Macro Water Photography from www.frogview.com

Some images of water posted on www.digg.com --

No Surprises

I don't mean to pepper this blog with Radiohead videos (they are so like five years ago, ew!) but they seem to really apply in a lot of ways. This is a video from their album OK Computer.

early text

Text I initially created for the Ibsen festival can be found here:
http://www.sheilacallaghan.com/water_final.doc

Document of flood mythology:
http://www.sheilacallaghan.com/Floodmyths.doc

Notes I took from our reading at New Dramatists last year:

Lights up. Water everywhere. Clothes float in. Actors bring microphones in, place them near the clothes, and objects. The clothing sings. Then actors climb into the clothes, objects take on lifes. Certain objects have more than one life.

START PLAY WITH ARIA OF A FLOATING SHIRT
TWO MONOLOGUES START THE PLAY
INCORPORATE NOAH'S ARC AND FLOOD MYTHOLOGY
TRACK THE LIFE OF LOST OBJECTS THROUGHOUT THE PLAY
CHANGE THE GENDERS OF THE CHARACTERS

first thoughts

- the films you posted bill are great. it made me think of a couple of things - the first is the transformative nature of water. how do we show that? how it transforms the characters but it is constantly transforming - like time does. crazy idea but we could have a large block of ice on the stage that melts during the course of the show....or the opposite - we are watching water freeze during the show...can we suspend water mid-air? kindof like freezing time?

- i was also thinking about the whole idea of experimenting with water...the role that a "scientist" can play - taking water and objects (used in the piece) and seeing how they morph - or even disintegrate over time. maybe we have objects collected from audience members each night and keeping various vials of experiments going so that by the last show we have a whole wall of vials?

- ok- just watched the radiohead...it's amazing...it's absolutely fascinating. i love the way it captures the floating feeling of being deep underwater. i love the details on the dishes at the table (still scraps of food there) as if life was severed abruptly...i love the spotlight - and the idea that objects can be captured through light and how they tied that in to the sky at the end...

random chatter

NOTES FROM THE WAVERLY...

-swivel chairs
-body as body of water (70% of earth, of human)
-endless ocean, no beginning, no end
-locales: underwater aria, cloud aria
-grief: water as escape for survival
-flooding of the gorges in China, ancient underwater cities
-apathy from abroad... what can I do to help? nothing. shutting out tragedy, different perspectives on the same event, empathy vs. safety
-the contemporary vs. the historical, the quotidian vs. the epic
-playing with scale
-temporary distortion blog - http://temporarydistortion.blogspot.com/
-audience involvement-all drink water together; all hold breath together; different ticket prices; ways of approximating experience and involving an audience viscerally (event theatre), cell phone or computer usage during the show, audience determines how the show goes
-first memory of water (nearly drowning, learning to swim)
-fake news cast... is the world drowning while we all sit in a theatre? What is being buried, and why, and how will we deal with it when we open the doors and the water pours in?

Water in Zero Gravity

Look around you - Water