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June 8, 2008

Here’s some brick wall for your ass, hand carved from styrofoam.

5 Comments

  1. that looks incredible!

    Comment by p — June 8, 2008 @ 10:53 pm

  2. Is that the same batch from the previous posting with the painters tape? Pretty amazing. Reminds me of my days at UNH in Stagecraft class.

    I’m gonna go buy some Styrofoam and build me a brick house!

    Comment by Lyle_s — June 9, 2008 @ 11:04 am

  3. Lyle, I’d like to hear about stagecraft class…

    Comment by Rolston — June 9, 2008 @ 12:36 pm

  4. Thanks P!

    Comment by Rolston — June 9, 2008 @ 12:36 pm

  5. Stagecraft was a monster class at UNH. Four of the easiest credits you could ever accumulate. It also fulfilled a generic requirement for fine arts or something like that.

    The teacher was David Ramsey. I didn’t remember the name, just looked it up and it rang a bell. He claimed to have been the prop master on the production of The Color Purple but I don’t see any accreditation on IMDB to confirm that claim. I shouldn’t make these assumptions but it sure looked like this guy was high all the time. This fact, combined with his status as a tenured professor, was grounds for high praise, to me.

    Anyhow, the course was all about set design and build. Everyone had to put in something like 10 hours of time building a set for the UNH theater and there really wasn’t much other than that. I helped build a castle scene for some Shakespeare play or something like that. In accordance with the example set by our professor, I made sure I was impaired for all of my work hours. It was a good time.

    The course wasn’t without long term value. We did have to give a presentation in front of the entire class (~500 people).

    Stagecraft was a prerequisite for Stage Properties, which also kicked ass. Basically I mad one prop a week for 16 weeks. Among the highlights of my creativity were Fake Drinking Glass that Appeared to Have Liquid in it and Fake Hot Dog.

    I also took a class in puppetry (if this wasn’t an in-state school I’m sure my folks would have stopped paying my tuition). My crowning achievement there was a Muppet-style version of Dennis Hopper. In my final exam I had to present him and I had him snorting coke off a desk. I got in trouble for this because there were kids in attendance.

    Comment by Lyle_s — June 10, 2008 @ 9:01 am

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