Marginalia – Page 119

Moving Postcards

7 April, 2008
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Blogging, Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

I’m on holiday, so I’ve been playing with Animoto again today. I produced a short animated postcard on life around my place, here on a ridge in southern Queensland. It’s called Yarrawonga, which in the language of the indigenous people means ‘place of trees.’ I took the shots from the Project 366 set I’ve created on Flickr.

Animoto, Art and Creativity, Coolpix L16, Flickr, great tools, holiday, imagination, iPhone, Nikon, Nikon D40, photography, Project 366, Videos and Sound Files, YouTube

Production Week: Run #4 and Sitzprobe

6 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: fr1zz It’s 11 days till opening and 10am on Sunday morning. Other people are out there having the requisite leisurely brunch and reading the papers at any one of the many coffee shops in the city. We’re in the rehearsal studio warming up bodies to Kylie Minogue dance music. It’s then over to

Acting Notes, Cabaret, music director, orchestra, sitzprobe, warmup

Week 10: Production Week Begins

5 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Gird the loins for production week. Here we go. Day 1 for the acting company in the rehearsal studio, and it’s another run. This is what I want and need right now. I’ve written before here about losing momentum in an extended rehearsal period, and we’ve arrived at the time to get the arc of

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret