These videos were a real seat-of-the-pants affair. A few days before the festival Eliot Duhan, EDO’s frontman, put out a call to anyone who had a video camera to come on out and shoot footage of the band. I charged up both of my cameras– the Panasonic and my old… Continue reading
This was the first promo I did for Curio. The coverage of Twelfth Night had worked out pretty well, considering what a seat-of-the-pants thing it was, and doing this promo was the first workout I had with the new Panasonic hi-def camera. Oleanna is a very intense play, and it practically… Continue reading
This wasn’t as much of a quickie as the other promos. Y’see, this adaptation of the Iliad is a play that Curio actually owns, so this promo’s intended to sell the play to high schools and other parties that might want to stage it, or bring the Curio people in to perform… Continue reading
The story on this one is… well, it was one of those situations where we just grabbed the actors before they rehearsed, sat’em down, interrogated them, and distilled down stuff that we hope is amusing. At this stage, the rehearsals had just started, the costumes were still being made, and the… Continue reading
Sarah Ruhl’s play Eurydice is a play that set designers love: it gives them a chance to depict an underworld that can be as whimsical, as abstract, or as menacing as they want. It’s also a lovely play, written with genuine poetry, about a father’s love for his daughter, and… Continue reading
Here is Curio Theater’s 2010 production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. At this point, the only thing I had to work with was a Sony TRV700, a standard-def video camera. I’d gotten good results out of it for my little personal video Clark Park, June 2007, and I guess that impressed Kyle Cassidy… Continue reading
Equipment Used: 3M Safest Stripper, Denatured Alcohol, Stripping Pads, Steel Wool, Brass-Bristle Brushes, Dental Picks, Wood and Putty Chisels, Putty Scrapers, Methylene Chloride, Mineral Spirits, Minwax Gel Stain, Minwax Stainable Wood Filler The Beginning When I bought my house, in August of 1998, I found three matched pieces of furniture… Continue reading
A book review by Brian Siano In Consilience E.O. Wilson, one of our most accomplished scientists, calls for the unification of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. He draws from a variety of disciplines, including population genetics, economics, aesthetics, cognitive science, developmental biology, history and politics. At… Continue reading