Buncha stuff
Sticking with my sketchbook.
There's an improv class at work that I've been going to, and it's been really amazing. Apparently improv is playing, for grownups. There was a game today where we just paired up and did scenes from the wild west, and about halfway through I realized that it was just about exactly like the games I would play as a little kid, except that today when I said "shhhh! what's that in the bushes?!" my partner didn't get scared and start crying (or go "nuh-UH, this is a game about PICNICS").
I guess at some point we stop riffing on everything - because really improv is just like playing with action figures. What you do suggests what happens next, and then you just act like it happened, and as long as everyone knows what's going on, that's what happened. I kind of suck at it because I sometimes go blank and sometimes I laugh (and it's way better if you play it straight, cause then the audience laughs instead)... but I'm getting better. Maybe?
It's really interesting, and fantastic to see what you can think up once you force your mind to work faster than your planning parts do.
BUT ON TO THE PICTURES.
I have never gotten a duck for my birthday, but I did give my littlest brother half a duck for Christmas when I was working in the meat department and kind of short on cash. He was really excited, which is major points for him - I would not have been so happy to get half a duck for Christmas when I was nine. "Can I open it? Should I do it over the sink?"
Farscape is THE BEST.
There's an improv class at work that I've been going to, and it's been really amazing. Apparently improv is playing, for grownups. There was a game today where we just paired up and did scenes from the wild west, and about halfway through I realized that it was just about exactly like the games I would play as a little kid, except that today when I said "shhhh! what's that in the bushes?!" my partner didn't get scared and start crying (or go "nuh-UH, this is a game about PICNICS").
I guess at some point we stop riffing on everything - because really improv is just like playing with action figures. What you do suggests what happens next, and then you just act like it happened, and as long as everyone knows what's going on, that's what happened. I kind of suck at it because I sometimes go blank and sometimes I laugh (and it's way better if you play it straight, cause then the audience laughs instead)... but I'm getting better. Maybe?
It's really interesting, and fantastic to see what you can think up once you force your mind to work faster than your planning parts do.
BUT ON TO THE PICTURES.
I have never gotten a duck for my birthday, but I did give my littlest brother half a duck for Christmas when I was working in the meat department and kind of short on cash. He was really excited, which is major points for him - I would not have been so happy to get half a duck for Christmas when I was nine. "Can I open it? Should I do it over the sink?"
Farscape is THE BEST.
posted by Emma at
9:42 PM
