A good weekend.
Dynamo is the end. And, as was pointed out at what was a strange cast party, I am DONE! with the drama department. High fives to anyone who has ever listened to me bitch about them, i.e. everybody.
My life is once again my own. How do I celebrate? Well, let me tell you:
I wake up at 1. I hang out with my mother. I get gently kicked out of her room after boring her with the entire textual history of Pericles at 10 in the night. I smoke up. I hang out with friends! I avoid my house, afraid to go home, because *certain* people have decided to do such things as:
http://community.livejournal.com/vassar/756654.html
...throw a rave in our house, which was (more or less) fine, but then advertise it on at least 2 blogs. All bedrooms locked, personal items/posters/most furniture removed from the living room, and the drama segment of us stays the hell away for fear of getting entangled in situations involving security guards and EMTs. Everything turned out fine, except that I'm about ready to lay the smackdown if this place doesn't get signifigantly better tomorrow...NSO /VT kids apparently have no concept of the true meaning of "clean".
Today I watch Star Wars as part of a design meeting. Today I research Renaissance sceneography just for fun! Today I have an idea! It goes as follows:
I'm trying to keep a book of cool (low budget!) tech ideas I have/see in action, in prep for a life of making awesome (low budget...) theater, possibly in some sort of warehouse setting. I remember that I had repeatedly stumbled upon book(s) in the library about what the Italians were doing back in the day, when they threw grand masques and invented perspective scenery (a distinction that my mother only grudgingly admitted last night)and cool shit like that. Said books would always have sections like "How to make chariots fly" and "How to create rainbows on stage". I figured that given that these all date back to the 15th or 16th century, it might be about on the level of technology that I would have access to in a lifetime of Craiglist-ing for parts, and that I should research their tricks of the trade.
I had, though, apparently never processed the fact that what they lacked in Electricity, the scenery types of the past made up in Big. I never will actually be able to make life size ships, for example, much less the huge mechanisms used to make them rock back and forth realistically on stage.
But. I kinda love this stuff, the sheer extravagance. So my idea is: Make it on a small scale, and then do a live feed onto a large screen of us simulating grand old theatrical practices of the past, a la Hotel Modern. Because the stage effects were fucking incredible. Like, any Broadway show you've seen, times 10, made out of pure manpower, artistry, and cash.
Today I remember suddenly that my take-home math test is due tomorrow. Whoops.
My life is once again my own. How do I celebrate? Well, let me tell you:
I wake up at 1. I hang out with my mother. I get gently kicked out of her room after boring her with the entire textual history of Pericles at 10 in the night. I smoke up. I hang out with friends! I avoid my house, afraid to go home, because *certain* people have decided to do such things as:
http://community.livejournal.com/vassar/756654.html
...throw a rave in our house, which was (more or less) fine, but then advertise it on at least 2 blogs. All bedrooms locked, personal items/posters/most furniture removed from the living room, and the drama segment of us stays the hell away for fear of getting entangled in situations involving security guards and EMTs. Everything turned out fine, except that I'm about ready to lay the smackdown if this place doesn't get signifigantly better tomorrow...NSO /VT kids apparently have no concept of the true meaning of "clean".
Today I watch Star Wars as part of a design meeting. Today I research Renaissance sceneography just for fun! Today I have an idea! It goes as follows:
I'm trying to keep a book of cool (low budget!) tech ideas I have/see in action, in prep for a life of making awesome (low budget...) theater, possibly in some sort of warehouse setting. I remember that I had repeatedly stumbled upon book(s) in the library about what the Italians were doing back in the day, when they threw grand masques and invented perspective scenery (a distinction that my mother only grudgingly admitted last night)and cool shit like that. Said books would always have sections like "How to make chariots fly" and "How to create rainbows on stage". I figured that given that these all date back to the 15th or 16th century, it might be about on the level of technology that I would have access to in a lifetime of Craiglist-ing for parts, and that I should research their tricks of the trade.
I had, though, apparently never processed the fact that what they lacked in Electricity, the scenery types of the past made up in Big. I never will actually be able to make life size ships, for example, much less the huge mechanisms used to make them rock back and forth realistically on stage.
But. I kinda love this stuff, the sheer extravagance. So my idea is: Make it on a small scale, and then do a live feed onto a large screen of us simulating grand old theatrical practices of the past, a la Hotel Modern. Because the stage effects were fucking incredible. Like, any Broadway show you've seen, times 10, made out of pure manpower, artistry, and cash.
Today I remember suddenly that my take-home math test is due tomorrow. Whoops.