Ground control, a light table covered with sand & a camera mounted either above or below with occasional projections when we choose to do live animations over narrative or recollections. Anyone tempted?
Dance Notes
New Maya Deren Moves: the cheat sheet
1. Gesture forward
2. Gesture right
3. "Me" @ chest
4. Forehead hands and up
5. Look down w/ right hand ringing left
6. Hand on chin
7. Shift R-L-R as shoulders roll then head drops.
8. Shift center, gesture forward
9 Left hand down right arm, palm down, flip palm up, left arm goes up to R elbow
10. Gesture and look to left w/ left arm
11. gesture right w/ left arm to chest, hip and head to R also.
Alien Wall
And here are some really amazing pictures I found last night after the meeting to try and describe what the floating wall on the Other's side should look like. As its based on whatever found wall/items we can find, several options of the way in which it was burned/distorted/worn down, but all very, very cool!
Set image onslaught!
My apologies for the wait, but here are the original sketches we're working from, if it posts right from the first ones to the latest so that if you want to see how things have changed and solidified you can, but if you don't want to the important is at the top!
- Chad
Quivering Senses
So... more inspiration.
I read this blog pretty regularly. It's written by a woman with 7 children who has left the "quiverfull" movement -- a super conservative christian movement that believes in 'letting the lord do your family planning'. I heard about her through this Salon article, and have been oddly drawn back to her blog regularly. It's pretty fascinating, to see how she makes the transition from years of cult-like thinking to what I think of as 'normal' life.
Anyway. I haven't mentioned this because it didn't seem too relevant to space and memory and time. But today she posted about sensory hallucinations and it seemed eerily applicable.
I quote:
I read this blog pretty regularly. It's written by a woman with 7 children who has left the "quiverfull" movement -- a super conservative christian movement that believes in 'letting the lord do your family planning'. I heard about her through this Salon article, and have been oddly drawn back to her blog regularly. It's pretty fascinating, to see how she makes the transition from years of cult-like thinking to what I think of as 'normal' life.
Anyway. I haven't mentioned this because it didn't seem too relevant to space and memory and time. But today she posted about sensory hallucinations and it seemed eerily applicable.
I quote:
Anyway. If you want to read the whole post, here it is: http://nolongerquivering.com/2010/05/04/mayhem-on-the-homefront-dont-freak-out-2/The freakiest thing has been happening to me lately: I’m having sensory hallucinations. Weird smells that get stuck in my nose and mouth for days. The first time it happened was last summer ~ for several days, all I could smell was cinnamon. I tasted it too.
The cinnamon smell eventually went away ~ but since then, I’ve had the same thing happen with the smell of bleach, Listerine, oregano, dish soap, cat litter ~ it’s always a strong, distinct odor which completely overwhelms my sense of smell and taste.
For over a week now, all I can smell is fresh pencil shavings. Our lilacs are in bloom ~ and even when I stick a bunch of blossoms right under my nose and take a deep breath ~ all I smell is lead and sawdust. I usually chew Winterfresh gum ~ and lately, I can only taste the mint flavor for about a minute ~ and then the gum tastes like lead.
Meredith Monk
I too have more inspiration to post. And everyone, keep posting things you come across that are related to the show! I'll post them on FB & twitter.
Anyway, here is Meredith Monk, hocketing:
Anyway, here is Meredith Monk, hocketing:
More Radio Inspiration from Radiolab
Yes, I know we're past the point of new inspiration for this go round, so this is for fun for now.
Radiolab is the freaking bomb and they have so many podcasts that are right up our alley...
Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters
Ah, discovery. One of the great and noble pursuits of humankind. Also one of the most dangerous, frustrating, ego-driven, transcendent, sublime, dirty, long, demoralizing, inspiring......you get the idea. Why are inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge so seductive? We take a grand tour of characters and their stories of love and loss in the name of science.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/12/12
Where Am I?
OK. Maybe you're in your desk chair. You're in your office. You're in New York, or Detroit, or Timbuktu. You're on planet Earth.
But where are you, really?
This week Radio Lab tries to find out where you are. This hour: stories of people whose brains and bodies have lost each other. We ask how does your brain keep track of your body? We'll examine the bond between brain and body and look at what happens when it breaks. We begin with a century-old mystery: why do many amputees still feel their missing limbs? We speak with a neuroscientist who solved the problem with a magician’s trick: an optical illusion. We continue with the story of a butcher who suddenly lost his entire sense of touch. And we hear from pilots who lose consciousness and suffer out-of-body experiences while flying fighter jets.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/05/05
Memory and Forgetting
According to the latest research, remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. It’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7 second memory.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08
Space
In the 60’s, space exploration was an American obsession. But the growing reality of space has turned the romance to cynicism. We chart the path from then to now. We begin with Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan, with a story about the Voyager expedition, true love, and golden record that travels through space. For a dose of reality, astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson explains the Coepernican Principle and just how insignificant we are.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/05/12
Emergence
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies, all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. How? That’s our question this hour. We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, even our very own brains. Featured: author Steven Johnson, fire-flyologists John and Elizabeth Buck, biologist E.O. Wilson, Ant expert Debra Gordon, mathematician Steve Strogatz, economist James Surowiecki, and neurologists Oliver Sacks and Christof Koch.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2005/02/18
Radiolab is the freaking bomb and they have so many podcasts that are right up our alley...
Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters
Ah, discovery. One of the great and noble pursuits of humankind. Also one of the most dangerous, frustrating, ego-driven, transcendent, sublime, dirty, long, demoralizing, inspiring......you get the idea. Why are inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge so seductive? We take a grand tour of characters and their stories of love and loss in the name of science.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/12/12
Where Am I?
OK. Maybe you're in your desk chair. You're in your office. You're in New York, or Detroit, or Timbuktu. You're on planet Earth.
But where are you, really?
This week Radio Lab tries to find out where you are. This hour: stories of people whose brains and bodies have lost each other. We ask how does your brain keep track of your body? We'll examine the bond between brain and body and look at what happens when it breaks. We begin with a century-old mystery: why do many amputees still feel their missing limbs? We speak with a neuroscientist who solved the problem with a magician’s trick: an optical illusion. We continue with the story of a butcher who suddenly lost his entire sense of touch. And we hear from pilots who lose consciousness and suffer out-of-body experiences while flying fighter jets.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/05/05
Memory and Forgetting
According to the latest research, remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. It’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7 second memory.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08
Space
In the 60’s, space exploration was an American obsession. But the growing reality of space has turned the romance to cynicism. We chart the path from then to now. We begin with Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan, with a story about the Voyager expedition, true love, and golden record that travels through space. For a dose of reality, astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson explains the Coepernican Principle and just how insignificant we are.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/05/12
Emergence
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies, all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. How? That’s our question this hour. We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, even our very own brains. Featured: author Steven Johnson, fire-flyologists John and Elizabeth Buck, biologist E.O. Wilson, Ant expert Debra Gordon, mathematician Steve Strogatz, economist James Surowiecki, and neurologists Oliver Sacks and Christof Koch.
www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2005/02/18
