Puppet Leg Mechanism

Sculpting Open Eyes In Clay. Sculpting tutorial-demo.

Breathing Puppets

Mechs!

For Fernando...

last week , just as i was about to show up to my own pity party,  I spoke as usual to one of the  gentleman that does custodial duties at my school.

Usually its:
"hi, como estas?
"Bien, y tu? "
smiles.

But, the other evening i said,
"why am i still seeing you here!? i saw you early this morning....how long have you been working?"

He replies "i work from 7 to 12 everyday."
i say, "Well its way past 12--so go home!
He say "i work from 7 am to 12 AM, every day.

"ah!" i scream. "What about your family?  i laugh."Your wife will leave you!"
he say "my wife. she already left me."
 "ah!" i scold. "Because you work tooo much!"

"when she was home, i worked only 40 hrs a week...but since she left... "

"..ah..... oh...." i  realize...
"aaaaha" he says  "You understand.  When i work...there is no time to think or feel or to be lonely.. there is just work."

this sound design homework is for you Fernando, whose wife left in June.
i hope soon to see you  at work....less...and exploring a life that is yours...more.

hmph....

A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints from Greg Petchkovsky on Vimeo.

meditation doodle #.....

honesty.
honor.
honing.




ah: i normally don't blog about such things, but... the "bic z4 0.7mm" ink pen... good job bic...

Landfill Harmonic teaser

excerpts and inspirations for "Analog"... a work in progress..

Matted Hair of woolen sunset haze!  Feet bare on the earth,  Tiny  fist… full of sparklers…runs!!!  she runs and plays  tag with the darkness.

And the night loves that woolen halo like a grandfather's love.  From the porch smiling and rocking.

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She was hatched from a shape shifters egg, and the hand that lifted her from it were not the hands of a shape shifter. She was marked with a scent that turns mother birds away  from their babies. Marked with difference.  She will be raised without wings and groomed for a different work.  Bye bye black bird.

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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

Buy Tickets

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.

Ehn brings Soulographie: Our Genocide to New York | Brown University News and Events

Ehn brings Soulographie: Our Genocide to New York | Brown University News and Events

praying and painting...

looking at the devil
grinning at his gun....

                                                             daily meditation #3

 

daily meditation #2

Getting out from under...

excerpts from the day's solo performance/poetic series
not yet titled.

 ...I am getting out from under...
out from under headwraps,
HAIR, white men hangups.
and old secrets and shame
plant those winter flowers sis...
last night i dreamed of sand castles....
and i was on the inside looking out of doors too small for me to enter.


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"...to be aerodynamic...
to reduce wind strikes
to cut through the atmosphere like dolphin fin through ocean froth
to travel the most efficient of ways
like silken black pearled crow wings slice through skies
like rockets zip to the moon..."

~nehprii

daily Meditation #1 (oct. 1)

 

~created by Nehprii Amenii

Water from the moon...

(Inspiration for... my mama outsides and my daddy's insides...)

Water near surface of a Jupiter moon only temporary

Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has long been thought to harbor water underneath its icy crust. New research suggests that water gets close to Europa's surface sometimes, but doesn't stay there long.

Liquid water may be close to the moon's surface during some periods of time, but it migrates back downward after a few thousand years – the blink of an eye,  in geological terms. Variations in gravitational pull from Jupiter produce the heat that temporarily melts the ice near the surface.
Klára Kalousová from the University of Nantes in France and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, presented the research at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid last week. She said that while her findings show water only a few kilometers below the surface is likely on Europa, it disappears quickly.

Kalousová mathematically modeled what liquid water and solid ice would do under various circumstances. Her research revealed that variations in density and viscosity caused liquid water to drift downward, eventually settling in the subsurface ocean.

"It means that water episodes are brief," Kalousová explained.
The ocean may be 20 to 50 kilometers (12 to 30 miles) below the surface. Liquid water could be present in more shallow areas, but would quickly travel deeper below the moon's surface.

"One opinion in the scientific community has been if the ice shell is thick, that's bad for biology. That might mean the surface isn't communicating with the underlying ocean," said Britney Schmidt, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas, in a statement in 2011. "Now, we see evidence that it's a thick ice shell that can mix vigorously and new evidence for giant shallow lakes. That could make Europa and its ocean more habitable."

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of Jupiter's largest moons. It is approximately the same size as Earth's moon and has an iron core, a rocky mantle, and a water shell with a depth of approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) that lies beneath a bed of solid ice. Images of Europa show cracks on its surface, because tidal forces constantly shift the ocean under the ice that rests above it. Europa orbits Jupiter every three and a half days.

According to NASA, the warm temperature of Europa's ocean could be a reason for further research, particularly into the possibility of organisms dwelling in its waters.

"Our results will help to understand the formation of different surface features observed on Europa, where liquid water may play a key role, as has been previously proposed," said Kalousová. "Moreover, if liquid water areas are discovered in the upper ice shell by a future exploration mission, our results would imply that they have been produced recently."

 

First Animation Shadows for "Crow bring Light" an Inuit Tale

~made by Nehprii Amenii 9/2012

African Cosmology: Take #1

an exploratory work in progress.
draft 1.
typo: "Science of their religion" (not silence..hmmm....but maybe)

For the inside of the Labyrinth wall: what shape/texture can the wall clips  be projected on to?
Smoke? (sheet music collage)

Through the headpones of the seated character blast "Katrina Klap!"

THE IMAGINATIVE PRESENT...

Breathing life back into this Blog ... Amen. Amen.

Listen to internet radio with The Funky Writer on Blog Talk Radio

I just came across this interview I did at the beginning of the summer and never posted. (It takes me a while to be able to listen to my own voice.) Well, I just listened, and i realize that it's a good entry way back into breathing some life into this blog, since it explains why I have not done so in the past year! As of last fall, my creativity has taken  a rich detour---grad school. And I haven't had the time, nor known exactly what to shape this blog into in the mean time... Tonight, as I'm a lil jammed up on completing a piece of writing for my solo-play writing class ..I did just manage to begin refreshing myself on the mold-making process (for some puppets in the making),  finish a painting, and read a bit of a new novel that has nothing to do w/ my course work at all... So, i'm just thinking that this blog may very well turn into a tracking-of-the-creative-process-type-of -space... kind of like a scape page for my mind...much needed! Along side my writing and performance making work, I've also  put my self back to the task of a no-pressure- miniature-painting-a-day.  (I don't think i've ever used so many hyphens in one piece of writing)  i think i'll track those paintings here as well too! So, all this to say: prepare to see a bit of anything at this point...as it will all be bits and pieces of  my mind and doings along the way to birth...

i think this may actually be perfect...

"Then into it He blew the breath of life,
And man became a living soul.
Amen. Amen."
                ~From The Creation, by James Weldon Johnson