Posted in Inspirational, School, tagged Musee des Beaux Arts, Poem, W.H. Auden on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another poem that I liked that we are working on in Voice class.
Musee des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the [...]
Posted in Reviews, Theatre on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The hour we knew nothing of each other by Peter Handke at The National Theatre
Director: James MacDonald
There were 27 actors in the hour we knew nothing of each other playing 450 characters. A remarkable feat in itself, but what had really inflamed my curiosity was that this play, written by a “great experimental figure [...]
Posted in School, Singing Lessons on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More singing exercises:
On Italian vowels:
a = ah
i = ee
e = ay
o = oh (as in cold)
u = oo
Head Voice (Only up to E sharp)
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/ on kiu / on lu [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, tagged Alienware on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That is the name of my new object of lust. I have been scoping out the Alienware’s new sexy notebook: The Area-51 M15X – 15.4 inch wide screen. It is the first notebook to make use of the VIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics card, and it uses the Intel Core 2 Extreme processors, so its [...]
Posted in Inspirational, tagged Mary Oliver, Poem, Wild Geese on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a short little poem that we worked on in Voice class yesterday…
“Wild Geese”
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, tagged Emotiv, Gaming, New Technology on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just needed to share a headline I just came across! ‘Brain Control Headset for Gamers!”
This headset by Emotiv uses “a set of sensors to tune into electric signals naturally produced by the brain to detect player thoughts, feelings and expression. It connects wirelessly with all game platforms from consoles to PCs. The Emotiv neuroheadset [...]
Posted in School, tagged Singing Lesson on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had my third singing lesson with my new tutor, Brenda, today. And, as usual, it was fab! I’m gonna post a review of the exercises and notes and stuff, mainly for my personal use because I keep misplacing my notes.
Warm up:
1 3 5 8 8 8 8 5 3 1 on Ga (dark ah as [...]
Posted in School, Theatre on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have two more weeks to bring together our Solo Story Project. For our Solo Story we each have to pick a story from our lives that caused a life changing moment and find a creative way to tell it in about 5 to 7 minutes. Here is my story:
“I was 16 the first time [...]
Posted in School, Theatre, tagged After Miss Julie, Patrick Mauber on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For our scene study project this term we are working through scenes from After Miss Julie by Patrick Mauber (author of Closer and Dealer’s Choice). A rewrite of Strinberg’s Miss Julie, and relocated from 1888 to 1945, Mauber’s After Miss Julie, like the original is about sexual power struggle played out between Miss Jullie, daughter to [...]
Posted in School, Theatre, tagged Anton Chekov, The Cherry Orchard, Theatre on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the big projects this term is a cut down version, about an hour and forty minutes, of Anton Chekovs The Cherry Orchard.
Synopsis: After five years abroad Madame Luyba Ravneskaya returns to her family estate, only to find that it is up for auction due to her large amount of debt. There she reunites with her [...]
