Gospel Choir Concert!

So UCSC Gospel Choir is having their performance tomorrow night at the Stevenson Event Center at 8 o'clock! It's going to be really fun and you should all join if you are able to!

Here is a the facebook event link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=86369204437&ref=nf

Hope to see you there!

Laurel

Sketches - Alice

SO my internet stopped working last night and i wasn't able to post these yesterday. Hope tht's alright.

Alice Glass

Exam Topics - Alice

Notes For Final

June 2, 2009

Intro to Design

Company Hierarchy and Static categories (Howard)

Metapatterns (Volk)
The Door (Aronson

Images versus Sign (States)

Spectacle/media (Aronson)

Metaphor (Borges)

       The exchange of agency. “All the world is a stage.” Use of complex metaphor, “stopping my woods” is good e           example.

George Tsypin's use of steel and glass (Aronson – the stage is a dangerous machine)

Ideograph (Taymor)

       a gesture that relates of character, ie the Lion King

Mechanics (Taymore)

The double image: showing off the mechanics (Taymor - the book “playing with fire”)

       TED lecture series on YouTube for Taymor lecture

Space in space (Svoboda)

      The ceiling the floor the back wall and the prescinium arch

The formal theater (rob wilson)

       “Absolute Wilson” book

Anti-illusionistic design (Appia)

Color projection color recession 

       blue recedes, red projects

1.2.3. point perspective

Complementary colors

Forced perspective

       check out stampede video on blog

Light and shadow 

       1. specular 2. specular-edge transfer 3. shadow-edge transfer 4. shadow.

Motivated lighting: Identifying the source

       In your lighting design you want to have a clear indication of where the lighting is coming from on stage. 

Elevation section and plat

Ecstatic truth (Herzog)

       Check out blog, Minnesota declaration: sometimes you have to stretch the truth in order to tell what the truth  r             really is. 

Theater of the oppressed (Boal)

       is it theater, or is it not theater. 

Collaboration

Ishioka's creed: revolutionary, original, timeless

       Look at her work and reflect on how her work could be these three 

        things.

Richard Foreman's set design (Aronson)

       “What god is not” he makes the conventions of theater much 

        more.

Live Design

Live Design

Theme: The History of Dining

--- dining hall noises going on in the background.

---Dress in black shirt and jeans.

Roles:

1) animal-Crystelle

hunters- everyone else (one person with blanket)

2)four parents- Cody, deena, Crystelle, Laurel

kids- Alice, Lily, Tiffany, Melanie, Jenny

3)table- Melanie and Lily

butler-Cody

classy diners- Alice, laurel

cooks- Deena and Crystelle

4)tables-Melanie and Lily

waiter-Cody

diners-Alice, Laurel, Jenny and Tiffany

cooks-Deena, Crystelle

5)Everyone

6)Family dinner- grab at least three audience members.

Scenes

1) cave men: hunting animal. Eat. Fire. Start off stage right. Enter. Someone comes crawling out as an animal. Throw arrows. Kill. Gather around. Center stage. Throw blanket over. Warm our hands as if it were a fire. We start eating. Person rolls out of blanket and we place the blanket down flat.

2) picnic :Stooping next to/sitting next to one another. Sharing food.

3) butlers/service/bourgeois dining & kitchen scene:One person as table. Two people sitting for food. One butler. Two chefs.Dialogue between dining people. And dialogue between the chefs. Kitchen scene on side. Chaos. Butler going back and forth between kitchen and dining room

4) restaurant: Two people as tables. One more table with three people. Two cooks and a waiter. Dialogue between waiter and diners.

5) Last supper/ family dinner:Last supper- posing. End people holding cloth. Break from pose. Two or three people go into audience to gather people to join with us. Two people spread the cloth out for a table. Sharing conversation is improvised.

Dialogue

1)cave- grunts. Pointing. Passing food. Hunched over/squatting. Chowin’ down.

2)Picnic- four people sitting down. And five people “playing”. (jump rope, catch, etc)

3)Butlers/ classing dining

Diner- “This briquette is cold…”

Butler-“yes sir. Right away sir” walks away

Diners- “It was wonderful seeing you at the opera last Saturday evening?

“Oh yes indeed, you looked marvelous darling”

“And how did you enjoy it?”

“It was dreadful. Absolutely dreadful.”

4)Resteraunt

Waiter- “Can I take your order?”

Diner- “I’ll have the steak.”

“I’ll have the penne arrabiatta”

chef- “orders up!”

waiter- goes to the other table to serve them their food.

5)last supper/family dinner

last supper- memorize positions. Freeze. Sit at the end of the stage.

Family dinner- go into audience to gather people. Two people holding ends of blanket. Improv dialogue.

If you guys have questions just post them here and hopefully we'll be able to sort everything out!

-Laurel

Last Supper Image

Not the original, but you all get the idea of the poses.

Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailor

In theaters June 18th 2010. Enjoy!

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/29/must-watch-first-early-teaser-trailer-for-toy-story-3/

Lily

Dolphin

I drew this one day during class. This is one of the dolphins on the box of my drawing pencils.

Lily

Metapatterns (reading)

"Out there, in the competitive ecosystems of nature, patterns that 'work' by virtue of their success in specific lifestyle contexts survive to replicate themselves onward into the future, while patterns that don't work, over enough time, terminate." (The Use of Metapatterns for Research into Complex Systems of Teaching, Learning, and Schooling, p6)

This quote stood out to me because it reminded me of Darwin's theory of evolution of 'survival of the fittest.' It was interesting how the authors compared metapatterns we see in everyday life to the biological sciences. Being a biology major, I've never realized that a relationship between metapatterns and biology even existed. It made sense as the authors described in the article however, that evolution is a form of pattern. Nature evolved itself in the way it did because it had been the more successful path to ensure the survival of life on earth. Replication, gene mutations, and the convergence and divergence of other factors that 'worked' all contributed to the evolution of different present day species. Similarly, there is a large variety of different types of metapatterns, and the ones that exist today were the ones that 'worked' well compared to others that may have been unsuccessful. Therefore, their existence and survival greatly depended on their level of success, just like the concept behind evolution.

Lily

Readings!

So just a reminder, I know we have all been really busy this week, but we all have to put up more notes on the readings, myself included. Otherwise we're stuck with that "C" grade on our reading notes. So good luck and see you guys this weekend sometime if not sooner around campus!

-Laurel

Even more photos!

Zen Indeed..

I really enjoyed the "Zen" tea party even though I wasn't able to stay for too long.. Props to the entire Buffet Productions for coming up with such an excellent idea!! Thanks for the peppermint tea Deena, and thanks to everyone who brought snacks and other stuff. I'm glad that some passer-byres actually took their time to stop by. Hope everyone had a good time out there.. And good thing it was such a nice day out, that was pretty awesome :)

Lily

Even More Tea Party Pictures

Dear All,

If you have any trouble with any of these pictures let me know!

Lily

More Tea Party Photos

Crystelle, 

Feel free to delete these after you're done using them. 

There's quite a few!

-Alice