http://westendjournal.com the theatre blog Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:32:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 3The Nature of ThingsI am the greatest hunter of all the Northland. Who has been to Melville Bay, and all the way over to Point Barrow? I have a friend Makpo, he is old now, but he lives there: people's livestheir real lives, all beginning at different times, and so ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/24/sjorfaa-sjorfaa-chapter-3-of-5-chapters.html You might be surprised by the breadth and reach of the influence of Plato. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of his progeny. Emerson also had a lot of Swedenborgian Rosicrucian leanings and was heavily influenced by Thomas Carlyle whose biographers have still not figured out what his secret was ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/24/emerson-and-plato.html Spread betting is a complicated venture; the statement is nothing but a popular misconception. Proponents of this form consider it to be real easy, once the new player has understood the concept. It enables you to win or loose money depending on how close off or far you are in ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/24/spread-betting-basics.html I happened to stumble across a book entitled Theater in America: Appraisal and Challenge, a report put together for the National Theatre Conference in 1968. The preface indicates "In November 1961, at the annual meeting of the Nationa Theatre Cobference (NTC) in New York, the Board of Trustees established a ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/24/what-was-sold.html A lot of new age piano music consists of repeating patterns, or textures in the left hand while the right hand improvises a melody. This approach is really a good one! It frees you up to create in the moment. First you decide what chord or chords you'll be using ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/24/how-to-create-interesting-textures.html Chords. They're amazing. There's no doubt about it. Especially when it comes to piano playing and the Open Position Chord. Here we can use both hands to create music with. The chord is broken up into its main elements and its voicing is spread out which gives it a nice ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/24/the-open-position-piano-chord.html Mike Daisey reprints a great letter from Paul R. Pierce, Producing Director of the Springer Opera House, which I find inspiring. Give it a read.Tomorrow, I will post segments of a mid-1960s report about theatre in America that describes where the regional theatre was then, and what it intended to ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/23/letter-from-paul-r-pierce.html A digital SLR camera or a single lens reflex (SLR) camera is one of the most popular cameras amongst photographers today. These cameras not only provide high quality images but the photographer can also largely control how he wants the final product to look like. Hence, people who are extremely ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/23/move-up-to-the-world-of-the-digital-slr-camera.html Watch any of the major movie, television, and music award shows on television today and one of the first things you'll notice about the celebrities on the red carpet, aside from their extravagant (and sometimes outlandish) attire, are the amount and size of the jewelry they are wearing. Hip-hop jewelry, ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/23/hip-hop-jewelry-and-todays-stars.html Blind DesignsBorn today, gone tomorrow Like a butterfly with no stomach Born n the morning, dead by night Ohlet me whisper Ohlet me cry What man has not learned? What man will not learn! In his pomposity, his rhetoric With his abstract concepts With his intellect With his creativeness He has become enslaved Bythem By them all, he will fall. Ah! Yesabstract ... http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/07/23/blind-designs-a-poem-and-a-note-by-rosa-on-the-other-door.html