Here are the other pieces, with some of the Riverside art work they were surrounded by.
This one is called "Protect your resources"
He's the little wolfy faucet down at the bottom center of the photo.
And "Sunken" a ship that I'm quite fond of,
One of the pieces that I placed in the Riverside Art Museumes "Off The Wall" Show was sold!! I'm surprised at the peice that sold. Of the three I entered I figured that the sunken ship would be the one to go. How wrong I was, it was the "Choosen Walk" that went. It was a sculpture of a temple type building on top of large hill with a spiraling walkway. It's incredibly exciting!! Now I've got a little thing to brag about. A small but fulfilling event to say the least. Here are the other pieces, with some of the Riverside art work they were surrounded by. This one is called "Protect your resources" He's the little wolfy faucet down at the bottom center of the photo. And "Sunken" a ship that I'm quite fond of,
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So I'm part of the Riverside Art Museum's Off the Wall Show!!
Three of my pieces, Sunken, Resource Protection, and The Chosen Walk, are all tucked away and ready to possibly be sold. Which is pretty cool. I'd love to have nothing to pick up on Dec 3rd and 4th. So the show is designed to allow Local Artists to gain recognition. At the same time the proceeds from the sales are split between the Riverside Art Museum and the Artist. I'll try and scrounge up some pictures of these pieces to show off with!! So I'm part of the Riverside Art Museum's Off the Wall Show!!
Three of my pieces, Sunken, Resource Protection, and The Chosen Walk, are all tucked away and ready to possibly be sold. Which is pretty cool. I'd love to have nothing to pick up on Dec 3rd and 4th. It gets money for me and some money for the Art Museum. Back in August I auditioned for Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights. After some fickle back-and-forth with the Staffing Department while I was on a family vacation, I was finally accepted and cast in 2010's company of performers. After a few more tricky dips, dodges, ducks, dives, and dodges, I made it through the paperwork, the orientation and the training.
Today was the employee preview. We got acquainted with our costumes, got friendly with the makeup department, and had wigs attached to our heads. All for the glory of Halloween! My character has been lifted out of Hispanic Folklore. I am playing one of the La Llarona's on the Terror Tram. Our faces are wrinkled and we get tinted a strange, gray-green-yellow. Long black wigs with veils attached give the hints of a maid searching the earth for her children. The costume has a fun coating of something that makes the sleeves and dress bottom look as if they're wet. I liked this detail as La Llarona is known for having drowned her children and soon after herself. So far it's been a good experience, we'll see if that lasts through out the whole event. Have you heard about Marlow?
He's the creation of shingkhor an artist whom I met through Shakespeare Orange county in 2007. She was working on Taming of the Shrew as the Set Designer and Set Painter. She helped create the world of Padua and Italy, if I remember correctly. Since then we reconnected via live journal (through a plush community group). Since then I've been following her many monster art pursuits. Currently, in between disecting cute monsters, she's been creating a running comic about the life and experiences of Marlow, a shy monster who is still single and living with his mother!! If you'd like to meet him too click the link below. Marlow the Monster So Check it out!!!! About a month ago, Flutterby Puppets took a break due to economic downturn. I got a call from Denis, the Owner and creator, yesterday saying the Hiatus was going to continue for quite a while. This is unfortunate on multiple levels, the most superficial being that Flutterby Puppets was one of the only companies that paid it's employees. But more than that is the fact that Flutterby Puppets is the company with which I've created a foundation. It's where I learned the basics of puppetry manipulation, dabbled in voice over, and got back to my tech crew roots. For a reasonably small company in Carona there was a lot going on.
Thank you Denis for giving me the chance to grow. You allowed me to test myself as a puppeteer even though I had relativly little experience when I started out. I'm going to miss the other puppeteers, the fantastic puppets that Denis was able to create and the audiences at the Birthday parties and the Riverside Water District events. As of November I have been spending my Wednesdays volunteering at the International Puppetry Museum in Pasadena. There I've been tasked with the challenge of properly organizing all the puppets in their collection. The storage system is broken down by continent and it has been my job to go through the boxes starting with Europe Box 1 and get everything in line with the system that they've set up. It can be tedious work to unwrap each puppet, re-write each card (two per puppet), then tag, re-wrap and re-box everything, however, I get a huge kick out of being able to see so many different types of puppets and that alone can make my day. On top of this, the individuals running the Museum are a joy to be around. Alan Cook, who it seems majority of the collection, radiates excitement and will tell you anything that you want to know about the art of puppetry. I look forward to getting back there after the holidays.
It's that time of the year again. I'm re-prising my role as the Juggler with the Dancing Squirrel productions. Last Year we brought to life a tale about Santa and his elves that we traveled around to different schools that lack Arts Funding and to Children's Hospitals.
Some of the Places We're Heading
It's also a pretty new Cast this year, more were planning on returning but ended up having schedule conflicts. I'll miss them, but the silver lining is that I'll get to know a whole new group of people. After a 6 1/2 hour workshop with Michael Earl (a retired Jim Henson puppeteer) on Sunday I was beat. Things I learned
The puppets he brought were of such great quality. And we did some improv from time to time. I wasn't super proud of my stories and ideas, being to caught up in focusing on the puppet and the camera, however I was a part of a really good improv during the day. There were three characters at a bowling alley, and then Timmy got stuck in the pin return. It was higher level of improv that any of the other ones we did because it had semi defined characters, a little plot arch, and was interesting. These muppety puppets were created by a genius. Not that I want to praise any one person to much, but they really were well made. Michael created them himself, and possibly because he'd worked with the Henson company for so long, and they fit like a glove. The only foam is in the creation of the mouth, the rest of the body is just cloth with no real support and this fact alone makes it possible to play with them above your head for hours with very little arm fatigue. I MUST STUDY THEM.. So simple yet exquisite in their construction. The body, the eyes, the rods!! It's orgasmic... alright, awkward, but it gets my point across. With some very simple ingredients these intensely expressive creations are there for play time. I LOVE IT!!! Bradly, one of the other puppeteers in this "troupe" had worked for 3 years on some Disney shows and he's great to work with because he knows how to get the characters to life. Denis and Warren both create some fantastic voices. All things that I strive to become better at. An exciting plus was that we used music quite alot and I was really excited that one of the exercises was to the Mahna-mahna Song!! Below are two clips of puppetry work done with Michael Earl, HOWEVER they are not something that I was a part of happening, I believe during one of his regular classes. I post this more as an example of the puppets (and for general entertainment) than anything else. Aren't those puppets mind blowingly cute? I do love the dog bunny! Flutterby Arts is opening up another door and its a door that leads to individual entertainment gigs. As part of Kids Party Stars, I get to romp around as a Princess Pixie, tell stories, and pay games with kids. To come is the creation of a small puppet who stows away in my Pixie basket and helps tell stories during the length of the party show. It's an exciting new step. |
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