Last night we had a standing ovation after the show so I thought that was well worth a mention on here 🙂
Only one review so far by a guy from The Metro who found it wasn’t his cup of tea, but this hasn’t stopped the good vibe being passed around by people who really have enjoyed it…
If you’re in Edinburgh, you can find me wandering around the Pleasance Courtyard of an evening looking something like this:
I’ve been VEGA$M-ing left right and centre for the past couple of weeks. Props and costumes are still being made (and will probably be being made right up until we need to go on stage for our first preview – there are so many!) but the show is shaping up very well indeed. There has been lots of giggling! Yesterday I had possibly the biggest headrush of my life whilst painting some set. Hehe – I’m still covered in paint today! Back off to rehearsals/making stuff this afternoon/evening. Think it’s our last run through tonight before we set off on Friday. Once we’re up and running in Edinburgh I plan to post reviews, or at least links to reviews, on here, if I can nab a computer every so often. Our first performance is a week today…
Well, it’s taken me more hours than I care to think about (I really should learn how to do all the whizzy things that my software almost certainly does or track down some freebie software that does at least one specific thing that I need…) but I have fiiiiinally uploaded my favourite photos from the photoshoot I had with Scott Hallman a couple of months back. There are some corkers! Take a gander at my gallery page if you fancy a nose through them.
…I’ve finished pencilling the first issue of Wet Shards!!
I need to run all the images past John and Vittoria of FoolishPeople next week, so there may be a few adjustments to be made before I start the inking, but right now I’m feeling in a bit of a celebratory mood 🙂
Rehearsals for VEGA$M are coming on apace. More on that soon…
Phew! I’ve just come round after being hit on the head repeatedly with a red Encyclopedia on Tuesday morning…
It was all in aid of the Cobra Vision short film competition being run by Cobra Beer. Won’t go into more detail now so’s not to spoil the filmakers’ chances but when I have a copy of the 5 second short I’m in, directed by Richard Merritt and Martin Christien, I’ll upload it for your sniggering pleasure 🙂
I will, however, just say for the record, that it was all done with mirrors.
Hehe…
It’s still all go with issue one of Wet Shards…
Currently I’m about a third of the way through the final pencilled version, so that’s 7 pages out of 22 sitting around waiting to be inked when it’s time to be inking. This picture is a section of one of the panels I’ve done so far. Not giving anything away 😉
On the VEGA$M front: my costume is almost finished and its a corker I can tell you! The pace will be picking up in the rest of this area very soon (from my end of things anyway – Brand X are already preparing things for the show at a rate of knots…)
Is it really June already?!
Sheesh.
There has been a whole lot of Maths going on in the world of Wet Shards. Lots of bits of paper covered with scribbled numbers (the majority being after a decimal point) and fractions, dappled with beads of sweat. Thankfully all that mind-bending stuff is seemingly out of the way and full on drawing drawing drawing has been occuring – again, a bit mind bending for my under-practiced brain cells but hugely enjoyable once they’ve warmed up! I’ve got myself a strict weekly schedule so pencilled pages shall be appearing at regular intervals. I may scan one or two of them to post somewhere on the site at some point…
Great news of the day: looks like I’m set to hit the Edinburgh Festival in a few months time with Brand X’s new show ‘VEGA$M‘!!
From past experience with Brand X I know for a fact that it’s going to be one helluva Summer in every way you can think of!
I’ll post updates as I get them, but for now – check out what you’re in store for here…
Yesterday I had a photo shoot courtesy of Scott Hallman of Funk Vision (the company I’m doing the short Horror Film with.) Lots of good piccies! I’ve got several hundred of them to sift through, so it will be a while until I’ve managed to find time to choose the best selection, but when I’ve done that they shall be straight up on my Gallery page! Will let you know when that’s done…
Wet Shards update: Most of the pictures have now been found. Only a handful left to get. Fingers crossed I shall be drawing away feverishly next week… Woo hoo!
As for today – Emma will be round in about 10 minutes so we can do some more work on our Sitcom Treatment. Teabags are at the ready! 🙂
Yesterday me and Emma sat in the Bank Holiday sun and did some more prep work for our sitcom. We are now the proud owners of six back-of-a-dvd/television-guide type blurbs – one for each of our planned episodes. It took some work to whittle our complicated plots down to this size whilst still retaining their quirkyness, but we got there in the end with the aid of a couple of cups of tea, some nice biscuits and a smattering of birdsong. Now to rejig the treatment a bit and write a few short taster sections of dialogue…
On the Wet Shards front, Vittoria from FP has been trawling through Google image search as well, finding some great pictures, so the list of stuff to find gets ever smaller and the inking of issue one gets ever closer. My deadline is the end of this month. That really doesn’t feel very far away in the slightest…
