Art School Christmas Wish List

-16 oz.+ hammer
-Fat Max tape measure
-very fine (V5)  Precise Pens
-Time

-A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting
by Steven Louis Shelley

-Light Fantastic 
by Max Keller

-Adobe Photoshop Elements

Stuff

Yesterday I volunteered for a crew call on the Winston Salem Light Project. This is the third year the school is doing it, and its going to be really big this time. There are about four or five sites going to be lit, all of a grand scale. I learned a lot in just four hours and though a bit chilly, had great fun.

Check out the website for it for more info here.

Meanwhile my work on the production of Light Up the Sky is going great. Tonight we will have our third performance after four dress rehearsals starting last Sunday evening. We run through next weekend, which is also arts finals week... which is also the week before academic finals. Its getting crazy crazy crazy around here, but I'm still enjoying it nonetheless.

Can't wait to come home next week...

Its been a while

Its been a while since I've posted, I know... and I know you are all RAVENOUS readers of my blog because you're DYING to know. I just read my last post and realized how much I've done since then, and frankly I probably won't remember.

But anyway. Tonight I begin work on crew for a show, Light Up the Sky by Moss Hart. Its a great show, quite funny. I saw a rehearsal run-through last Thursday night and the cast is quite phenomenal. The drama department is really great here, they're very small and selective, and have graduated some seriously awesome folks. These past two weeks, I was able to see Tracers, a Vietnam-war focused ensemble show and You Can't Take It With You, a classic 1930s comedy. Its so great to see the shows here, they're phenomenal, real professional theatre. The production quality cannot be matched. I wish I could have seen Tracers about five more times. Anyway, I start tonight as a dresser for four actors on Light Up the Sky. I am a dresser because this term I am assigned to wardrobe crew, and have been working in the costume shop stitching costumes (I can do alterations now!). So I have four actors that I'm responsible for making sure they have the proper costume on at the right time and that it looks like it should. You would think that is pretty simple (and it is) but it still carries a great deal of responsibility (and paperwork...). I'll be working on Light Up the Sky for the next two weeks, usually putting in around 6 hours every dress-rehearsal, and 4-5 every show. Fun fun!

Maybe I'll take some pictures of work I'm doing in classes sometime soon, they're all stored away right now. I've got some pretty neat stuff! I have quite a lot of stuff these days.

I'll be coming home Wednesday, the 24th for those of you in Columbus (because I just KNOW by blog has international readers by now) and will be there through Sunday, the 28th. For Christmas I should be coming home the 12th of December and have to leave January 3rd. The breaks aren't long here, and very few, but we like what we do, so I guess its worth it.

And now for pictures!

Drafting!

Found this in a magazine... hmmm... maybe I should go to school there...

This is how small our library is. (Were getting a new one if we can find any money)

A Library with books I like!

Our AC, which had not worked for some weeks, has finally been fixed with this fancy new digital control.

So one night the fire alarm had a short in the line and went off every 10-15 min. We camped out in the Student Center for a while.

Working on a color and design project: creating a dance backdrop using cut out magazine shapes (yes, all cut-out magazines!)

More work...

I don't have a photo of the final product, its being graded right now. After this step I added a black grid I cut out to go over the magazine shapes.

This is the stair case to get the lower stacks of our tiny library. Warm and inviting, huh?

This is for my parents. To PROVE to them I CANNOT SEE YOU!!!! HA!