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And I found out that we are going back to Daylight Savings Curse next weekend until November 1st. Well it was nice while it lasted. *sigh*
I think some people are impressed how fast my brain can work through a problem. Others seem to be afraid of it.
Yesterday I build a puppet-sized wingback chair. Caroline asked me how I learned to do that. I told her that I have re-upholstered chairs both for theater and personal so I know how a chair goes together. I can do most of the geometry in my head so I can get the shape I want. She said, ‘So you could build doll furniture this entire time?’ I copped to it.
I don’t think I could have before I went to Yale and took a set design class under the tutelage of Ming Cho Lee who won a Tony for his set for K2. He taught us how to take what was in our heads and make a visual representation of the set. This included how to make all kinds of shapes and objects with paper, foam core and dowel rods. From that I have used these lessons to create all kinds of things over the years. He expanded for me what I was already doing in my head so I could bring it into this world.
Bill Warfel was my lighting design teacher who taught me the color theory of light and how to make a set look like it was outside or inside or in a cave with one torch. I know how to light for shows and how to light for photography to give the photo the right look. I notice more about the quality of light after taking his course. It has now just become part of how I look at the world.
The project I am working on now would not be possible without the education I have received over the years.
I don’t really talk much about my time at the Yale School of Drama. This May will be 30 years since I graduated. I guess I have been thinking about it more because that’s a long time ago but it feels almost like yesterday. It was a lot of very highs and very lows and it is still a bit of a sensitive subject.
I still surprise people with the fact that I am a YSD graduate. Some where I still have my Yale Rep jacket. It is not something I tout a lot but it is part of my education.
I am a stage manager and will always be one. It is such a part of who I am and even if I am not trotting the boards right now, I still use all the skills I learned in many parts of my life. I can still tape a set design out on the floor of a rehearsal studio. I used it when I worked at Del Rey which made me a dynamite assistant.
It is right up there with my identity as a puppeteer.
I am grateful for my time at the Yale School of Drama the good, the bad, and the seriously ugly.
I think some people are impressed how fast my brain can work through a problem. Others seem to be afraid of it.
Yesterday I build a puppet-sized wingback chair. Caroline asked me how I learned to do that. I told her that I have re-upholstered chairs both for theater and personal so I know how a chair goes together. I can do most of the geometry in my head so I can get the shape I want. She said, ‘So you could build doll furniture this entire time?’ I copped to it.
I don’t think I could have before I went to Yale and took a set design class under the tutelage of Ming Cho Lee who won a Tony for his set for K2. He taught us how to take what was in our heads and make a visual representation of the set. This included how to make all kinds of shapes and objects with paper, foam core and dowel rods. From that I have used these lessons to create all kinds of things over the years. He expanded for me what I was already doing in my head so I could bring it into this world.
Bill Warfel was my lighting design teacher who taught me the color theory of light and how to make a set look like it was outside or inside or in a cave with one torch. I know how to light for shows and how to light for photography to give the photo the right look. I notice more about the quality of light after taking his course. It has now just become part of how I look at the world.
The project I am working on now would not be possible without the education I have received over the years.
I don’t really talk much about my time at the Yale School of Drama. This May will be 30 years since I graduated. I guess I have been thinking about it more because that’s a long time ago but it feels almost like yesterday. It was a lot of very highs and very lows and it is still a bit of a sensitive subject.
I still surprise people with the fact that I am a YSD graduate. Some where I still have my Yale Rep jacket. It is not something I tout a lot but it is part of my education.
I am a stage manager and will always be one. It is such a part of who I am and even if I am not trotting the boards right now, I still use all the skills I learned in many parts of my life. I can still tape a set design out on the floor of a rehearsal studio. I used it when I worked at Del Rey which made me a dynamite assistant.
It is right up there with my identity as a puppeteer.
I am grateful for my time at the Yale School of Drama the good, the bad, and the seriously ugly.
