There are a huge number of photos of the dress rehearsal of Muéveme, Muévete here, including some good images of the set and lighting work I designed for the show. I put in some time on the sky of the Sun painting, a first layer of white that will become blue later on, and adding some transparent [...]
Tagged goldBeing involved in the tree project made me realize that I’ve never posted any of my photos of sets, so I’ve put together a page of pictures from a few past projects here.
Last night Lukas and I were arriving at the theatre when he received a call from his brother letting him know that his father had just passed away – he’s obviously got a million things running through his mind right now, poor fellow, taking him out of the picture. So this has been an intense couple of [...]
Aren’t these lovely! Latest photo courtesy of Lukas in Santa Barbara where he’s working hard to build the tree. The spirals go onto the ends of the branches, vertically. I’m looking forward to seeing the small pieces go onto the branches at intervals as well. I plan on exhibiting the tree at the Simi [...]
I spent a little time this evening cleaning up the galleries you can find here on the site, and adding some commentary to images that have hitherto remained unexplained. Visit the Gallery of Works and enjoy the links there. Earlier in the day I drove up to Santa Barbara to meet with Mitchell to talk [...]
I tried another method of making the rain sticks by using my chopsaw to cut angled slices into the pipe, then inserting pieces of cardboard into the slots. I think it could work very well if the slots were sealed really well with epoxy resin and using plastic instead of card, but the prototype broke [...]
There’s a scene in the play when a woman arrives in the rain, soaking wet. I wanted to come up with a way to illustrate rain without actually getting water into the performance space, so I made these rainsticks by drilling holes through pvc pipe, then pushing bolts through and tightening the nuts onto them, [...]
The truck wheel drum sounds awesome now the head is dry; a booming bass sound that resonates well. The leather is a little softer than I’d really like and won’t stand anything but hand hits, so I’ll need to get some harder skins for the big barrels if they’re to be used for rhythm too. [...]
I was so restless last night that I went for a walk at midnight, feeling like a werewolf as I strode along the dirt track that leads to the top of the craggy ridge behind the university, dimly lit by the moon in her clear sky. It was so quiet up there, a peace that [...]
I have found it very difficult to remain focused today, perhaps that big full moon has something to do with it? I enjoyed tying the drum head onto the wheel, then found it hard to move on to producing much more. I finally settled into beginning the design for the tree that will be central [...]
