Technology empowering paralyzed to create art using only their eye movement. EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower graffiti writers and artists suffering from ALS. An insightful innovation that captures eye movement and lets people express themselves in real time. To know more about The EyeWriter, log on to eyewriter.org. Read more: …
Beautiful. 2,000 people videoed themselves singing alone, and they were all put together to make a virtual choir. Voices from 58 countries. I ♥ this. Here’s what a single voice sounded like: And here’s what it sounds like when he put the virtual choir all together:
Saw this sculpture “Panda” by Takashi Murakami while visiting the MIA art museum. It makes me happy. It’s made of fiberglass with an antique Louis Vuitton trunk and wooden pedestal. It measures 100 1/2 by 65 by 43 inches. It’s tall! Was executed in 2003. It sold for $385,600
Opening the post office box and fishing out letters with stickers from places like “Luftpost” & “Deutsche Post” makes me want to tear into my mail while standing in front of the walls of locked PO Boxes. But I don’t. There’s something delectable about waiting until I am back home and sitting at my writing …
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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 …
I found two cats today at the bus shelter while waiting for my bus. They were mewing like mad and shivering as they obviously aren’t outdoor cats. So I put them in my pockets and carried them home. Thing is that I can’t keep ’em due to allergies. Does anyone know someone that would like …
For February’s “Books I’ve Read On Set” I picked Ten Poems To Change Your Life. I came across this book while meandering through the shelves of the library. The title lives up to it’s name. (I hate over hyped-titles) It’s from this book that I came across my all time favorite lines from a poem …
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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, …