Performing underwater **NERDIRIFIC!!**

Fefu and her friends by Maria Irene Fornes

Cecilia: We must be part of a community, perhaps 10,100, 1000. It depends on how strong you are. ...A common denominator must be reached. Thoughts, emotions that fit all, have to be limited to a small number. That is, I feel, the concern of the educator--to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves...Otherwise the unusual in us will perish. As we grow we feel we are strange and fear any thought that is not shared with everyone."

The play was written in 1977 and set in 1935. It speaks to me in relation to the battle for connection to other people, women specifically. Connection to a female community.

My brain thinks of facebook, social networking. Somehow I feel the feelings are parallel.

Improve Everywhere at the New York Public Library

Delight in the Appaulling

I have a maniacal love for ads that today are just SO wrong.

http://weburbanist.com/2010/05/18/old-school-vintage-ads-were-glad-are-gone/

Wonderful Game: Record Tripping

http://www.recordtripping.com/

Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)

Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)

I saw this guy on TED. He talks about how we can't shelter our kids as there are dangerous things worth learning to do.

I have no kids, so I don't understand the fear a parent has for their children, but I think kids should learn these things.

I love this....

"Why Don't You Love Me" - Beyoncé from Beyoncé on Vimeo.

Pilobolus

Amazing Photos: Dance around the World

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/dance_around_the_world.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/dance_around_the_world.html

BWW Special Feature: 99 and Under the Radar, Indie Theatre's Movers and Shakers 2010/04/09

BWW Special Feature: 99 and Under the Radar, Indie Theatre's Movers and Shakers 2010/04/09

Authenticating Eileen Reviewed!!

"...every once and awhile a group executes the experiential production in such a way that it is entirely effective and thought-provoking. Tin Lily's Authenticating Eileen does this with intelligence and panache."

old friends

I had a dream last night I was in an attic with an old friend. We sat across from each other cross legged and there was a deep aching to embrace. But as one moved toward the other, the distance was maintained, our bodies levitating away from each other and neither of us could penetrate the space. There was a point or fulcrum between us that we both revolved around but couldn't move closer to. The aching remained but the distance was accepted as appropriate. We stared. I felt I was holding back tears so as not to spoil the time. Symbols appeared permanently burned at the skin in the hollow below our necks but indecipherable. Perhaps this was the reason for the separation, but I didn't know.

I woke with a profound sadness and the feeling I had done something wrong. But the show I am working on, daily schedule, and the rush of the present quickly regained my emotions.

nature by Numbers

I remember being in love with this film they showed in elementary about how nature and math were seamless. i never really liked math, because it was just pointless calculation in school. But that film made it something that really existed. Filmmaker Cristóbal Vila produced this short animation, called Nature By Numbers, which shows examples of how mathematical relationships such as the Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio, and the Delaunay triangulationcan be found in the natural world.

Enjoy!

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

Authenticating Eileen Opens on Friday!!

Portraying Lesbian Parents

Portraying Lesbian Parents

Authenticating Eileen Opens March 26

A Song from "Authenticating Eileen" #1 from Karim Muasher on Vimeo.