a star-seeded core...teaching children to be innovators.

my latest dj hero.


http://www.crowdrise.com/InnovateSalone

Shapeways 3D Printing & the Culture of Creativity

Been thinking on this for several days now.. mind blowing...
threre's a part of me that feels like John henry and the machine... fear of the human becoming obsolete.

feels absolutely perfect for the theatre world. set models. my goodness...solutions! to the mind of mine that  can conceive a full production stage design but does NOT want to do the leg work of the model making.  transient productions. things made to be destroyed.

this has to be the means tho..not the end... otherwise creative essence is lost..that specialness that people
get in their eyes when they show something and say "this was hand made" things made w/ the hand...
energy...transference of maker into object. ...most of that already lost.

anywho...there's also the me that just wants one of these today--like now! to print out the 52 puppet limbs i'm needing to construct...

more on this...

for now,

in awe of the 3d printer.

and the art of "failing faster."

excerpts ..poetic series w.i.p..

...but the man who didn't, hollowed out a valley inside of me with his footprint..compass toes pointed west as the sun slouches in exhaust behind a line of divide... going.going.gone. It is a quiet zone in here. The center of ocean craters.. |depths of feelings and thought| . moist lands of erosion. Where microscopes see stars and telescopes are pressed to the ear. ...

 I am coming to learn that i am inevitably him...

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability

                  

Vulnerability is the birthplace of
Innovation, Creativity, and Change.
To create is to make something that never existed before.
There is nothing more vulnerable than that.

oya's whip... (....or haarp's)

hurricane update: 4 chambers underwater. pipes busted in lacrimal duct. internal power--surges...

merging...

"...at some point you have to give yourself over to what you want to be..."

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 "The hardest thing to achieve in any art form--really, in anything at all--is simplicity. "We always complicate everything, either out of dishonesty or out of a desire to show off or prove something.

 Direct communication is powerful and difficult and dangerous, but whenever I could achieve it, I was good. "You have to commit yourself wholly to your task, to your script, to your director, to everyone with whom you work, and you have to be true and clear all the time.

 "That's the hard part, and we all thought it was about acting or about writing or about proving ourselves. What it was really about was exposing ourselves, utilizing ourselves.

 "It's a sadistic sort of riddle I'm going to give to you, but the hardest things is to be simple, to relinquish the artist in order to become one." - Marlon Brando/July 1990

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meditations...

 

Morning Meditation #...??? 

mid-day meditation

                                                      lunch time meditation


doodles: the art of attention.
attention: the art of presence.
presence: the art of merging with Presence.

"to the rationally minded the mental processes

of the intuitive appear to work backwards. ~ Frances Wickes

What Is Kamishibai?

ACT I...
this could work....

thinkin...

thinkin of rita 'round about now..
they say "non of the other women, ... it never bothered you?"
she say, with a smile " ... i was his guardian angel...i had  moved beyond the role of wife.."
she say " we had work to do, and i took our work serious.. Our work was
to bring the people closer to Jah..."
 
...

 

 thinkin on the war on the Artist...
he attacks the Artist first, she said. ...

...

 

Thinkin of Erik Ehn's words..."genocide is not chance. not accident. it is policy. and art and genocide go hand in hand.  Wherever there is genocide there is always art. The art is always used in its support...the killing happens to a rhythm...on the beat... be deliberate in your art...in how it will be used."

(....but still i'm thinkin of rita... the guardian of the light...
spirit realm and terrestrial realm. like written words held up to a mirror..
in this realm, in the body-- he is the provider and protector.  In mirror realm, of the spirit..
it is the she.
She provides for and protects the inverse of flesh.)

Performing in Maryland Oct 20th and 21st

 

DOUBLE ASPECT BRIGHT AND FAIR

Written by Erik Ehn | Directed by Dan Hurlin

American Dance Institute  National Incubator

October 20 at 7:30p &  October 21 at 2:00p

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Critic’s Pick- The Washington Post

“I don’t really see what I do as theatre. To me, puppetry is more like dance. Both rely on movement instead of text.”- Dan Hurlin

DOUBLE ASPECT BRIGHT AND FAIR is part of Erik Ehn’s Soulographie Project— a durational performance event looking at 20th century America from the point of view of its relationship to genocides in the states, in East Africa, and Central America. It aims to create channels of dialogue through art and conversation.

Hurlin’s work was chosen as theBEST DANCEperformance of 2009 by Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post.

After ADI’s incubator, Double Aspects Bright and Fair will premiere at La Mama in New York City later in 2012.