Yesterday was one of those wacky days where all of my jobs collided. I had stuff to write, props to shop for and, of course, a show. Jodi and I were performing as part of The Puppet Playlist, which explores the music of one performer through puppets and cover tunes. Last time it was Tom […]
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Augh! The cuteness, it burns! What was I thinking? Might as well paint a rainbow on its tummy and call it done. Speaking of tummy, I am very pleased with the fact that it’s a beachball and I used the inflation point as the belly-button.
Speaking of paper folding, check out this creation of Matthew Shlian. Very, very nicely done. via Paper Forest: Matthew Shlian amazing paper engineering videos!.
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I needed to make two puppets, a “dancing bear” and a blind man, for a show that Jodi Eichelberger and I are doing at the Puppet Playlist. To begin with, I did a drawing to get relative scale of the things I was building. I’ll usually be a lot tighter with drawings than this, but
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Sure, I have to research props for stage, but I also have to research them for fiction too. For instance my upcoming story in Talebones, is set in England in the 1920s. I needed to find out if cigarette lighters existed by then. Yes, but hand held ones were still a couple of years away.
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Somehow the two weeks that I had off turned into rehearsing for two shows, doing props for a third and finishing an essay, a short story and the SFWA website. Oh yeah, and I have a novel to write. Clearly, my time management involves the need for a TARDIS. And yet I don’t have one.
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Charlie Jane Anders at io9 asked me and three other SF writers to talk about their experiences in the arts. She’s got Audrey Niffenegger, Rudy Rucker and Stephen Stanley each discussing how their art intersects with their writing. It’s interesting to me to see how much we have in common and how much we differ
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Today was fairly quiet. Rob had to work at the winery for the spring harvest, but just a partial day. We wandered up to the farmer’s market and then did a little bit of shopping for a show I’m working on. I tried calling my mom to wish her a happy mother’s day but she
Brief recap of rhubarb pies and dancing bears. Read More »
13:34 Talking to Jodi who wonders if I am twittering. I wasn’t. Now I am. # 15:53 I guess this is a milestone… My ARC is on ebay. That was fast. # 16:30 I’m strangely nervous. I just invited about twenty people to play in SFWA’s new forums as a test run. I wonder how
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While researching champagne for stage, I stumbled across this 1906 article from the NY Times. It’s a fun read if you’re a theater geek like me. EATING and drinking on the stage,” remarked the chronic theatregoer the other night, “always bores me when I have dined well and tantalizes me when I haven’t; but whenever
As an antidote to the entrails post, you can swing by AMC to take a look at my column on mothers in Fantasy film. I don’t know about you, but my mom is fantastic all on her own. Mother’s Day is here and lest you need reminding, none of us would exist were it not
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To make entrails takes very few supplies. Your shopping list looks like this. Unlubricated condoms KY Jelly Food coloring Press and Seal wrap Fake blood Start by filling the condoms with KY Jelly. You’ll need about one tube of KY per condom. Add a little bit of food coloring, but don’t worry about mixing it
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One of the interesting side effects of having a story nominated for a Hugo is that everyone and their cousin posts reviews of them. So, I haven’t been linking to them because it would just get silly. One popped up on my feedreader today from Best Science Fiction Stories. I haven’t run across this site
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If you wonder what I’ve been working on recently, besides the usual intestines and things, I’ve had several projects for SFWA. I’m very pleased that one of them, our new volunteer management system, is now live. You might recall that when I ran for secretary, I felt that the volunteer management was one of the
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