Entries from July 2008

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Can’t get no Satisfaction

Well, I have opened the two shows I was working on. They are up and running, but I am not happy with them, as usual. For almost all of the shows that I design I am ultimately not happy with the final product. What I see in my head as I envision the [...]

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Late nights and fighting the dew

I’m in tech right now, listening to the show and waiting for it to end. Waiting for it to end so I can get to work on notes. Tech rehearsals are this weird time when you’re tired from working all day, and excited to see it come together. I find myself dozing off during [...]

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

New pictures are up

I have posted some new pictures from the past couple of weeks. In June we went on our annual trip to Natural bridge, during Rockbridge resident week(when we get a discounted price). We went up to Harrisonburg for their old timey ‘Courthouse days’. Fun old games and stuff. We went up to Ann’s parents [...]

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Corn starch fun

One thing I love to do with the girls is mix up corn starch and water. It is thick and goopy, and at the right mixture, it turns into a solid when force is applied. So when you scoop up some in your hand and squeeze it it turns from runny into this solid play-doh [...]

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Amazing talk from Chris Jordan

I just watched a thought provoking video via the TED Talks podcast (iTunes link- it will open up iTunes and send you to the iTunes Store to ask you if you want to subscribe to the Podcast feed).
It was by Chris Jordan, an artist who:
   
Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what [...]

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

WHere have you been?

Well, I am currently in PA in a little town that gets no cell reception and the internet only got hooked up in the 1st. I am the Artistic Director of a summer theatre school for high school students called ETC. IN addition to running the day to day I design the sets, [...]