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Just Now: May 2009
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South Africa, in a bit. Monday, May 25, 2009. On the final session of the storytelling lab we took as a part of our applied theatre studies, one of my colleagues - a fellow American - announced that storytelling was the "most African experience" he'd had through the university, and the only training he received here that he could not have gotten at home. Perhaps more importantly though, what elicited this this apologetic performance? I can only speculate. Or Kabuki style of presentation. As a class, ...
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Just Now: January 2009
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South Africa, in a bit. Saturday, January 31, 2009. Lost in the Supermarket. Shortly after dropping off my stuff, I went with Thabo to "Campus Square" - a 5-10 minute drive away - to get groceries and to buy airtime for my program issued South African cell phone. There are three major options for buying groceries: Pick n Pay, Spar, and Woolworths. I blindly opted for Pick n Pay. Before I left I kept telling people, yeah! It's ten rand to the dollar there! Everything is going to be so cheap! I mentioned a...
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Just Now: Voor Trek
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South Africa, in a bit. Monday, March 9, 2009. A blonde haired, blue eyed fantasy of the colonization of South Africa. I was immediately reminded of an exchange between Owen Wilson's and Bill Murray's characters from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Zissou: It's a documentary! It's all really happening! Ned: Well, then damn you for that. Now, before I begin an incredulous tirade, I'll ramble into a tangent:. Recall, the ghost in Hamlet. Charges his son, "Remember me"; Hamlet pleads to Horatio,. Histor...
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Just Now: April 2009
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South Africa, in a bit. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Fun With Zuma (On Display! Today is election day here in South Africa - a holiday of sorts. School is canceled and we had a day off from the show. In preparation for the election,. My friend Salome and I took the completed piece to the Wits School of Arts and hung it off of the second story cat walk. Its new resting place is directly above another art piece on the first floor whose subject is also Zuma. Salome inspecting our work. Wednesday, April 8, 2009.
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Just Now: African Experience
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South Africa, in a bit. Monday, May 25, 2009. On the final session of the storytelling lab we took as a part of our applied theatre studies, one of my colleagues - a fellow American - announced that storytelling was the "most African experience" he'd had through the university, and the only training he received here that he could not have gotten at home. Perhaps more importantly though, what elicited this this apologetic performance? I can only speculate. Or Kabuki style of presentation. As a class, ...
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Just Now: Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time...
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South Africa, in a bit. Friday, March 13, 2009. Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time. Check out Voor Trek. Published out of order - a perhaps less pizza related entry, but none the less, hopefully a decent read). It's about 8:00 PM, I'm sitting in my room, hungry, and I did not make it to Pick N Pay to get groceries today. Now normally I would just hop online and visit Charly/Steve's. For a steaming pizza from just blocks away or Seamless. Flip, flip. And then I spot it: w...
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Just Now: Fun With Zuma (On Display!)
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South Africa, in a bit. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Fun With Zuma (On Display! Today is election day here in South Africa - a holiday of sorts. School is canceled and we had a day off from the show. In preparation for the election,. My friend Salome and I took the completed piece to the Wits School of Arts and hung it off of the second story cat walk. Its new resting place is directly above another art piece on the first floor whose subject is also Zuma. Salome inspecting our work. May 5, 2009 at 5:22 PM.
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Just Now: Perhaps it's a little vain...
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South Africa, in a bit. Monday, May 18, 2009. Perhaps it's a little vain. Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing.". Just wanted to share a few shots from a production of Beckett's. That my friends Kieren and James directed - and that I crewed on: building sets, ushering, and other odd jobs (la-dee-dah). Earlier in the semester I had the opportunity of working on Joseph Heller's Clevinger's Trial. With these fine gentlemen. A revamp of the ash bins. Muzi and Nick; Clov and Hamm.
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Just Now: March 2009
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South Africa, in a bit. Sunday, March 29, 2009. Apartheid Museum: An image. All visitors to the Apartheid museum are familiar with the symbol of its entrance, an image intended to immediately transport the spectator:. This image is more complex; the conjunction of these three symbols creates a dialectic linking the past and present together and forms a challenging depiction of the normative/non-normative binary. What, then, does the symbol White/Non-White. When placed against the international Handicappe...
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