The Shining

Yes. This.

Dave's set design for Who Let the Ghosts Out?, which opened today at Magik. It has two main pieces: (1) a house front that pivots around a central point, and (2) a periaktos, a 3-sided piece set within the circle formed by the moving house front and that pivots around the same central point on stage. Here's Dave's design video, followed by some stills of the finished set.

House front

The periaktos - living room side (see the back of the house front?)

A look at the frame and pole forming the central pivot

But Not This.

Didn't make writing time yesterday because of special events at the Theatre. Have to wait till late today, but will make time.

Mayor of Nerdville

I invested in an iPad2 for 3 main reasons: to Skype with family and friends, to have a lighter typing device for travel, and to deposit our paychecks. I just did the check thing. It's thrilling every time. I also read on it every day. I didn't think I'd take to the larger screen, but I like seeing a book's text in context -- more lines on the page, more white space. I read holding it landscape-style, so that (in iBooks anyway) two pages show side by side. More than once (embarrassingly often, really) I catch my fingers moving to turn a 3D page.

Shhh, Don't Tell...

...but R. L. Stine is at our theatre for the opening of Who Let the Ghosts Out? and I've spent some time with him the past two days doing school-related events, and when he asks, "Who's read a Goosebumps book?" I can't raise my hand. I have read the two Mostly Ghostly books on which Magik's production is based, but I was graduating college when Goosebumps came out.

Question of the Day

Do you have a favorite scary book? What is it?