causes for the last 14 years, I’ve heard this saying many times. You tell it to your volunteers when it looks like your movement has hit a wall or when it looks like your opposition has the upper hand, and you want to show your teammates that many people have faced obstacles before, and overcome them.
The Art of Designing Black Hair for the Stage
Theatre Development Fund – TDF: Looking at Cookie Jordan's extensive New York City stage credits, it seems like she's the go-to hair and wig designer for productions with predominantly black casts. After all, her résumé includes Eclipsed, Once on This Island, Choir Boy, An Octoroon, Fairview, Sugar in Our Wounds and School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which earned her a Drama Desk Award nomination. But Jordan will not be pigeonholed. "I did Sunday in the Park with George, too," she says. "Of course I can do Caucasian hair -- my training is in opera!"
Eliza Dushku slams NDA from CBS' $9.5M payout after claims of harassment
www.usatoday.com/story/life: Eliza Dushku is still upset about the sexual comments "Bull" star Michael Weatherly made about her on the set of the CBS legal drama and the culture that allowed it to happen. In a new interview with Time, the actress, 38, says the non-disclosure agreement she signed as part of her $9.5 million settlement means she has to "talk in code" when she wants to discuss the situation.
The Development Of Israeli Theater–A Brief Overview
The Theatre Times: In comparison with West European theater, Hebrew theater is young: only a century separates the Moscow première of the first professional Hebrew production on October 8th, 1918, and any of over 50 current theater events that can be attended nightly in Tel Aviv, Israel’s theater capital. The almost total lack of theater traditions in Judaism, other than the inherent theatricality in religious services, until the turn of the 20th century and the ensuing quantitative as well as qualitative proliferation of shows, demonstrates a strong link between Israeli reality and universal theatricality.
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Worth a Look
Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Arts Sector Contributed $763.6 Billion to U.S. Economy—More Than Agriculture or Transportation
Artsy: The arts and cultural sector contributed over $763.6 billion to the American economy in 2015—more than the agriculture, transportation, or warehousing sectors, according to new U.S. government data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Richard Burbage: Shakespeare's leading man and the reason Hamlet was fat
theconversation.com: It’s 400 years since the death of Richard Burbage, the first person to play the roles of Hamlet, Lear, Othello and Macbeth in the original version of the Globe in London. As far as Shakespeare was concerned, Burbage was both a blessing and a curse. He was a good actor, and he seems to have been a particular draw for female audience members – an anecdote by the contemporary diarist John Manningham tells of a citizen’s wife who was so smitten after seeing Burbage play Richard III that she sent a note backstage to make an assignation, only for it to be intercepted by Shakespeare, who went off to the rendezvous himself with the remark that “William the Conqueror was before Richard the Third”.
Artists Temporarily Drop ‘Fortnite’ Lawsuits For Copyright Snag
Variety: With a recent US Supreme Court ruling that plaintiffs suing for copyright infringement must have their work registered with the US Copyright Office, several artists have put their lawsuits against Epic Games “Fortnite” dances on hold, according to a report from Law360 via law firm Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hect.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Faces New Litigation After Regional Shut Downs
www.broadwayworld.com: BroadwayWorld previously reported cancellations of a number of productions of the Christopher Sergel stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, licensed by Dramatic Publishing, in the UK, Dayton OH, and Buffalo, amongst others across the US. According to the New York Times, president of Dramatic Publishing Company Christopher Sergel III, who also happens to be the grandson of the original adaptation's author, says he will be suing for damages.
The Revolution is Here and Now
HowlRound Theatre Commons: We’re at a critical point in the history of Roma movements in Europe. Day after day, we receive news of pogroms, killings, shootings, beatings, family separations, school segregations, rapes, and homophobic violence against our people all across the continent. The response from some Roma artists and writers is anger.
Friday, March 15, 2019
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
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The idea that there could be planes crashing not due to pilot error or even over some mechanical problem but rather over a software problem is really, really scary... I don't understand why at the doctor's office they bring you back to an exam room when they really aren't ready for you, so you wind up waiting, alone, in a tiny room. The room you were in is literally called a "waiting room." Seems like they know what it is for... I am beginning to think that I can make myself agitated enough to actually make myself ill. I would not have thought that would be possible... This week is Spring Break. I have now been to work three days in a row and am going in tomorrow. I think I am doing Spring Break incorrectly... Next week is USITT. I will be at the conference. You should look me up if you go... The multiple layers of fraud in this college admissions scandal is really disturbing. It is even more disturbing to think about how vulnerable the system is to this type of manipulation... The Friday Photos posts depend on me taking photos over the week. Sometimes I forget... If you have an app, and that app shows a schedule, you ought to adhere to that schedule, and if you can't do that then you are probably better off not showing the information... Season 7 of DS9 is really good, but there are also more episodes than I remember that are off the main road plotwise... The other day I participated in a kind of "Yes, this is really a job" presentation for bunch of 8th graders. There was among the group exactly one person that seemed genuinely interested. She, of course, was interested in performance... I drove a truck today. I want to say it was like the fourth time (not counting pick up trucks). "Don't let them know you can drive the truck" is one of my standard pieces of professional advice... Apparently "amongst," although a word, is less favored than "among." And now you know...
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