Archive for the ‘art’ Category
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
The final class of the Bovine Metropolis Theater's Level 3 series started off with an excellent exercise: we stand in a circle. The rules are to do what everyone else is doing, and exaggerate or subdue it. Eventually everyone is doing the same thing, which is evolving. ...
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Today my improv comedy class from Madcap Theater performed a couple of shows to demonstrate what we had learned in the six week "Level 1" class. As with the first performance, it went great. What is even more satisfying that what I've learned through the classes is the ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Last night I saw a this South Park episode (Season 7, Episode 8) that ridicules the metrosexual fashion.
Ridicule sure is persuasive - I'm going to start wearing my socks three or four times before washing them. ;)
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
What I do isn't psychic. What I do isn't supernatural. It has absolutely no relation whatsoever to those other realms, whether or not they even exist. - Marc Salem
My friend Andrew told me about this show, and I highly recommend the May 2005 60 Minutes segment (transcript), where Salem repeatedly ...
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Tonight I attended was the third of eight Level 1 Improvisational Comedy classes given my the Bovine Metropolis Theater. During the first two weeks most of the exercises involved work with imaginary objects. For example, we'd envision ourselves eating at our favorite restaurant, doing an everyday activity like ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
On Saturday Dominic and I browsed the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver. Three artists were noteworthy. Nanographic Arts, by George Clark and May Ann Clark, used scanning electron microscope images to create stimulating images. The second artist did sketches, and unfortunately I can't track down his contact ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
Two cool articles this week:
Nestle chief rejects the need to `give back' to communities, via e-mail from Heather. it's about time. The CEO must have read Milton Friedman's article from 1970 or the new CSR Watch website.
Also, John Stossel did a report on modern "art" last week.
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
A good week for talks, and I'll finally let myself write about it, as I found the "bug" in my program after one long and frustrating day. A multiplication instead of a division symbol. Doh!
I met the President's Science Advisor, John Marburger. I gave him a copy ...
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
I was at a friend Ben's house to watch the Super Bowl. Eagles almost pulled it out. What's the percentage of successful on-side kicks, anyway? I read something about that recently. Paul McCartney sure has the head bob thing going when he performs. There's something a ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
Hmm...had a link here. Probably to something like these.
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