Working in Theater. With a focus on Lighting Design. (thats a lighting joke)
I ate this once, I’m now sad
Outback Steakhouse Baby Back Ribs full rack
2,260 calories
no other nutritional information available
Let’s be honest: Ribs are rarely served alone on a plate. When you add a sweet potato and Outback’s Classic Wedge salad, this meal is a 3,340-calorie blowout.
via Mens Health – Eat This, Not That – 20 Worst Foods of 2009 – 5. Worst Ribs of 2009.
Great data deserves an eye-catching presentation, but most charting and graph-making software offers an overwhelming array of options. Andrew at the Extreme Presentation Method blog offers a flowchart to pick the wisest choice.
via Charts: Flowchart Decides Which Chart Style is Best for Your Data.
Thundercats Movie trailer fanmade
24th Street Theatre and Theatre Movement Bazaar present the World Premiere of Theatre Movement Bazaars latest theatrical creation, Model Behavior; i.e., The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, running from January 30-February 22, 2009, at 24th Street Theatre. The acclaimed Theatre Movement Bazaar TMB brings together a collaborative ensemble of eleven performers to shred Robert Louis Stevensons iconic story of Jekyll and Hyde into a collage of movement, theater and song that careens through cultural obsessions with mesmerism.
For more on MODEL BEHAVIOR, visit www.TheatreMovementBazaar.org
Disney has cast the leads and begun screen-testing actors for supporting roles forTron 2: The Grid starring Jeff bridges and Olivia Wilde. Principal photography is set to begin in April. Headshots should be sent by mail only to the casting directorSarah Halley Finn.
– Heather Langone
Before I was hired at LA Stage Alliance, I consulted on web projects for them. It led to the overhaul of the LA Stage Blog. Not much else from that time has been realized, but one idea that didn’t happen at the time was a social network for LA Theater.
Theater is a social network. We can’t, or at least probably shouldn’t, do EVERYTHING on our own and needing others means we need some kind of network in which to work. So it would make sense that we should try and provide the best tools for making this happen. Being that theater is a social network, it makes sense to use social networking.
When I was at LASA, we looked at ning. Ning is a social networking platform that allows users to start their own social network for whatever they’d like. We looked into it for things with LASA, but it didn’t really fit, so we forgot about it. I kept it in might for other uses. I looked at it for the school of theater at CalArts and for the CSPA to provide a bottom up companion to the site we have.
I did make the leap. I started a social network for Big Cheap Theater. Big Cheap Theater is a term coined by Erik Ehn, Dean of the School of Theater at CalArts, in reference to the type of theater he writes for (he is a playwright). It had been co-opted after the RAT Conference to name the yahoo group that stood in for any other type of infrastructure in LA Theater. That group was started in 1999 and I joined it in 2004, tipped off by a stage manager I was working with.
On a whim, I logged into my web panel on dreamhost and checked to see if the domain was open. It was with theater spelled either way and at .com and .org (which as a service I suppose, made sense to me) and I snatched them up. I created a ning social network and I figured I would walk away, tell some people and see if anyone uses it.
The first couple of days there was nothing to write about. People joined, a few kudos and so I posted for a second time on the Yahoo Group that it was there, have at. This turned into a bit of a shit storm.
For a bit I was banned from the group. A survey on the group came about because of the back and forth between myself and the moderators of the group. And people took sides, some people sent me kudos (most) and some sent me some nasty notes and now I’m in this position that I have to actually pay attention to the thing. It’s gotten up to 270 members, the poll isn’t there, and Im not really giving it much thought. But, these are tools, it makes sense to use the best tools for the job. I just can’t believe that this caused so much hub bub.
