collisionwork | Feb. 8th, 2009

The video and synopsis for Episode 9 of Bryan Enk & Matt Gray's live serial Penny Dreadful, "The Terrible Tale of the Black Dragon," is up HERE. The synopsis for Episode 10, "The Science and the Seance: Two Tales of Love and Horror," is up HERE, but no video for that as yet. I've been really happy with the whole series and proud of most of my work as lighting designer and tech supervisor, but Episode 9 was my favorite for my design work all around (and, with Episode 4, one of my two favorite segments of the serial overall).

The video, of course, being a recording of a live show, doesn't at all live up to what the show looked and felt like live, but is pretty good for all that. Two more episodes to go. I've been informed of getting a little something extra and special to do on the last episode, too, and I don't know if I can say anything about that yet . . . but it makes me very happy.

I finished my draft of Richard Foreman's George Bataille's Bathrobe (as I had to add all the characters, settings, and stage directions of my own) for the August production a couple of hours ago, and am in the middle of proofing it before sending it to the actors who've agreed to be in it. I'm happy with how it came out and it all now pretty much makes sense to me. Not entirely, or there'd be no point in doing it, but I know enough to proceed properly from this point. I lost a cast member, who got a bigger gig - not the easiest person to replace, but I can handle it, I think. A couple of other people I asked couldn't do it either, and I must ask others, but am debating who to go to next from the list of people I want to work with.

Now, for fun, here's a video of someone's interpretation of "O Fortuna," from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana:

And two found images (from Modern Mechanix and LP Cover Lover), with varied points of view on forms of transportation: