This is a sample from a longer, as-yet-untitled ambient video piece I’ve been working on for a while. Let’s begin by saying that the music is by Chris Zabriskie, who’s made a lot of his excellent ambient music available at the Free Music Archive. It’s under a Creative Commons license… Continue reading
This was a fun project. Once again, I have to thank Kyle Cassidy for asking me to shoot video during a photo shoot. The Dead Milkmen, a Philly punk band which had hits with “Punk Rock Girl,” “Stuart,” and “Bitchin’ Camaro” (which got some play on Orange is the New Black this… Continue reading
Took me long enough, but the Romeo and Juliet project is completed. I’ll be spending the next few weeks getting them out the door for the Kickstarter supporters. I’m not sure if or how I’ll be getting copies to people who weren’t part of the Kickstarter project, but I have lots… Continue reading
In Summer 2014, Shakespeare in Clark Park collaborated with Team Sunshine Performance Corporation on an epic production of Henry IV— epic because they assembled a cast of 100 people to perform a massive battle scene at the end of the play. For the first time, an SICP production would utilize the… Continue reading
It’s happy news here at Siano Heights, because the Kickstarter to fund the Romeo and Juliet project has succeeded! Not only did we meet our goal of $3500, we surpassed it, and reached the awe-inspiring heights of $5100! I’ll try to post Progress Reports on this website. For now, my… Continue reading
A few days ago, I decided to play with the video materials I have for Romeo and Juliet. I’d just launched the Kickstarter, and had a strong initial response, so I figured I ought to show something as a kind of reward. So here is a very rough draft of the… Continue reading
As of March 5, the Kickstarter for my Romeo and Juliet project is live! Please, go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324288631/romeo-and-juliet-1 and contribute! West Philadelphia’s Curio Theater began its 2013-14 season with William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Since the season was oriented on issues of gender, many of the roles in the play were switched… Continue reading
These have been sitting on YouTube for a long time, but we can finally publish them. As with the Rodney Anonymous photo shoot, Kyle was shooting photos for an upcoming book by Joan of Dark titled Geek Knits: Over 30 Projects for Fantasy Fanatics, Science Fiction Fiends, and Knitting Nerds,… Continue reading
As of November 23rd, the Doll’s House project is as done as we can make it. If you want to read about the production details, read this blog post.) We managed to upload the DVD image file to Discmakers, and the Blu-Ray file will take a bit longer. We expect… Continue reading
As I write this (Nov. 20,. 2013), we’re into the home stretch on A Doll’s House, a filmed version of a play directed by Josh Hitchens and performed at the Ebeneezer Maxwell Mansion. I spent yesterday learning enough Photoshop trickery to develop a set of navigational menus for the DVDs… Continue reading