Wednesday, December 01, 2010
listen to the atomic scientist and the political visionary
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."--Winston Churchill
So get on with the mistake-making. There are still many (many!) you haven't made yet.
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Lucas Krech
Lucas Krech Lighting designer for opera, dance, theater, installation, and performance. Opera: Soldier Songs and Aida (Dir, Yuval Sharon); Don Giovanni (Dir, Mark Streshinsky); and The Seven Deadly Sins: A Fire Opera (Dir, Roy Rallo) Dance: Nicolo Fonte, Matthew Neenan, Sean Curran, Johannes Weiland, Donald Mahler, Sallie Wilson, Paul Sutherland, Keith Michael, Trebien Pollard, Anandha Ray, David Brick, and Viktor Kabaniaev. Off-Broadway: Fate's Imagination (Dir, Hayley Finn); Becoming Adele (Dir, Victor Maog); Sake with the Haiku Geisha and The Last Word (Dir, Alex Lippard). Regional Theatre: Desperate Hours and Of Mice and Men (Barter Theatre); Lovers & Executioners (MTC); House of Lucky (The Magic). His work has been seen across the United States, Puerto Rico, Rumania, and the UK. MFA from New York University.www.lucaskrech.comWelcome Lucas!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
ok, not really my style but...
(If you can't see a video below and you are on Facebook, click the headline above to go to my blog)
Learning to act is hard. Really hard. Every bit as hard as Roland, the guy in this video, says being a designer is.
People who think they need to miss class should think carefully about what kind of profession they think they are entering.
Watch the whole video, and more Roland Young, here.
From the comments under the video on Vimeo:
This is the clearest window into a Creative Director / Art Director relationship I could ever hope a student experiences before they send their first resume out into the world.
You're very-very lucky to have this as preparation for a job in design. Thanks for posting, this is great.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Travis Shakespeare!
Travis Shakespeare started acting early on in theater as a teenager in his home state of Colorado. His first recognition as an actor came from his performance in Flowers Out of Season, a Williamsesque drama about a borderline psychopath in Waco, TX. The Denver Post called his work a "bravura performance," which gave him all the reason he needed to head to NY to try for the big time.
After college Travis studied acting with Susan Grace Cohen and at The Actor's Studio. He had a recurring role on The Guiding Light, and featured roles in Spike Lee's Malcolm X and Woody Allen's Celebrity. He appeared in many independent films & commercials, as well as over 20 New York stage productions. Ultimately he nabbed a leading role on Broaday in the Lincoln Center production C'est La Vie, in which he played a young artist vying for success in New York society.
That experience sent him on to Los Angeles in 2001. Critics singled him out in A Charlie Brown Commercial Xmas as "brilliant"(LA Weekly) and "outstanding" (LA Times). A year later Daily Variety, Access Hollywood & Extra! all featured Travis in the industry spoof hit Allyn McBeal.
In 2004 Travis started producing documentary television, which meant less time to pursue acting, but he never lost his love for performing. In 2008 he decided to start auditioning again, and was cast in the Swiss short Big Sur, which garnered much festival recognition and a Swiss Academy Award nomination. In 2009 Big Sur was remade as a feature film, set to debut in the Spring. He also signed with Innovative Artists for commercials.
how Shakespeare changes us
Shakespeare's art is no more and no less than the supreme example of a mobile, creative and adaptive human capacity, in deep relation between brain and language. It makes new combinations, creates new networks, with changed circuitry and added levels, layers and overlaps. And all the time it works like the cry of "action" on a film-set, by sudden peaks of activity and excitement dramatically breaking through into consciousness. It makes for what William James said of mind in his "Principles of Psychology," "a theatre of simultaneous possibilities." This could be a new beginning to thinking about reading and mental changes.
Read the whole thing.
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