Week 7 and 7b ucbt class with shannon

Getting better at this thing. Shannon this week: “You guys are going to learn one more thing then you’re done learning.” That thing was WALK-ONS, which was total fun and a release valve for all these nervous scenes. I’m getting better, though I still initiate better than I respond. I don’t know what the hell is going on when I respond.

So far no one has caught on to the fact that I DO NOT remember stories about my life almost ever. When we do monologues- that was week 6 and on- I am total panic of coming up with something. I have so far, but there aren’t many left in my noggin.

New Strip

New strip up!- it’s been a post-Mocca haze.
Here

Week 6 improv class

ok so week 6 of improv class, we the students hired a coach to help us out a bit and she rocked. Tara Copeland was generous and firm- the perfect combination, and we I think were ready to be pushed into integrating our “skills” better. Big take-away from this session: be emotionally open. Every scene got better, especially mine, when would express a real feeling- something we really were feeling at the time. I have no acting training, and this is hard (I think if I really expressed the main thing I was feeling it would be “I’m freakin terrified” over and over again. Guess I’ll try to find a secondary emotion in there somewhere.

Seriously, this is ultimately why I took this class- to be in the moment, open and ready to express oneself. The thing that I want so bad is so hard and scary- this moment thing, this present-ness, this alive on the planet. Fuck yeah!

Beckett in Marketing

“Beckett may not have invented Buzz Marketing but he the first to benefit from it…”

From Harper’s this week

post mocca break

By the way, I am in a post MOCCA break. Cleaning my house. Teaching, waiting to finish the strip book.

Week 6 at UCBT

Ok I am fried from another awesome class at UCBT, and much improved from last week, but fried nonetheless.

This week, after some warm-up exercises where we play around with things we “believe” - announcing them, then later announcing opposite beliefs- we tried to create characters whose beliefs might be absurd or at least different from ours. It brought out good characters. My character didn’t have a belief as much as a fact: she was “born at home.” I keep being given scenes where I am a child, and so my child was very home-schooled, granola-y. She made a poop and announced that it was natural.

Next we played animals- I was a saint bernard, and played a helpful husband, being watched by a crazy wife.

This week was more fun, but I am still a deer in the headlights.

HUTCH OWEN at MOCCA

Ok! Tom will be at Mocca, giving a slideshow on Saturday morning, with TIM KREIDER and JEN SORENSEN.

I’ll have a table and will be selling a new preview of my stuff.

Kick ass and see you there!

Week 5 of UCBT Improv class, in which my brain melts down

Well week 5 of my improv comedy class came and went and I hang my head in shame at the short-circuiting of my brain from that day. I think it was lack of food.

Things we covered-
status, walking, character from friends, matching behavior, like 5 other things. I’ll write more later.

Previous 2 weeks: object and environment work. creating rooms, shaping objects, etc.

Polly Frost’s first stills

Every week I have the joy of tutoring the amazing Polly Frost in Flash animation. She is making this sick, crazy, weird, funny movie called Zombie U.
Here’s a link to her first post about it.

When Michelle gets her website up, I’ll show you her amazing fly battle movies…

Slideshow this saturday at Rubulad

OK Check it out: T

I will be doing a slide show at RUBILAD or whatever the heck it is called THIS SATURDAY!

DETAILS:

Rubulad is proud to present, on Saturday, June 3rd:
Flower Power Mower: a psychedelicious confunktion

With your DJs:
a bunch of djs

Live music by:
a bunch of bands

In the Cabaret Room:
“Carousel” - Cartoon slide shows & other projected pictures,
presented by a glittering array of artists, performers, graphic
novelists & other characters.  Hosted by R. Sikoryak.
Featuring: Leela Corman, Tom Hart, Julie Klausner, Doug Skinner,
Jim Torok and R.S.

Scintillating musical performance by Adira Amram

Cello by Brent Arnold of Invincible Hummingbird

Plus:
Light Circus of Norm Francoeur
Food by Vicious Delicious
Sweets by Brownie Points

Brought to you by McBoing Boing and Mahssa.

Dress: ecstatic floral

10 pm doors. 11:00 show. 10 beans.

Rubulad Home Base: 338 Flushing Ave., bet. Classon & Taaffee
L train to Bedford Avenue > B61 bus on Driggs to Flushing Ave (10 mins) >
left under BQE > Rubulad’s on your right just past the gas station *OR* J /
M / Z to Marcy Ave > walk along Rev. Dr. GE Taylor Blvd > turns into
Williamsburg St West at Flushing > left under BQE.

Or G Train to Flushing and follow address numbers.

Note: The B61 bus runs from Greenpoint to Red Hook through Dumbo and
Downtown Brooklyn. The B57 bus will take you to and from Bushwick, fast.