I had a spiritual experience in the theater yesterday. Facilitated by Marion D’Cruz.
Surrounded by an audience of awkwardly dressed students, she walked, danced and Gostan-ed Forward about the room, recounting her artistic history in the most natural way.
‘Is what I do called ‘dance’?’
She threw that question at us and just waited. Sipping from her plastic [...]
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Penipu Chilayu!
Posted in Everyday Heroes, Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged art, dance, marion d'cruz, performance, retrospective, theatre on 2 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Case of the Curious Casting Call
Posted in Everyday Heroes, Recipes for Creativity, tagged abuse, courage, creativity on 28 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
M: So what was your movie about?
G: Domestic abuse.
M: Abuse? Why on earth did you make a film about abuse?
G: Because I have first hand experience.
M: Come on! You?!?
G: My father used to do things to my mum. It used to really piss me off. So I made a film about it.
M: Does your father [...]
The Reluctantly Retired Stunt Man
Posted in Everyday Heroes, Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged actors, committment, pain, sacrifice on 23 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
At 15, Beto began his film career as a stunt man. (Let’s ignore for a moment the fact that a 15 year old is allowed to do stunts on a film set.)
I learned a very important lesson from Beto: You can take the actor out of the stunt, but you can’t take the stunt man [...]
Zee Avi
Posted in Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged artist, malaysian, music on 20 May 2009 | 8 Comments »
She appeared in the papers last year.
But sadly, scientists have yet to figure out how to embed YouTube videos into newspapers and many of us may have missed this all-important piece of news.
What a shame! What a waste! What a terrible pity!
This 23 year old is one of us, folks!!
Discovered on the internet posting her [...]
The Freak for the Teh Tarique
Posted in Inanimate But Alive, Muses, Now where do I put this?, Recipes for Creativity, tagged mamak, music video, teh tarik on 30 April 2009 | 8 Comments »
I recently had a few hours free, aight.
[oh btw, just a little warning: hip-hop rapper speak ahead...or a bad imitation thereof]
5 were spent waitin’ for Ashraf, Alfred and DJ Taraz to finalize the toon and muzique (how am I doing so far?).
3 were spent shootin’ at the local eatery.
Let me give you the low-down of [...]
Terpesong
Posted in Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged bully, childhood, children, education, justice, school on 27 April 2009 | 3 Comments »
Alayna, one of the most brilliant and radiant young school-going ladies I know, does not answer essay questions critically and with creative abandon. Why? “I’ll get a big ‘x’ and ‘terpesong’.”
Ahh…that word brings back memories of my own schoolhood.
Terpesong…
There is not a single good person I know who was never at least once terpesong. Sit [...]
Don’t play play (too little)
Posted in Muses, Recipes for Creativity, tagged creativity, curiosity, play on 27 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve come to realise, since starting this blog, that I have an interest in creative processes.
I’ve just been reminded by Stuart Brown that I need to play more! :) We all do!
After watching his fascinating talk below, it all makes sense why:
- On days when the writing is not flowing, I keep reminding myself to [...]
