Thanks guys!
I actually think that the job I lost with this lovely essay made me give p a bit on theatre. I lost it to a guy with many fewer ideas, but who everyone liked. It was at that point I realized that if you weren't SUPEr talented, that you had to do a lot of schmoozing to work. and I was bad at schmoosing.
But, although I am very good at ordering office supplies (and it is actually one of the mst favorite parts of my job -- spending other people's money! Whoot!), it is not so satisfying.
It is just-- ths beautiful essay-- a whole long paragraph on why I felt a costume designer was as suited to moving in to directing as an actor, because of how close you had to get to the characters while still maintaining a big picture approach.
Does that mean that base eight 31 equals base ten 25? It does, doesn't it? I'm kind of proud of me at this moment. Unless I'm wrong.
ETA: Sophia, my sympathies. I hope you can figure out a way to do what you want and be satisfied creatively.
Also, I skipped. Who had to chop a Cadallac in half. The theatre I work with needs a car and an RV on stage, and want to avoid chop marks, but we only have standard sized doors going in. Is there a good way to chop and weld together so that it does not show?
BABY PANGOLIN!
I'd like to know why you needed to chop a Cadillac in half.
Really? I think once he was
able
to saw a Cadillac in half, it was no longer a question of need, really. Just a question of how close the nearest Cadillac was.
Yep. Three eights plus one equals two tens plus five.
Also, I am so hyperaware of the "discrimination" against costumes in theatre that I am now retroactively angry that I had to learn all the basics of sound, light and set building, but no one else had to learn to use a sewing machine!
At CCM all the undergrads have to go through a costume rotation, as they do at CalArts, or they did when I was a grad student there.
Who had to chop a Cadallac in half
That was me, but it was years ago, in grad school. I just got to be on the destruction team.
I'd like to know why you needed to chop a Cadillac in half.
Missed this. If memory serves we only needed the front half of it on stage. That or we needed to take a chunk out of the middle to make it shorter. We also pulled the engine so that we could put something in there...can't remember what now. All of this was for an opera.
At CCM all the undergrads have to go through a costume rotation, as they do at CalArts, or they did when I was a grad student there.
That's awesome! Maybe it was just the tiny school I went to, and the school I am at now who discount costumes as a sort of "anyone could do this" thing.
If memory serves we only needed the front half of it on stage.
I stand by my supposition that once you can chop a Cadillac in half, need becomes secondary.
