Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another (a) film(s) by Andrew Zuckerman
Bless you Sunni! To all my students, actors, bosses, classmates, teachers and colleagues: I am paying attention to you. Truly, I am
I wrote this post two years ago a month before my husband and I moved into our home and two months before we married. It still applies directly to the issues of inspiration. Particularly the inspiration to revise your life at will. I continue to surf the wave of change that is sweeping through my life. Status Report: My daughter and I (and the goldfish and the guinea pig) have moved into our temporary home with my fiancé, my mother has moved into her new apartment (and is STILL waiting for her cable hook-up – AAAARGH!), my dog has moved into her temporary home with a friend of mine, we had the house inspection last Thursday and we are waiting for the seller’s response to our requests, my belongings are stored away in a truck that is parked in a secured area in some unknown location, my fiancé and I are learning how to co-habitate (practice makes perfect) and all of us are negotiating these new territories on a moment by moment basis
Get Yourself Back in the Creative Zone Grab a copy of this free e-book from Mark McGuinness of Lateral Action. I do appreciate Marks’s helpful and generous work. This book is a collection of articles he wrote in response to submissions from readers of his Lateral Action blog when asked to submit the creative blocks that keep them struggling. Mark is a poet who earns a living as a coach and trainer for creative professionals. He has no clue who I am, but he is one of my heroes on the horizon. Please grab a copy of this book and check out Mark’s blog too. Enjoy!
This is beautiful, disturbing, strange and familiar. I posted this on FB, but I wanted to share it here to because it is a very clear example of “doing truthfully in imaginary circumstances”. She is so precise and committed to the action (the doing) that you don’t see the dancer dancing the dance, you see the character living the dance. Look at the precise and clear beats – there is no general overall wash of emotion – no “performer” in the performance. The fact that she is a superb dancer is a given. I am agog at her commitment to and precision with the action from moment to moment and movement to movement. You see only the life. My acting students will understand this question: Do you see the OVARIOS!?!
Usually after a show closes, I get sick. All the stress and adrenaline that have been keeping me running for however many months of rehearsal + tech + performance take a vacation and leave my body defenseless. And my body says, “Girlfriend, you need a nap. I’m gonna zap you with a cold so you stay in bed and take long hot soaks in the tub.” Zing! Since Hedda Gabler opened last Thursday, my brain has gone numb. I had so many blog posts churning in my head when I didn’t have time to write them. Now that I have time to write them, they’ve vanished. I have them captured on my little “Future Blog Posts” list, but the creative energy required in order to bring those ideas coherently to fruition just wants to be left alone to play sudoku and read escapist fiction
We’ve been rehearsing since the last week in February. We are currently immersed in the tech/dress process and the play opens tomorrow night. I’m exhausted. The actors, the stage manager, tech director, props mistress and costumer are all ready to set this play free and let it be what it will be. I am curious to see how audiences will react. I’ve grown too close, too myopic, too familiar to be objective at this point. The actors are ready for an audience. Will the audiences laugh? Certainly there is some fun to be had. Deep breath. I am feeling a bit worn out, strung out and very emotional. I’m low on self-care and high (as in flying) on Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Opening night is just slightly more than 24 hours away
I promised I would share the goodies I found on my DIY Artsy-fartsy Planner Page Hunt. I wanted unique, attractive, useful, adaptable, fun, whimsical and colorful pages for my great big I-can’t-believe-I-carry-this-around-with-me-every-day binder. And I found some beautiful stuff: Eye candy for geeky artsy planners: There’s a group on Flickr with 370 members who have posted over 580 photos of their home-made, hacked, doodled-on, re-tooled, planners: Flickr:Do It Yourself Planners
Do you engage in a creative practice outside your main art form? If so, how does that practice inform your work? Or does it? Is there something else you’ve longed to try? What do you do to stretch your creative muscles? What can you do that will keep your vision fresh? For me it’s iPhone photography. These are pics shot and edited with my iPhone 3G for the iPhone photography class I’m taking. I’m having a blast with the class and learning tons. It’s very technical and my mind doesn’t grok technical easily. I’m a complete newbie to using any kind of camera. But I’ve always been fascinated with photos that aren’t your typical family vacation/reunion photos
My latest project is in the brainstorming phase so I thought I would toss it out here for your reaction. I would love to hear from you. I’ve decided I don’t want to do another traditional play for awhile. It’s time to explore something new. Enter – The Empty Chair Project. My hope is that this project will include many different kinds of performing and visual artists and give them the chance to explore working with a theme and making it their own
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