"The aim of life is to live, and to live means
to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” –Henry Miller
My directing professor, Scott Ripley, read this
quote in class yesterday. It
got me to thinking: am I living aware?
And to my utmost potential?
Am I living purposefully?
This blog will help me explore those questions. I’ll use it to
assess the discoveries I make day-by-day in my acting and directing classes,
singing lessons, and play rehearsals.
I will use it to chart the progress I make in preparing myself for my future artistic
career in Los Angeles or New York City.
Also, this blog will function as a medium for
expressing my thoughts on recent plays I've seen and films I've watched. I'll include my observations and critiques
on actors' performances, directorial choices, themes, imagery, quality of the
sound and lighting design, etc.
The purpose of my blog is to connect my real-life
artistic experiences to the observations I make in watching professional
theater and film.
I presume my blog will be most interesting to
theater and/or film enthusiasts, but will try to make it interesting to non-theater/film
addicts, as well. My hope is to
give artists and non-artists alike a new appreciation for theater and
film. And to learn a lot, myself,
along the way.
My aim this semester is to be more aware: to be more aware of myself, of
my potential, of my strengths and limitations. Also, I aim to be more aware of the industries I hope to
break into. By critiquing
professional work and assessing how it relates to my own, I'm hopeful that this
blog will help me as I grow as an artist and as a theater and film connoisseur.
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