http://amplecatnap.com/blog 10 Films, Creative Love, and the occasional Food. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:26:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once, I hated YouTube.  They offered low video quality, a crappy interface, and lots of yahoos making viral videos that were--sometimes--funny. Most of that has improved.  If you want to be elegant and exclusive, you still have to head on over to Vimeo or any of the other more esoteric video-sharing ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=48 It's been a while. And although I didn't have any great inspiration to write, I just linked this blog to my Facebook entry, and I thought there should be something to see. Tonight I performed in Jamie King's O.M.F.G. show at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre as part of their Spank series. Jamie is one of the ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=47 A while ago I studied acting with Mark Blum at HB Studios. Mark helped me make a breakthrough as an actor: he told me to use my own voice. To start from myself, and to create the work from there. This made my acting, and actually all ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=46 I just saw some awful theatre.  It was an evening of one-acts, and they were generally badly acted, badly written, and badly directed.  The actors, untutored in or incapable of the art of behaving truthfully on stage, were in most cases abandoned by playwrights or directors who had no idea ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=45 I saw Cloverfield.  Online listings say the movie is one hour and twenty-four minutes long.  I don't know.  But I watched all of it, right down to the green PG-13 screen that appears just before the theater lights come back on.Then I walked out on to 42nd street and headed ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=44 I couldn't get the outtakes edited the way I wanted.  They were too long, or too short, or too something.  I exported a version and watched on my TV.  Several times.  Still no idea how to fix the edit.Then my editor, a free, bare-bones version of Avid's Xpress, stopped working: ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=43 I passed this bike on the street the other day. I think I know who made it. I've seen them hanging out on the street with their crazy choppers. Sometimes they even ride them. Making a bicycle like this takes guts, persistence, and love, because: how could you ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=42 The globe artichoke, Cynara scolymus--I only ever call it an artichoke, myself--is a species of thistle.  The Italians brought it to the New World, perhaps in recompense for their discovery of tomatoes.  It's one of my favorite vegetables, but I rarely eat it because it seems difficult to prepare.On the ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=41 We got pelted with tiny daggers of ice yesterday. Snow fell from a great height, melted on the way down, and then re-froze. I took the subway several times on my round of errands. Each time I emerged from a station, I thought snow had given way to rain because ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=40 I can't help myself, so filled am I with delight at some of these pictures.  It being just before I'm really, really supposed to be in bed doesn't help; I get punchy and easily excited.  Anyhow:DAILY MONSTER : OPEN SOURCE BLOT 01Is a tribute to Stefan G. Bucher's monster-drawing performance ... http://amplecatnap.com/blog/?p=39