What we’ve all been waiting for! Our good friend Conor McGuigan takes his popular stage show characters to video! Behold!
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Behold! Scranton – Episode 1 – YouTube.
Behold! Scranton – Episode 1 – YouTube.
“This is a young group, and like most people their age, they are a hyper-connected crowd. This hyper-connectivity isnt just online either – their ties to the community have let them pull together both the resources and the fans they need to put together several impressive shows.”
I LOVE almost every single one of these pictures —
most of them are come from one of Sandi Vincent’s amazing collections on flickr —
and want desperately to be sucked back in artifical time to lounge in a la la land furnished accoring to this dictionary.
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A beauty from Amanda Palmer.
This really resonates.
Working on not just saying, but also believing that “i am exactly the person that i want to be.” -ag
gorgeous.
I love how so many of them look like “regular people.” you know, as opposed to models.
some great photography as well. artists are obviously attracted to the aesthetic.
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Important issues to consider for artists of an occupational mind set. Making the art financially accessible, alone, is not enough to get it into the world view of our most deprived citizens.
And it is often foundations created and run by the one percent that provide the funding that allows artistic institutions/organizations to offer programming at discounted ticket prices.
Government funding for the arts has almost all but vanished and so artists are faced to directly create a larger market for their work among the less affluent – without loss of integrity and support to take potentially unpopular risks. Sigh.
For Mr. Laude and many other protesters the main issue regarding performing arts institutions is not inaccessibility but insularity. In other countries, he pointed out, the government and society work together to include arts directly in the lives of citizens.
Balcony Seats Can Help Economic Inequalities in Arts – NYTimes.com
I was so excited to finish this project and deliver the commissioned order, I didn’t get around to shooting an image of the results.
Here is a second and part of a third series I’ve made since then — pictured here drying after being sprayed with matte acrylic sealer.
In the end, I went with the acrylic gel transfer process because the textured vanilla tiles I preferred the look and feel off were not waterslide decal friendly.
I had, in fact, almost given up on the decal paper, when I got a hold of a couple of white smooth tiles from my sister. These were much easier to slide the decals on to without losing or marring too much of the ink from the paper in the process.
While I used actual cork to back the commissioned tiles, I was fortunate to also inherit an amazing bolt of cork upholstery fabric from my sister that makes for a softer, more appealing, yet just as effective backing. (I forget to take a picture of the reverse, I’ll try to remember to update later.)
I’m hoping to make these available for sale at my Etsy shop soon — both individually and as sets, made to order — as the commission fee barely covered the cost of my supplies and it would be nice to make at least a little profit off all the time and labor that went into the research and development of this project. Hopefully, there will be an interest. I personally think they’re pretty awesome.
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Printed eight choices on waterslide decal inkjet paper this morning.
Coated the prints with the fixative from the decal company and left them to dry.
I’m guessing it’s going to be easier to peel these from the paper backing – we’ll find out for sure tonight.
I studied an early, cardstock-bound copy of this book while working on my NeoVaudeville grant presentation back in 2009. It’s a little fact-heavy but boasts a few memorable anectdotes and is a worth $13 for those interested in vaudeville and theatrical history –especially if they’re from Scranton.
I’m personally curious to read the last chapter — as one of the few journalists covering theater in Scranton for the past decade (as well as consistantly working on the production end in my freelance life). and I’ve never met or spoken with the author as far as I can remember but according to her bio she has participated in local cemetery theater productions.
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“If You Can Play Scranton is a theatrical history of America as seen through the famous performers who came to Scranton, Pennsylvania. It discusses performances by the best known actors and actresses of the tragic and comic stage, ethnic performers, vaudevillians, musical comedy, concert, orchestra and band performers from 1871-2010. At the turn of the 20th century, Scranton was one of the most famous try-out towns for legitimate stage productions. The sophisticated taste of its audience, created by extensive exposure to world renown talent, continues to this day.”
via If You Can Play Scranton: A Theatrical History, 1871-2010 by Nancy McDonald: Excerpt.
Gregarious Expressions 