When you spend as much time on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to as many theatre focussed blogs as I do, then you take notice of themes that won’t lie down. There’s been a bit of a stir in the social networking streams over the past couple of weeks, and it’s been about the current
Continue reading ...An image a day is the goal. I didn’t make it as planned, but here are some of the best most evocative memory captures for 2009 in this, the 109th and ultimate blog post of the year for Groundling. See you on the other side!
Continue reading ...Image by sniggy via Flickr Today, October 15 is Blog Action Day around the blogosphere. Those thousands of bloggers who have signed up to write about this year’s theme Climate Change, are sitting down and tapping out individual responses. The idea is simply to spread the word. Maybe it’s preaching to the converted, or singing
Continue reading ...Here’s the latest video response from XPLANE, stimulated I suspect by a terrific slide show Shift Happens that’s been doing the rounds for a couple of years. In fact, I wrote about here just over a year ago. Want a glimpse into how our lives are changing in this digital age?
Continue reading ...I stumbled across this one today – one from the TED Talks series and recorded this year. It’s Natasha Tsakos talking briefly about the relationship between theatre and technology, and performing excerpts from her solo multimedia show ‘Upwake.’ Enjoy; it’s terrific and inspiring.
Continue reading ...It’s been a busy time here. I’ve been tinkering with a new blogsite, and rather than use my production workshop test blog, decided to be brave this afternoon, install a new plug in here and go with the flow. And to prove as Murphy’s law suggests, if things can go wrong, they will – they
Continue reading ...Suddenly it’s apparent how much performing arts touring is being done throughout Australia. Not that we haven’t always had small and large companies on the road most of the time since white settlement – well, maybe a little after white settlement – but it’s really, really visible right now. For the past few weeks, corporate
Continue reading ...An interesting blog post on OurBrisbane.com today – it’s a performing arts blog run by Brisbane playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson – caught my attention. It had me reaching for the keyboard; it was about one of my favourite topics, something I’ve been dealing with for years – voice training, specifically dialect and accent work for performance.
Continue reading ...I followed a reasonably heated Friend Feed debate-thread some days ago. It was initiated by someone complaining about Twitter ‘crap’ appearing in the Friend Feed Home feed and supposedly diverting or undermining ‘meaningful’ threaded conversation; it was clearly a gate-keeper post by someone who felt Friend Feed’s real strength was being diluted by these disembodied
Continue reading ...Most blog owners understand the value of images in posts. Indeed, if you are like me, then you’ll see the right image as a powerful part of a post’s meaning, as well as a vital element in the aesthetic appeal and readability of your blog. I try to use an image in each blog post,
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