I find wardrobe fittings to be a necessary evil. Necessary because it’s important to figure out what a character will look like in their clothes, and how they relate to other character’s clothes… etc. The awkwardness is that for me, the actor, I feel like am a human hanger during a fitting. I wonder if …
Painting is cathartic for me. I get out some dark emotions. I am always surprised to step back and see beauty from emotions that aren’t pretty and are sometimes painful. There is beauty from ashes. “…to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a …
A friend in New Zealand (where it is currently Summer) was talking to me today about it being so hot that everyone’s in their Stubbies, Singlets, and Bungee smugglers. Which had me scratching my head as here in the States we don’t have anything called “stubbies” and singlets are the skin tight uniforms that wrestlers …
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Looking in the full length mirror, I see my reflection staring back at me. I can’t help but chuckle as I am in a sherbert orange unitard. Taking a deep breath, I walk out onto set where I’ll be playing the role of an interpretive dancer. (For those that don’t know what a unitard is, …
As a hobby, I’ve been making Castille soap (Olive Oil based soap) for the past few years. I still recall the very first batch I made, and the awful stench that permeated everything because I used lard as the base for the soap. It smelled like burning pig flesh, and the resulting soap smelled like …
Answer 8 movie quiz questions about independent film actor Paul Cram’s movies, getting at least 3 answers correct & you’ll win a Fight Club* style bar of handmade pink soap made by the actor himself. Deadline to enter is Monday. The process of making the lye soap is a home made hot process. It utilizes …
A male underwear model and a male massage therapist become roommates, and the chaos begins in this 30 minute comedy film… Scene 6 from HAIR RULES rough cut from Eyehustle Entertainment on Vimeo.
~Agatha Christie at her typewriter.I am reminded of the great “queen of crime” Agatha Christie. A great example to me of writing about murder, death, and crime- all while maintaining the innate value we each posses by living. I’ll have to reread a few of her stories as I don’t know off-hand the title of …
Am winding my mind around a script analysis method that I’ve come across in the book “The Power of the Actor” by Ivana Chubbuck. I am on Chapter 4 and am already wishing I’d have known about this method of script analysis years ago! As the actor you take your script and decide what your …