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 Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics — like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
You can view the individual talk here
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, the posters and am writing a bit for our children’s show. The work days begin at 8am and run until midnight every day. I am really enjoying it, but need more time to break away during the work day to spend time with my family.
More later when I get a chance.
The school year is over. It has been very busy, in addition to the productions I have had a lot of meetings and committee work to do. And things will only get busier once next year starts since I will be the new Head of the Department. It is something I am looking forward to. I know it will be very time consuming but the challenge will be good.
In other news, Arden and McKelvey had their dance recital last weekend. From a totally unbiased perspective, it was the most precious thing ever! They performed beautifully, and McKelvey even had a solo. Well she had a brief moment where she was the only one onstage. But I thought she owned it. It was so graceful. I have pictures up. I have some cute pix of the kids as well.
I finally put up some pictures of spring, it has been here for weeks but I’ve been swamped.
We drew on the sidewalks, and tidied up the yard as well.
All the pictures are Here.
I am in the midst of Little Shop of Horrors. Here is one afternoon’s work shrunk down to a minute or so:
At school we are doing Little Shop of Horrors, which means that I have been listening to the music a lot in preparation. As a result, the girls have started asking questions.
“What is Skid Row?”
“Why does the plant like to eat people?”
“What does ‘semi sadist’ mean?”
So it brings up a lot of questions. A lot of them about how scary the plant is. I thought the best way to answer that was to just get them to see it.
Today the whole family went to see the puppets. They had a great time looking at them and playing with them. Liam just had fun scooting around the big empty stage. McKelvey’s reaction when I opened the mouth of the biggest plant was:
“It’s like a rowboat with teeth.”
I found this great talk how creativity is as essential as literacy.
Here is a linkto the original page.
McKevley: ” Dad, I want to grow up and be a teenager forever and not a grown up.”
Me: “Why do you want to be a just a teenager?”
McKevley: ” Teenagers can get to do things, grown ups have to do things.”
I couldn’t argue with that.
