Quote of the Day: on the actor’s preparation

4 March 2010

Read the whole article from Andrew Utter at the Mother of Invention Acting School blog.  The post is a review of a new book on acting by Howard Fine: Fine on Acting – A Vision of the Craft.
* “Your central responsibility as actors is to affect and to be affected by, that is your job.  [...]

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Quote of the Day: on social media and your arts company

3 March 2010

Worth a complete read but here is the nub of the matter :
No matter your geographic focus, social networks are fundamentally about forming a community and having conversations. Therefore, having a clear purpose in mind when you choose your networks is essential.
We’ve all heard the adage “the medium is the message.” It means that the [...]

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Arts Education – what should we teach and how?

2 March 2010

There’s a Twitter discussion happening right now hashtagged #artsed .  The hashtag acts as a search key for tweets that have anything to do with arts education, but this particular thread of the discussion is focussing on the issue of professional training for artists – more particularly theatre artists, and especially actors.  [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

28 February 2010

This is the first posting using Tweet Tools weekly digest option. First reaction … my goodness, but I do tweet a lot! Second … a useful tool to archive your tweets – if you need such a thing, and third observation … the little hashtag at the end takes you to the original [...]

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Line please …

23 February 2010

A delightful little movie blooper reel out of the 1936 movie archives. Nothing much changes … not even the way actors react to a lines breakdown. Enjoy!

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Tribal Markings: hashtags

22 February 2010
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I found myself explaining the purpose of hashtags this morning on my Facebook page.  I’d posted to my news feed about a livestreaming event happening later in the day, with a reminder that hashtagging it would enable the conversation to be tracked.  Someone asked what a hashtag was.  Oh, how easily we forget that [...]

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