Pleasure for the Empire

Here was the setup of the puppet set for scene two.  The Queen of Mars and the author. Picture by Irene Skricki. 

A lovely couple days puppetting. Here we are setting up the puppet stage designed and built by Jarrod DiGiorgi.  Do you want to watch almos...

Today I'm off to shoot puppets in fabulous Bath, PA. Well, the actual shooting of puppets doesn't begin until Sunday but we're o...

Okay nerds, listen up. Oh wait, I'm writing this to myself. Um.  My modification of a meme. Nerd thing number one. For theater sound ner...

I accidentally bought a collective when I meant to get a cyclic. I was tired of how all joysticks in movies look like PC gaming joysticks. W...

Tying Viol Frets . I thought it might be amusing to try with my electric cello. Convenient bird is convenient.  Soviet police training films...

Mirror is a plugin which faffs with the reported latency to a DAW to do reverse effects. I dunno if it's actually that useful, I think ...

This is an excellent Fatoush salad recipe. I made it with pita that was too big, I should have chopped the pita up more than I did. Next ti...

 Cleaning up the ol' desktop of extra images. Let's start with Soul Train.  Two sleepy baby hippos. Sleepy little foxes. I love heli...

 I've had a bunch of setbacks in making an electric cello. So now I have won a bid on a broken, cheap electric cello. It's a Celio e...

 Double harmonic scale.  Double harmonic scale. Ableton I dunno. Marc told me that lots of Broadway use Ableton in the pit now. It's fun...

The following text is excised from my PhD thesis based on notes from my committee. It's all about the production of our films over Covid...

 I'll just leave these here. This is my modification of this meme. I think this meme is hilar. I dunno what this is or what's up wit...