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wisteria_ pointed her flist to this video of street theater and this Salon article about it, which just brightened my heart. I can't wait to show my mom tomorrow.



from Salon.com, on why people love watching it:

"What they are presenting to the people in that station (and the rest of us, of course) is the ideal of human co-operation. They're showing us the possibility that a bunch of unrelated, unconnected people could spontaneously burst into a song and dance routine in a train station because that's what they all wanted to do and that's what we could do too, if we set our minds to it."

Plus, look how much fun they had preparing for it.


Outside of city parades--which are planned--I've only ever been part of one moment of spontaneous public dancing. ( Read more... )

I drew my favorite scene from Act II in black & gray inks. It's the first portrait I've done in about a year, and the first I've ever done in pens.

Billy and Penny: On The Rise


full picture @ deviant art or the larger wallpaper version with lyrics. Comments/Feedback appreciated!


I cannot believe my eyes,
how the world's
filled with filth and lies [finally growing wise]
And it's plain to see
the evil [the rapture]
inside of me
is on the rise

DevArt: http://rashaka.deviantart.com/art/Pinch-Pot-Narrative-Poetry-84775337



I made this in UCI's intro ceramics class... it was the first project and ended up my best project of the year. I put a lot of thought into the design, and chose the words from my favorite poems.

Outer circle was meant to be a sun design, but it took on an almost petal-like quality. There center is obviously a moon, and rabbits in between. The rabbits took a while... I redrew them several times to make sure I could get a very simple image that portrayed movement and countered the two circles with a trinity/triangle shape.

I've started a sketch of ATLA fanart, which I'm very excited about. I've drawn about half of it now, on what I call "canvas board" for lack of a better term. It appears to be a piece of stiff paper-board or light cardboard that has something canvas-like stretched across it and glued to the surface. So it's like drawing on canvas weave... but the back is hard, instead of pulled over a frame.

I LOVE THIS STUFF.

I need to get more of it. I sort of inherited this blank piece of board when I got a bunch of my late grandmother's painting supplies three years ago; I've no idea how old it is or if you can even buy it anymore (it's got to be at least 10 or 12 years old.) This stuff is great to draw on. It erases easily, and it's much stiffer than paper or a sketchbook. Plus, when I'm done sketching I can just paint right over the thing instead of trying to transfer it.

This is the first fanart I've done in nearly two years. Should be fun. I've never had the discipline to stick with drawing, but I do have a plentiful supply of pastels (high school) and acrylic paint (college), just waiting to be picked up again.