Saturday, 8 August 2009
Thursday, 2 July 2009
A new era begins
Wilderness of Tigers is pleased to announce that you will see something new emerge by the end of the summer. Clues will appear on this blog sporadically.
Keep checking!
Alasdair
Keep checking!
Alasdair
Sunday, 26 April 2009
I'm blank paper, your blank paper!
I have a bunch of things planned at various stages of formation. I've got a handy moleskine notebook that I've been writing ideas down in and am also collaborating with Craig Steele on a top secret piece of work.
I'm going to be holding a few workshops soon to flesh out a couple of ideas and work out where I want to go with them. I'm going to be a lot less busy over the next couple of months so wil have a lot of time to work on development and start blogging on progress.
Al.
I'm going to be holding a few workshops soon to flesh out a couple of ideas and work out where I want to go with them. I'm going to be a lot less busy over the next couple of months so wil have a lot of time to work on development and start blogging on progress.
Al.
Inspiring
It's taken me a while to post this exciting news because when I first found out, we weren't allowed to tell anyone.
Macrobert is one of the companies who has been given funding from the Scottish Arts Council's Inspire fund.
mPower and mFest will take place very soon and it's extremely exciting. It will inspire young people across the country to achieve their creative potential and culminate in a festival planned and programmed and run by young people themselves. This means a great deal for young people between 12 and 17 as it is the first time that anything like this has been tried and is a hugely ambitious project that gives ownership of a festival over to them.
As things begin to happen I'll probably blog a bit more, but as always it's an exciting time to be part of macrobert.
Al.
Macrobert is one of the companies who has been given funding from the Scottish Arts Council's Inspire fund.
mPower and mFest will take place very soon and it's extremely exciting. It will inspire young people across the country to achieve their creative potential and culminate in a festival planned and programmed and run by young people themselves. This means a great deal for young people between 12 and 17 as it is the first time that anything like this has been tried and is a hugely ambitious project that gives ownership of a festival over to them.
As things begin to happen I'll probably blog a bit more, but as always it's an exciting time to be part of macrobert.
Al.
Spring awakening
It's been a hectic few months where a lot has been happening at the QM. I've just submitted my AGM report and it should be up on www.qmu.org.uk at some point soon.
I've also been over to New York again, and London this weekend and have now seen Wicked (broadway), the Lion King (broadway) and Spring Awakening (london). None are as good as [title of show] but I am starting to like musicals more than I have in the past. The way the stampede was staged in the Lion King was amazing.
I was also starstruck, which doesn't happen often when I walked past Richard Lowdon when I was en route to Covent Garden. Thinking 'why aren't you in Sheffield', I quickly googled Forced Ent and found that Void Story was premiering in Soho just round the corner from where one of my friends works.
I grabbed a ticket and was very happy to find that Tim Etchells is back on form. I'd been disappointed by spectacular but found Void Story fascinating. Forced ent made a slideshow of images created from flickr and identikit people and created a world not unlike The Broken World from Etchells new novel. The performers then wove a story by giving the people in the slideshow voices. I can't help but feel that Tim has been playing Half Life 2 because some of the places he went with this piece could have fitted very well into that.
It's been a successful weekend and something I should do more often now that I know I can handle the coach journey without it destroying me!
Al.
I've also been over to New York again, and London this weekend and have now seen Wicked (broadway), the Lion King (broadway) and Spring Awakening (london). None are as good as [title of show] but I am starting to like musicals more than I have in the past. The way the stampede was staged in the Lion King was amazing.
I was also starstruck, which doesn't happen often when I walked past Richard Lowdon when I was en route to Covent Garden. Thinking 'why aren't you in Sheffield', I quickly googled Forced Ent and found that Void Story was premiering in Soho just round the corner from where one of my friends works.
I grabbed a ticket and was very happy to find that Tim Etchells is back on form. I'd been disappointed by spectacular but found Void Story fascinating. Forced ent made a slideshow of images created from flickr and identikit people and created a world not unlike The Broken World from Etchells new novel. The performers then wove a story by giving the people in the slideshow voices. I can't help but feel that Tim has been playing Half Life 2 because some of the places he went with this piece could have fitted very well into that.
It's been a successful weekend and something I should do more often now that I know I can handle the coach journey without it destroying me!
Al.
Thursday, 1 January 2009
"What's next?"
As President Bartlet would say.
I've got a lot to do in the next six months, without even beginning to consider what could happen in the second half of 2009. A few of my plans will appear in this post in the next couple of days. Right now I am recovering from a very long night out, so give me a day or so to recover and you'll start to see this post expand....
al.
I've got a lot to do in the next six months, without even beginning to consider what could happen in the second half of 2009. A few of my plans will appear in this post in the next couple of days. Right now I am recovering from a very long night out, so give me a day or so to recover and you'll start to see this post expand....
al.
Reviews of 2008
Favorite Movie
Wall-E
It wasn't Ratatouille but it was Pixar. And Wall-E made the Apple start-up noise every time he was fully charged.
Favorite Video Game
Half Life 2
I discovered Half-Life 2 in 2008 and it spawned [pun very much intended] a great love for everything that Valve do. I find the way that they are continuing the HL2 story through episodic chapters fascinating. Haven't managed to finish HL2:Episode 2 yet but I'm almost there. The release of Left 4 Dead sealed the deal for me when it comes to Valve. If I ever did work with a game company, I'd love it to be them.
Favorite Blog
www.titleofshow.com/blog
Title of Show struck a chord with me for the way they made their work and the way that they keep it going and share a bond with their audience. The way that TOSers assembled and sprung into action when the closing notice was posted sums up the hold that title of show had on the fans. Check out the title of show show on youtube.
Favorite TV Show
Spooks
Spooks still excites me as much as it did in Season One. I wish I was a spy. Maybe I am.....
Favorite Artist
Neil Slorance
I met Neil when he came to the QM with some of his work as part of the Craft Mafia. Octopi, robots and more. It's fun, and it's vibrant. Ace.
Favorite Play
[Title of Show]
I'm not really that 'into' musicals, but this was brilliant. It refuses to accept that Broadway theatre can now only be musicals based on books, films and celebrity. Heidi, Susan, Jeff and Hunter achieved something brilliant in 2008 and I have endless respect for the way that they did it.
Favorite Book
Tim Etchells' The Broken World
Tim seems to be doing a lot of work nowadays, both in this book and with Forced Entertainment, that focusses on description of events instead of actual action. It fell flat with me on stage, but in this novel it really spoke to me. The book is based on a Videogame Walkthrough, but through it you get glimpses and fragments of the narrator's life. It seems to be a continuation, in a different way than he has done until now, of what Tim explores in Certain Fragments when he writes about being able to go with someone you pass on the elevator.
Wall-E
It wasn't Ratatouille but it was Pixar. And Wall-E made the Apple start-up noise every time he was fully charged.
Favorite Video Game
Half Life 2
I discovered Half-Life 2 in 2008 and it spawned [pun very much intended] a great love for everything that Valve do. I find the way that they are continuing the HL2 story through episodic chapters fascinating. Haven't managed to finish HL2:Episode 2 yet but I'm almost there. The release of Left 4 Dead sealed the deal for me when it comes to Valve. If I ever did work with a game company, I'd love it to be them.
Favorite Blog
www.titleofshow.com/blog
Title of Show struck a chord with me for the way they made their work and the way that they keep it going and share a bond with their audience. The way that TOSers assembled and sprung into action when the closing notice was posted sums up the hold that title of show had on the fans. Check out the title of show show on youtube.
Favorite TV Show
Spooks
Spooks still excites me as much as it did in Season One. I wish I was a spy. Maybe I am.....
Favorite Artist
Neil Slorance
I met Neil when he came to the QM with some of his work as part of the Craft Mafia. Octopi, robots and more. It's fun, and it's vibrant. Ace.
Favorite Play
[Title of Show]
I'm not really that 'into' musicals, but this was brilliant. It refuses to accept that Broadway theatre can now only be musicals based on books, films and celebrity. Heidi, Susan, Jeff and Hunter achieved something brilliant in 2008 and I have endless respect for the way that they did it.
Favorite Book
Tim Etchells' The Broken World
Tim seems to be doing a lot of work nowadays, both in this book and with Forced Entertainment, that focusses on description of events instead of actual action. It fell flat with me on stage, but in this novel it really spoke to me. The book is based on a Videogame Walkthrough, but through it you get glimpses and fragments of the narrator's life. It seems to be a continuation, in a different way than he has done until now, of what Tim explores in Certain Fragments when he writes about being able to go with someone you pass on the elevator.
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