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One Month Until Opening Night!
Theatre Business, Theatrical ProcessSanta’s Helper opens in just one month! Make sure you get your tickets well in advance – Get a donor form and get your tickets reserved before they go on sale June 21st!
A Prettier Preview Page!
UncategorizedThe Santa’s Helper page is prettier now than ever before! Give it a look-see!
A Metro Map as well! Oh boy!
UncategorizedThat’s right folks, Santa’s Helper now has a handy dandy Metro Map on the webpage! Check it out!
More News on Santa’s Helper
UncategorizedHey everybody! We have a juicy preview of Santa’s Helper available to read on the Fringe Page! Check it out! Don’t forget to snag tickets early with our Donor Forms!
Sparkling Reviews for Bones at W+M
art, Theatrical ProcessGranted, by now this is old news, but it feels good to have wrapped up what felt like a fantastic show!
Anyway, Bones received two very positive reviews from our local student papers. They can be found at the Dog Street Journal’s website and at that of the Flat Hat. Many thanks to Carrie Crow and Ian Goodrum, respectively.
In addition, I wrote an Honors Thesis that tied to the show, and, 100 odd pages and a defense later, my Thesis has been submitted with Honors! So, I feel pretty good about the process all in all.
I have to say that one of the coolest parts of doing this show was being facebook friended by a young lady who will be performing as Beck in Great Britain. That is cross-continental communication occuring there! It just, blows the mind.
The final kicker for all of this hard work was the seven BOHICA awards that this show garnered. BOHICAs are the W&M Theatre version of the Academy Awards, where our peers vote for our accolades. Bones won, all in the Second Season category: Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Ensemble, Best Lighting Design, Best Director, and Best Show.
That said, some thanks are in order. The cast of this show was comprised of persons who were not only excellent actors, but who were great people with whom I would definitely work again at the drop of a hat. Their talent and dedication made me look good, while I pretty much got to sit back and enjoy great theatre in the making day after day. Furthermore, I have to thank my no less dedicated crew, whose long hours, gung-ho attitudes, and incredible expertise helped me make a visually awesome show.
Thank you all for helping me put on such a phenomenal senior directorial!
For those of you who were unable to see the show, check out this awesome video by Silk and Silver Productions!
Check out my Fringe Show!
UncategorizedI’m producing at Fringe show! Check out the Santa’s Helper page!
Sketches in GIMP
artIn Theory
UncategorizedHere are some fun theories I’ve been looking at:
If the big bang was a singularity to which the universe will return, what is the point of animal instinct of survival? For those of you who have read ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ this ties into the question of whether human reason, especially about chivalry and courage, laying one’s life on the line and imitating the martyrdom of Jesus, should override human instinct – the drives for sex, food, water, shelter, security. If the entire universe will end anyway and be recreated anew, why would the drive to survive matter? Even if humanity expanded out into the stars and was able to continue balancing its populace by expansion, what good would it do once the universe coalesced back into a singularity?
This led to another question: if the universe reverts to a singularity at the end of time, how does time work? Is it linear or circular? If it’s circular, how we account for continual change?
Which led me to think that, if time is circular, then it returns in an orbit bordering on the edge of the end of time, bounded by the beginning of time, traveling in spiraling orbital patterns around a central origin. If time was a 2d circle, repetitions would be much more obvious and predictable, however, as this is not the case, time might be spherical: ever traveling in orbit, but changing its degree around a certain axis, allowing for variation in the recurring events. Hence why history repeats itself, and yet the exact same phenomena never happen in the exact same place under the exact same context.
Now, if we were to view time as being linear, then the endpoints of this sphere – those at all the various parts of the surface area- would touch onto their own spheres, creating multiverses that connected like magnetic balls. There are then, in my mind, two interpretations of how these multiverses would connect – either in an ever expanding manner, or in a thoroughly connected one, like magnetic balls arranging into a shape. That being said, there are myriad points on the surface area of a sphere, and thus, following the science of fractals, various sizes of spherical universes would exist in the multiverse. In each case, there would be an infinite number of multiverses, as the fractals would become smaller and smaller in either case (and continually expand outward into more potentials of universal existence).
Now, returning to the pertinence of our universe: within each time-space sphere of universes, if time rearranged potential existences in one sphere, recurving on itself and not truly ending, then each sphere would have an infinite amount of time within itself, constantly flowing and transitioning from potential moment to potential moment.
Yes, Virginia, There is a Future
UncategorizedWell, after my tirade on the electric car, I find that this is a very positive piece of news:
The Nissan Leaf. It’s electric! They asked for my interest in the car and I filled out other: Large Corporate Innovations. Everyone should get together and buy one of these for your family, or carpool buddies, or yourself. Awesome.
Way to be, Nissan. Way to be.






