#work note

[lilyfarseer]

There is something so satisfying about being at work, and listening someone sing Stand Out and you join in (with ENTHUSIASM) and they sing along with you. 

Then accuse you of making their life into a musical. 

So I just sang I2I at them. 

[haylin-cai-blog]

Notes for adapting The non-existent knight.

1. Calvino wrote with humour. The humour comes from depicting what conceivably heavy and horrible battle field into lighthearted, benign gestures. And most interestingly, he encourages us to look into the ridiculous details of battle, coughing aroused by the dust and smoke is the beginning of a battle, the geometric and physical analysis of how impossible is it to hit the targeted enemy. How serious the young soldier is with his ambition to revenge for his father and how often he ends up fighting the wrong and irrelevant person... Every time when there’s a chance of life and death moment, and Calvino would drop the suspension by a little joke...

How can that be reflected on stage? It reminds me the beginning of Gecko’s early work ‘the Arab and Jew’, epical music followed by a sudden drop or cut, turning something big into a ridicule. And the clown show I saw this summer: War Pig, how they fluently and seamlessly shift between heavy and light through repeating the same melody in a different way, how something is pushed into extreme and eventually becomes laughable.

2. In Calvino’s The Non-existent Knight, he also used lots of technic which reminds me of movie: zoom in, suspension, comment from outside, time shift...

I am really unskilled for transforming inner thoughts into stage work......My only imagination right now is to fix Agilulf into a sculptural gesture and let the narrator comment from third person point of view. But for Raimbaud, I feel this character is closer to us, less mysterious, more human. Should he transform into an old version of himself and comment on the youth version of him? Or he should simply use physicality to paint his emotions? Like repetitive gestures in different qualities?

3. How about scene change? Within one chapter, the army proceeds to different places, soldiers charge into different fields. What is the basic elements of design and how to physicalise the environment? Sound is easy to shift on stage, but set hard. I need a scenographer to work with me and discuss.

[an-chen]

week 15

_好了好了這種不自由感又來了！放了假卻沒地方去，跟以前到處都可以去卻不自由的感覺形成了...這是種生活形式嗎？

_今天同事態度奇怪，好像想拉開距離那種感覺＝＝不知怎樣讓我覺得火大，莫名其妙

_昨天去了那間大利餐廳，認識了Sasa，因為名字的捲舌音太難了，義大利人可能都很健談，那餐廳真的蠻安靜的，唯一打中我的點。

_公司在整修，衣服都沒辦法洗，快沒衣服可以穿了（嘆

_總之這種感覺出現應該就是生活失調，沒辦法有理想中的樣子算是這一年必須的犧牲，我感覺理想中的生活應該要有個廚房，好舒壓啊

_這世界朝九晚五、週一週五的rate race真心讓我覺得是讓大多數不得不遵守的人憂鬱的主要原因，被社會制約。

_好想好好整理房間，但須屏息等待裝修完成！

_偌大的大陸要找一間美術用品店竟是那麼的困難，難怪他們網購那麼發達。

_心病還需心藥醫，感覺需給我的心開張處方簽。

_我理解了，不一定每個人都要“深入”地去理解，但在相處的過程有用心就好；不是每個工作都要花生命中那麼長的時間去了解自己適不適合、喜不喜歡，而是要為自己設立目標、用心體會，時間到了就該往下個目標前進。但是老師說，簡單的事情要做深，所以學習專心吧！提高專注質量、減少體會時間。

_明天星期一，提不起勁的時候就用平常心對待吧！

_沒有星期天憂鬱了，以後不知道去哪的時候就去吃義大利麵吧！

[thekidhollas]

Late Note

Dear Work, I will be 20 minutes late this morning as I could not stop playing Lightsabers with my son.

[wanglewei]

工作日記121105

【工作日記121105】 對於要拼貼不同素材在畫面上的精準度，我一直不是很用心處理。 剛剛實在受不了，拿了描圖紙，單單純純認份地描繪著需要裁切的部份。 然後，再將素材襯在底下剪裁。 步驟多了，但是精準度增加不少。 有些事還是急不得，得要慢慢來。

[wanglewei]

工作日記121101

【工作日記121101】 再度是新的一個月！！ 沉迷於某些事物上，而剛剛終於決定徹底揮別！

[wanglewei]

工作日記121027

【工作日記121027】 前晚去拿訂製的畫布回家。 順道詢問老闆有無可能在畫布背後加襯一片薄木板，以支撐。 老闆說可以，又說了；其實在台灣最適合訂製畫布的季節是秋冬時節。 因為空氣乾燥，畫布的成份不至於吸收過多水分而造成一段時間後的鬆弛。 我又問，那麼這樣在秋冬時訂製的畫布，畫完後，到了夏季會不會又鬆掉？？ 老闆說不會，因為水分會撐大畫布。 不過，對於這個結論，我總感覺好像少了些什麼......