7:30 am.
11pm - Greeting committee. Time for bed little monsters!
Hope you have enjoyed a look into a day of a costume design student. We hit Tech this weekend! Whee and uffda!
Xoxo,
Anna
Showing posts with label Cornish College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cornish College. Show all posts
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Photo an Hour - Costume Load In!
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Sunlight through Fog
Today Seattle is covered in fog. The air hints of the fall crispness yet to come. Weather like this makes me reflect on life, not really sure why, but it does. This September will be the last time I go to college. It will be my last orientation, my last few classes, the last time I get grades. I don't know quite how to feel about it. Certainly there is the feeling of elation, I'm finally going to get that pretty piece of paper with some calligraphy on it that tells the world I have spend over $90,000 and am now a completely qualified human being. Then there is the apprehension. How am I going to make a living? How am I going to afford anything after this? I need a car, and insurance for that. I need a heart monitor, and insurance for that. The list is endless. I know I will make it all work out, I always do. I just have to sit a worry for a spell first.
When one is a child, we spend all our time wishing we were older, bigger, stronger, faster. Wishing ourselves into adulthood. When one is an adult, you wish life were slower, simpler, quieter. Wishing ourselves back to the peaceful simplicity that is most childhoods. You don't worry about repaying your college debt, or buying a house. These things simply are there for you. It is the beautiful, dreadful thing of being responsible. Or worrying over where the money is going to come from to pay for this or that. You can sit around wishing your whole life away.
I'm not wishing I was a child any more, nor am I wishing away being an adult. Today I do wish I knew what the future held. I wish I could peer into it's depths and know where I'm going next or what I am doing after this chapter. But then, what fun would life be if we knew everything to come? Yeah, we might be able to be more prepared or something, but still. You'd end up dreading things rather than being elated to have them.
So I sit at my desk and watch the crows quibbling on the rooftops and I reflect on where I have come from and where I want to go. I consider all of the ways to make the future my reality.
When one is a child, we spend all our time wishing we were older, bigger, stronger, faster. Wishing ourselves into adulthood. When one is an adult, you wish life were slower, simpler, quieter. Wishing ourselves back to the peaceful simplicity that is most childhoods. You don't worry about repaying your college debt, or buying a house. These things simply are there for you. It is the beautiful, dreadful thing of being responsible. Or worrying over where the money is going to come from to pay for this or that. You can sit around wishing your whole life away.
I'm not wishing I was a child any more, nor am I wishing away being an adult. Today I do wish I knew what the future held. I wish I could peer into it's depths and know where I'm going next or what I am doing after this chapter. But then, what fun would life be if we knew everything to come? Yeah, we might be able to be more prepared or something, but still. You'd end up dreading things rather than being elated to have them.
So I sit at my desk and watch the crows quibbling on the rooftops and I reflect on where I have come from and where I want to go. I consider all of the ways to make the future my reality.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Neverwhere Design - Part One
I don't think I've written about my senior project for Cornish yet, so here's the beginning!
Cornish is doing a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and I have the honor and delight to be designing the costumes for it. If you didn't know already, I am an enormous fan of Neil Gaiman's works (as well as his wife, Amanda Palmer's music) and was utterly over the moon with delight when Cornish announced what the show would be.
Neverwhere is a story about a Scotsman, Richard Mayhew, just moved to a new job in the big city of London, who ends up on the most peculiar adventure of his life. He has it all, a beautiful (if controlling and stiff) fiancee named Jessica, a good job at a nice firm, and a smattering of friends. What more could a chap want?
The more comes in the form of a ragged girl who appears out of nowhere, clothing torn, arm bloody, catalysing Richard to care for her. She turns out to be from another place, London Below and leads Richard on an amazing adventure that ultimately leaves him asking himself; what does he want from life? Is going to the pub, and marrying Jessica, and accepting the promotion to Junior Partner really all there is in life? Is it really all he wants?
I can't tell you that, darlings. You must read the book.
The world we're creating is based on inspiration of the layers that occur in life. If you look across a subway platform, you can see several tracks, platforms, lines and layers. Action could occur on a series of planes, each sitting on top of another. London Below is a bit like that, it interacts with our world (London Above) but we don't always see it. It lives in those odd people who live on the street. The group of urchins who feel like kings and celebrate the little pleasures. Perhaps in Below they are princes and kings? You'd never know to look at them in Above.
For now I'll leave you with an idea of our main heroes. The Lady Door, Richard Mayhew, The Marquis de Carabas, and The Hunter.
Cornish is doing a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and I have the honor and delight to be designing the costumes for it. If you didn't know already, I am an enormous fan of Neil Gaiman's works (as well as his wife, Amanda Palmer's music) and was utterly over the moon with delight when Cornish announced what the show would be.
Neverwhere is a story about a Scotsman, Richard Mayhew, just moved to a new job in the big city of London, who ends up on the most peculiar adventure of his life. He has it all, a beautiful (if controlling and stiff) fiancee named Jessica, a good job at a nice firm, and a smattering of friends. What more could a chap want?
The more comes in the form of a ragged girl who appears out of nowhere, clothing torn, arm bloody, catalysing Richard to care for her. She turns out to be from another place, London Below and leads Richard on an amazing adventure that ultimately leaves him asking himself; what does he want from life? Is going to the pub, and marrying Jessica, and accepting the promotion to Junior Partner really all there is in life? Is it really all he wants?
I can't tell you that, darlings. You must read the book.
The world we're creating is based on inspiration of the layers that occur in life. If you look across a subway platform, you can see several tracks, platforms, lines and layers. Action could occur on a series of planes, each sitting on top of another. London Below is a bit like that, it interacts with our world (London Above) but we don't always see it. It lives in those odd people who live on the street. The group of urchins who feel like kings and celebrate the little pleasures. Perhaps in Below they are princes and kings? You'd never know to look at them in Above.
For now I'll leave you with an idea of our main heroes. The Lady Door, Richard Mayhew, The Marquis de Carabas, and The Hunter.
Lady Door
Richard Mayhew
The Marquis de Carabas
The Hunter
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