Wednesday, July 4, 2012
A while back, my company created a month-long transmedia performance called In Memoriam. (Entire archive available here). After a conversation with a colleague about our experience, I decide…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:14PMSunday, June 3, 2012
I DON'T WANT TO KILL MYSELF
Northside Film Festival’s DIY Competition
June 20th, 5:40 PM
(IMDB)
I didn't write the review I was intending a while back, but I spotted that the movie…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:43PMFrom 99 Seats at Parabasis:
So the question that comes to me is: what if this is it? A lot of us invest a lot of time in being semi-professionally upset about things. We want change! We wa…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:09PMFriday, June 1, 2012
I recently reviewed The Window, a performance piece at the Romanian Institute. I recently received word that it's been extended for the following dates:
June 5 through 7, 8.30 …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:02PMMonday, May 28, 2012
THE COLLECTED RULES OF GIFTED CAMP
The Brick Theater
(download the script here)
May 16th - 26th
The first time I went to pre-college camp, it was UCI, and I studied Forensics. M…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:45PMFriday, May 25, 2012
THE WINDOW
Romanian Cultural Institute
May 23rd - 29th
8PM-10PM
(on 20 minute cycles -- see below)
FREE
Firstly, you have almost no reason not to see this show. It is free, so …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:29PMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Village Voice asks the question, and actually gets creative answers from creative people. My favorite:
Susan Bernfield, artistic director of New Georges:
We gotta get with the food thing.…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:21PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
... high ticket prices edition:
And when it opens Antony and Cleopatra on October 22, tickets won't come cheap: $42 for the best seats, a new high that this season will match Goodman, Stepp…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:06PMMonday, May 21, 2012
I'm not a member of Actor's Equity, nor does my company work with Actor's Equity actors, but for those of you who are involved, you will be interested in this note that the League sent to it…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:47PMThursday, May 17, 2012
Unlike a stand-up comedian or a comic literary stylist such as James Thurber, who engaged in obviously implausible situations, Sedaris’s stories fall into a gray area.
Sorry, Washing…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:57AMSaturday, April 28, 2012
Let's review:
Mark Zuckerberg got Jessie Eisenberg:
Bill Gates got Anthony Michael Hall:
Steve Jobs gets Ashton Kutcher:
I think that makes two degrees of separation b…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:33PMHere's how the bright new generation sees advocacy:
From the manifesto of the website Upworthy ("Here's what we think is wrong with the Internet, what we plan to do about it, and a pi…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:23PMMonday, April 23, 2012
A fantastic look at marriage, actually presented at a real, honest to god wedding:I celebrate Taylor. I celebrate Karina. I celebrate [Taylor&Karina]. But this wedding also has a third party…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:24PMTake this as another apology from me... Periodically, I get swamped by work and by performances, and it takes me a bit to reboot. So I'm back in the saddle, will do some catching up.Also, in…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:16PMMonday, March 19, 2012
Last Thursday, I had the great pleasure of attending a talk by the head of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Although he is previously known for being a great communicator of scie…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:00AMSaturday, March 17, 2012
To the blogosphere: there's an incredible list of Nazi rules for jazz performance re-published on Atlantic Monthly's blog:
Pieces in foxtrot rhythm (so-called swing) are not to exceed 20% …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:59PMIsaac thinks about the "free download" approach to getting people hooked in your creative offering:
The question it seems to me is not what is theatre's equivalent of the free download? The…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:50PMHave I been on a gentle hiatus? Perhaps. I was quite industrious while I was working.
Anyways, some bits and bobs that caught my eye while I was out:
Forming a community, whoever we are:
…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:43PMPrevious installments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, an update, VII, and VIII
A frequent series I've been running here has been a look at the rules of engag…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:29PM(I steered clear of the obvious The Agony And The Ecstacy of Mike Daisey...)
Here's the situation:
A highly popular episode of This American Life in which monologuist Mike Daisey tells …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:29PMSunday, March 4, 2012
Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at 82. If you'd have asked me yesterday who my heroes were, I probably wouldn't have listed him (or his Star Trek counterpart, M…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:55AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Syrian rebels smuggled a wounded British journalist out of the besieged central city of Homs Tuesday and whisked him to safety in neighboring Lebanon, activist groups said.
How utterly fucke…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:58AMSunday, February 12, 2012
Mike Daisey continues to fight for his work to make its proper impact -- in this case, by challenging NYTimes Tech Columnist David Pogue to come engage more deeply with his work.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:53PMA little icing on the legal cake: buried in SCOTUSBlog's run-down on a ruling whether law requiring the losing party to pay for the cost of an interpreter applies to translation fees:
It’…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:51PMHere's Garrett Epps, in The American Prospect, describing the broader legal implications in the Ninth Circuit Court's decision to uphold the invalidation of Proposition 8:
“It’s always…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:18PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
A graf artist paid in Facebook stock.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:49PMEven Ken Davenport has noticed it.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:45PMThere's another great installment of "The Decoder", where Howard Sherman breaks down awful PR speak into understandable tid-bits.
I just wanted to highlight this one:
7. Timely = addres…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:44PMTwo examples of defending your work from critics today.
First up, Mike Daisey:
Daisey played to small but appreciative crowds across the US, winning critical praise but stirring little t…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:29PMSunday, February 5, 2012
This morning I woke up to a comment on this post, which was an innocuous reposting of Joshua Chamberlain's speech in the movie Gettysburg. The commenter, who was the person who posted the vi…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:00PM 
