VAPAPO is a character creation technique created by Jill Bernard, the author of Small Cute Book of Improv. Voice Atittude Posture Animal Prop Obsession The idea of VAPAPO is that by strongly choosing each of the 6 traits it is possible to create an entirely unique character in each scene. Further, t . . . Read more

This movie is Rashomon meets Oldboy meets a Tinto Brass. There is something disturbing about Korean thriller films. It’s perhaps exaggerated by my lack of knowledge of the Korean culture, it feels very alien, disconnected, happenning in a shadow world, fragmented, a snowstorm in a crystal ball . . . Read more

Laban categorized human movement into four component parts: Space Time Weight Flow Each of those parts has two elements: Space is either direct or indirect. Speed is either quick or sustained. Weight is either heavy or light. Flow is either bound or free. In class, we mainly focused on the eight eff . . . Read more

What? Is? This? [Movie?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDlzWH1wgJA) Imagine watching the climax of a Charlie Chaplin or a Three Stooges movie as a kid; people are running helter-skelter all over the place, things get so chaotic that you have no idea as to what is going on, your eyes are constantly . . . Read more

We learnt about the various stock characters in the old Italian troupe of Comedia dell’arte. The goal is to express a character using their physical mannersisms and try and use these characteristics in your act. Pantalone A suspicious miser. He is always hunched over, bent head, conniving, han . . . Read more

We played some theater games to learn how to not get self conscious while on the stage and be more aware and have a better stage presence. Mirroring, physical and vocal Kitty wants a spot Green light, red light Who am I? Scence on scene Animals Throwing Knives Emotional Symphony Voices . . . Read more

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." -Neuromancer I always knew that The Matrix had to have found it’s concepts from some book, it was too revolutionary a movie to have spawned out of nothing. And I finally found it - Neuromancer, the archetypal cyberp . . . Read more

"I know what I'm about son." Ron Swanson is the simply the best Swanson. I watch all kinds of comedy and I love all kinds of comedy. Good comedians are great philosophers who bring out the absurdities in life. They’re great observers, great listeners, great communicators, great actors, and gre . . . Read more

Located on the Fern Lake trail this campground is adjacent to a large pile of rocks, hence the name. Located far away from the paved road, the trailhead is itself quite mysterious and severely lacking in signage. Everything about the campsite was rocky which unfortunately made taking a dump a bit di . . . Read more

A few days ago I had hiked in the Rockies in the Indian Peaks Park up to the Blue Lakes. It was more of a walk than a hike. Now we were headed to the Rocky Mountain National Park for four days of camping and backpacking. The Rockies themselves span thousands of miles in the US and Canada, and the Ro . . . Read more

Of all my outdoors experiences I’ve perhaps never felt as alarmed as one evening in the Rockies. We woke up to find the entire world shrouded in a thin layer of mist and rain. As for the sun, not even a faint outline was visible anywhere. The first event to throw a wrench in our perfectly plan . . . Read more

"The human race has to live with its conscience. Whatever the Hermians argue, survival is not everything." -Rendezvous with Rama I’m biased towards space novels. Reading about space travel and stars and planets and contemplating the huge vastness and emptiness always fills me with a sense of i . . . Read more

It is quite an everyday thing to be stuck in a plane on the tarmac at the Denver airport awaiting it’s turn to get on the runway. It is, however, not an everyday thing to have your plane bombarded by huge hailstones while it is there. At first it sounds like some firecrackers are going off in . . . Read more

It is my last afternoon in Golden, CO. I’m sitting by a window in a café in the small downtown, staring out at the clouded skies, at the still air and the gently moving leaves. Tomorrow I’ll head out from here and move over to another world. A part of me will stay back in Golden, watchin . . . Read more

"As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They w . . . Read more