Posts from: February 2013
Empiricist League #5
Our friends at the Empiricist League have come up with another great line-up for the their fifth event, Tuesday, March 19th: three smart people talking about insanity, cancer-fighting warriors, demons, and miasma, otherwise known as “My War: The Immune System’s Never-Ending Battle Against Disease.” No better way to get your science on then with a…
Yuwei Cao, my collaborator on the “Wondrous Tales” projections
Working with the young performers and techies of Williston Northampton on the Wondrous Tales of Old Japan was a great experience. One of the students I’m particularly grateful to have worked with is Yuwei Cao. I met her as she worked in Williston’s costume shop under the direction of Ilene Goldstein, designer of our show’s…
Wondrous Tales of Old Japan
The play I’ve been working on opens Monday! I’ve been assisting director Charles Raffetto, transforming American teenagers into heroes, princesses, and ogres for Willliston Northampton school’s production of The Wondrous Tales of Old Japan. Playwright David Furumoto retells four traditional Japanese stories in The Wondrous Tales, slathering these fairy tales in kabuki styling. Kabuki is…
Fire at Pratt!
I’m sad to see images of the beautiful 19th century Main Building at Pratt Institute in flames. It’s wonderful that no one was hurt, but the repairs will be costly and the students’ work that was destroyed is irreplaceable. This Daily News article calls it “suspicious,” but I hope that’s not true.
former student Zoe Norvell’s new site
A lot of beautiful work here (no surprise) on the new website of my former student Zoe Norvell, currently working at Simon & Schuster. If you’re lucky, she might be available for freelance.
Free Robot Art Lab Workshop
Our sister blog, Wandermonster, is hosting a free Robot Art Lab Workshop on Saturday, March 9th, at FOE Gallery, a bastion of middle brow epicness in Northampton, Massachusetts. For the past five years, my son and I have created collaborative comics we call Lunch Posts. With this free art workshop, we’ll bring the parent &…
Illustrations for Azita Ranjbar in The Rumpus
I always enjoy creating illustrations for The Rumpus, one of my favorite literary blogs. This time I did some watercolors to accompany the writing of Iranian-American writer Azita Ranjbar. Give it a read.
South Africa’s Magnet Theatre
I’m not much of a fanboy or groupie, but I feel pretty honored to have been able to create the poster for the US premiere of South African theatre company Magnet‘s Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking. Three performers—two actor/dancers and a guitarist, who also composed the music for the show—craft an epic journey…