Artists, Puppets, and Fish

First of all, let me say I am thrilled to have recently been referred to as a 'starving artist'. It was possibly the most excitng moment of my life thus far. :) Good times.






Sunday night I attended a puppet play called "A Shoe For Your Foot". It was incredible. Here are a few pictures. They aren't very good 'cause we were in the back and I was too into the production to get up and take pictures. I am so inspired.

The last part (which was too dark to photograph) --my favorite part-- was shadow puppets. Keep your eyes peeled for a shadow puppet show coming probably sometime this week. I'm in pre-production on that project. Anyway, pictures.












This last picture I have is a picture Courtney took of our dead fish before she flushed them away. Yesterday she bought 5 fish and a snail (named Fergo), and today we have one fish and a snail (still named Fergo). The other 4 have died. These two were the first to go. Rest in peace, fishies.

Zoe's Blue Harvest....

.... is the working title of my movie which we shot today. I am so thrilled; 8 days ago I didn't even have a script, bu everything came together really nicely. Now we start in post-production... Here's some pictures from the shoot"

Creative Moments

I haven't written in a while, but it's because I've been inspired and creative. I started a second blog, dedicated to my "Sink Art". Check it out: www.sinkart.blogspot.com.

I'm also getting ready to shoot my first non-school related short film this Saturday. I'm really excited. Laurelin is helping me produce it, and she's been really encouraging about the project. I still need a name, but it's about time, and how children and adults relate differently to it. I hope it's awesome.

There's a lot of ideas floating around in my head, but I'm too busy to write them right now. I'm hoping to take a photography class this semester. I just have to sign up.

My day off went by so quickly. I hang out way too much. And have way too much fun.

Joy to all!

Get your Lebon-on!

Courtney and I had a Lebonese party last night, and it was a huge success. We spent all day making Lebonese food, and had about 20 people ove, and it was all gone. It was a good time for sure.

sweet old ladies

The sweetest little old women ever came into Sage today. She was beautiful, with her white hair and blue eyes and smile wrinkles. She chatted with me and Melissa and told us all about herself. She had eye surgery last month and had just gone back for her check-up and she couldn't believe how many wrinkles she had and she wnated to get a face lift. We thought she was beautiful and told her so. We talked about skin care and the sun, and she was so cute with her floppy straw hat. She told us she used to be a stage actor in the 50s and we talked about CT (she said it's beautiful and she doesn't meet many people from there). It was a marverlous meeting and I hope I get to see her again.

hair

I don't think my hair has been this long for at least 10 years. I really like having long hair.

Some People Are So Nice

I've been working on this project, "The Rejects" (meettherejects.com) for a few weeks now, and we're shooting tomorrow. I'm the prop master, but in true Alisha fashion, I waited until tonight to get all the props. One of the props is a business card. I had a jpeg, but I needed to go to Kinkos and get it printed on cardstock. Other stuff kept coming up, so by 9:30, when I got there, stuid Kinko's was closed. Who's ever heard of a Kinko's closing before midnight? That's so dumb. But, once again, in true Alisha fashion, I decided to make the most of a bad situation by finding something to eat. I headed to the Starbucks next door, where I proceded to complain to the tow very nice people about how dumb Kinkos is, and they listened very compassionately. The guy told me about how you can text message Google from your phone and get info. about stuff (like the next cloest Kinkos), and the lady gave me a piece of rasberry cake on the house. It made my night so much better. Those people are seriously my heros, because they are doing what they can to make the world a nicer place, and not just talking about it. Hooray for them! Hooray for me 'cause I got to meet them! Hooray for Starbucks! Ok, I think I had too much coffee, actually. I'm a tad hyper....

But before I go, I have a funny story. Greg, the line chef at Sage, is this bigg meat and potatoes Southern guy through and through. He cooks the veggies and tofu, but he doesn't eat them. Today he told me that I should make a movie about myself and how much I eat, 'cause I'm always asking him for food. Then he tried to convince me I should start eating sugar cereal and meat and greasy Southern foods so i wouldn't get hungry. I told him I feel better when I eat healthy and he told me it's all in my mind. Silliness.

That's it, dear readers. tomorrow is a crazy day.

This little girl is a camera hog!

I was just looking at all these pictures of me and other people, and I am such a camera hog! I always take up like 2/3 to 3/4 of the picture! You should never take a picture with me.

Fun day, fun pics

Tonight was so much fun!! Christina came over for dinner (we had yummy wraps) and hung out with me and Courtney. Later Laurelyn and LaToya came over and the 4 of us headed over to the Carrborro Greenspace, which is that super cool swimming pool movie venue that I wrote about in a previous post. My friend Melissa whom I work with came with her friend Erin and Gurtrude (Erin's baby), and we had tons of chocolate and some cupcakes and yummy food and everyone there was so laid back. The movie started about an hour late but everyone was cool about it and hing out and talked. Like I said, it was chill: just what I needed, fo' sure.