Reading Is One Of The Most Amazing Abilities in the World

After the several block walk with an illiterate woman getting her cigarettes today, I walked on feeling like I had one of the most amazing abilities in the world. She had approached me at the bus stop and asked me to walk with her to read the bus detour signs directing pedestrians through the mile …

Graffiti Art by Paralyzed Hospital Patients

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: …

A Plastic Grin So Big Makes Me Smile

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 A Letter From A Foreign Country Makes Me Smile

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 …

Taking Off Your Clothes: Awkward Moments On Set

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 …

Ten Poems to Change Your Life… Books I’ve Read On-set

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 …