Pastel Candyfloss

One of our drafting assignments in Theater Graphics was to draft a stool in isometric perspective. It couldn’t be just any stool, it had to be a specific one of our class stools. From the beginning, the examples of how to do this looked like a summoning ritual… On the night before it was due, someone drew a Demon Stool on the white board complete with a D&D story. The damn stool drove us all insane.

The notes for my stool read: Stool should be carved in soap stone. Painted in iridescent paint and then coated in glitter. Will need to support the weight of a small puppy, like a toy poodle.

I’ve been playing Persona 3 on my PS2 and finally made friends with Bebe, who is the link to the Home Economics club. I was insanely amused to find that I could actually sweatshop sew in my video game just like I was doing in class this last semester. Cute little sewing characters! 

Steel cube, welded and then ground smooth. This was a construction project for my Scenic Fundamentals class. Everyone worked in partners, and got to choose their material to create a cube. Worked with Michael, which was awesome and I hope I get to partner with him again sometime! =) They decided to keep our cube for future examples, so neither of us got to take this one home. I learned that welding is not my forte yet, but I’m good at welding holes into things! I’ll have to get some practice time in this semester so I cure myself of that tendency. 

Texture Samples for modeling from Theater Graphics, coated with mod podge and then covered with washes of scenic paint.

Texture Samples for modeling from Theater Graphics, coated with mod podge and then covered with washes of scenic paint.

Some images of the inside of the Costume Shop at Cornish Seattle. Amazing dress forms, rows of sewing machines, piles of material, drawers of notions. In short, heaven!

Costume Design photos on the wall in the last picture are from Summertime which we’ve just completed all the costumes for, and is starting this week!

My completed model staircase for Theater Graphics. It stands about 3” tall, made of foam core, bristol board, copper wire, and solder. My first experience with a soldering iron, and I still need a lot more practice, so I’ll probably be getting one for home in the near future. This project made me want to start making doll houses, which I’ll have to look into when I’m not in the middle of mid terms!

City of Angels has been one of my favorite movies since it first came out in 1998. I love the soundtrack, the character and costume design for the angels, the directing. It can be pretty cheesy at times, so it’s more of a guilty pleasure to be watched alone. It was created as an American remake of the 1987 German film Wings of Desire, which for all intents and purposes is a much better movie and features Peter Falk (Columbo) playing himself.

This screen cap is from one of my favorite scenes. Nicholas Cage’s character is an angel who is invisible in the scene, and Meg Ryan’s character is thinking about him. He can read her mind and it’s his first experience with lust. The expression on his face is pure torture, and I love it! This entire scene was beautifully directed and played.

“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.” - Seth

“The little girl asked me if she could be an angel.”
“They all want wings.”
“I never know what to say.”
“Tell them the truth. Angels aren’t human. We were never human.”
“What if I just make her a little pair of wings out of paper?”
- Seth and Cassiel