Some last minute propwork; just thought I’d give you a peek into my fascinating life.

Here’s little doodle/Rorschach test for you.

Lately I’ve been more swamped than Prince Humperdink, with all my bookstore work & props work for Signature Productions’ The King And I , which opens Oct. 26th. Adult ticket: $25.

Still, I seem to find a little time to doodle, so I’m going to make it a point to post scanned doodles as often as I can.

Sometimes 8 hours aren’t enough. If you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting frequently, I’m sorry. I’ll try to post all the captivating details of my many thrilling adventures with more regularity than you could possibly hope to enjoy – Starting now.

Here’s my current view:

Pictured: Wombat photo, hard cider bottle, workstation accoutrements. Click for full size.

Bonus points for guessing number of computers at my desk!

Napkin + Sharpie.

It is a fun thing to arrange in your mind a set of adjectives and order them by intensity of meaning, or to otherwise sort them. It seems a good way to keep your words from gathering dust.  It’s also interesting to think how others might sort the same list differently.

And what other words would you add to this list for greater detail? Noise, absent, modern, interference, absurd, non-entity? Each of these words has their own meaning, but when placed somewhere outside or in-between entries in the list “rococo…decorative…simple…”, they may take a unique spot on this gradient of meaning and of word.

Tonight’s story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This as you may recognize is a maintenance service elevator, still in operation, waiting for you.

While not the same image you may see on the attraction from which this quote comes, my sketch of a door drifting into a starry field certainly brings the scene to mind.

The illustration is ink & blue highlighter on 3-inch-square “sticky note”.

It seems I’ve been in another dimension for the last two months. I’m the sort of person for whom there could never be enough hours in a day, but with all that’s been going on in my life I’ve really lost track of time.

• Wombat & I are planning a move to the North West within a year’s time (no time like the present),
• My book store has been very greedy for my mental resources,
• I’m trying to sharpen my creative skills in the hopes it will point me in the direction of a future career,
• On top of that, since late July I’ve been working with Signature Productions on the production of Once on this Island [wikipedia].

I really don’t think I’m biased in telling you that this production is really remarkable. The cast has great energy, and the backstage work to put this thing together is pretty impressive.

I initially started on the props team with work went somewhat slowly for me, considering I couldn’t meet at the main workshop ran by Erik Ball to work as a team with others. Luckily my own garage is fairly well stocked for prop work.

Some of my creations have been a little … subtle for stage application. I take more of a replica-style, detail-oriented approach to making things which don’t read well under theatrical lighting, or from the distances at which the audience sits. A few of these were bummers – you’ll see my awesome, but unused, driftwood very soon.

As we got closer to the show, it became clear that I was needed as an extra stagehand. That, of course, meant almost 2 weeks of dry tech runs & dress rehearsals. Some days we were out at Spring Mountain State Park after midnight! Let me tell you – a guy as domesticated as myself benefits from somewhat more sleep than that!

I’ll tell you more about all this very soon – but just now I have to run out the door to see District-9 with Journeyman Protector.