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I know Davy was the shortest Monkee, but I didn't think he'd have the shortest life.
I think I'll tell you my whole Davy story.
When I was younger, I thought The Monkees were better than The Beatles. Then I realized the Beatles actually wrote their own stuff and that they were kind of cute, too. This was when I decided The Beatles were better and I would completely disassociate myself from The Monkees. Forever. There couldn't be anything The Monkees could offer me that the Beatles hadn't done better.
Fast forward ten years to the moment God led me to find a videotape in my crawlspace; it was dusty, the footage was blurry, bad quality. I had to find a VCR to play it, too, and on top of all that, I was actually too embarrassed to watch it with anybody else. Who knew what this was going to be. I was older, but I still wondered why I had liked them so much for all that time. I couldn't remember their faces or names or any of the reasons they had made me laugh. I mean, I was only about five or six when this seemed like the greatest show on earth (it was kind of a circus). Was it possible it could be even a tiny bit funny to me now?
On that tape were four episodes of The Monkees: Monkee vs. Machine, Hitting the High Seas, Fairy Tale and Mijacogeo. There was one episode from the first season and the other three from the second. These were the only four episodes I'd watched over and over as a kid (and on that same tape, too). Sometimes, as I watched them, I could remember a line or someone mugging, definitely that time when the plastic pie explodes ...
I'd wanted to enjoy the show but when I sat down to watch it, I thought that would be hard work. The whole thing hit me over the head: I didn't even have to try. They were having fun; I was having fun. For real? Was it possible that some show from the 60s was actually entertaining me? I'd never watched old television! Why was I laughing so much? What was going on?! These ridiculous boys - truly, just the most absurd mix of personalities - just ran around surrounded in bizarre shenanigans and witty banter, all at the same time singing and "Want to read my palm?" "No, I'll wait 'til they make it into a movie." They weren't swearing or smoking and all we ever saw them drink was milk. They were in the middle of the 1968 craze of "love" (sex) and "peace" (political unrest), and whatever happened off screen, I'll never know. But to me? When you put them all together, I just saw four good-natured, lovable and unreasonably hilarious boys. They were funny! So funny!
That was when I realized: I could have both. The Beatles and The Monkees. OBVIOUSLY!
Micky was my favorite when I was little. Micky and Davy are soo tied for first.
But you guys - Davy Jones isn't very difficult to fall in love with, especially since that's what they wanted to happen. Obviously, he was the cute one, but there was more than that because he was the performer. He was the one who was there and knew what he'd signed up for. This little guy with this huge personality and this glow and, of course, his british accent. Davy Jones...
I got the seasons - the first for my birthday, the second for Christmas - and after
I'd seen all the episodes, their music defined my summer.
Then, a year and a half ago, I got to see Davy in concert. Nerves. For one reason or another, I was terrified, maybe because we had third row seats and I wasn't sure I could handle it. But did you know that when he was younger, he was on broadway in Oliver! and played the Artful Dodger? It just so happens that the Artful Dodger is my favorite Oliver! character, and his character's big song is called, "Consider Yourself". When Davy Jones walked out on stage and started talking, he welcomed everybody and then started singing that song. The air conditioner was broken in the theater he was performing at, and on a June night outside Chicago, everywhere was pretty humid. But when I think back on that concert, it doesn't seem like anything could have gone better.
Once, during the concert, a hysterical fan in the balcony screeched, "I LOVE YOU, DAVY" and there was a second of silence while he squinted up there. And then, Davy said, "Ahh, well. Looks like my sister's here again."
A week ago, a little after 12:30 pm, everything changed for me again. While I was curling my hair or sitting in French class, Davy was having a heart attack. And at some point during my regular Wednesday routine - stapling papers, filling in vocab blanks - he just went.
There's this moment in the show that keeps popping into my head. The episode's called "Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers" - the fourth episode of the first season. They still matched their outfits, no one was famous, they were just starting out. This is how I always think of them. So, imagine: there's the four boys in their scarce, high-ceilinged beach house. Mike's jumping around on a pogo stick, Peter's shaking a soapy drink tumbler (which, to him, is just a device in which you wash your socks), Micky's impersonating Groucho Marx, and Davy - Davy's on an armchair balancing on his head. A scheming publicist walks in, trying to get on their good side so that he can walk all over them. And then, the publicist asks them, "Don't you want to be famous? The idol of millions?" And then Davy, still balancing on his head, simply replies, "No. We just want to be revered by a small minority."
"No. We just want to be revered by a small minority."
I'm happy to be part of that minority. I'm happy for all the people that they have made laugh, once or a thousand times, and for the people who can see the joy in their humor. That we get to love them, not idolize them. We get to laugh with them. They're still the underdog.
----
There's another episode in the first six episodes aired on TV. It's called Success Story, and it's about how the boys had to lie to Davy's grandpa; Davy had told him that he was rich and famous. Davy wasn't. When all is said and done, his grandpa calls their bluff and tries to take Davy back to England with him. At the foot of the spiral staircase, the boys all stand there to see Davy off. That's when Davy said it: "I hate good-byes."
He is still such a part of my life and I know he will continue to be.
Davy: "I hate good-byes."
Micky: "Okay. Welcome to America, Davy."
It all started 20-30 years ago when my father began collection beer cans as a teenager. That quickly grew into signs, posters, lights, and other random beer related objects. Once he had my brother and I it came to a halt and everything was packed away into boxes in our crawlspace for the next 20 years.
After quickly filling up one side of the garage with bottles from his mission to taste many different beers, he set out to transform our normal 2 car garage into a beer lovers dream world.
The left wall is consumed with close to 500 different bottles of beer, not one bottle goes on the wall unless he's drank it! The rafters of the garage are filled with cans dating back 20 and 30 years... some even more. Mounted to those same rafters are two 22" flat screen TVs. The right side wall is covered partially with beer steins, glasses, shot glasses, and some very special bottles of beer including a "Thank you for your support" bottle from Budweiser that only distributors received and a Batch19 bottle that was used as promotion but never bottled since. The rest of the right wall and part of the rear wall contain beer signs that date back 20+ years. The remaining portion of the rear wall contains a "BEER ONLY" fridge and a tool bench that doubles as a bar, complete with bar stools. You'll also notice along the wall two bar style high tables and chairs.
The collection continues to grow every day as he finds beers he's never tried before, signs he's never seen before, or things that just catch his eye.
If you have any suggestions on what beer to try, would like to donate something to the Garage Bar, or would simply like to show some love, please leave it in the comments below or message me.
Asbestos magnesia insulation debris and a vintage Lucky Strike cigarette package found in an occupied building's crawlspace. Supposedly, this building had undergone a thorough inspection just months prior without any such discoveries.
Based on the general condition and type of insulation, as well as the presence of the vintage Lucky Strike package amongst the debris, these materials appear to be original construction discards; perhaps while a worker smoked the Lucky Strike cigarettes installing friable magnesia asbestos insulation (of course, not recommended nowadays).
Kenneth Ray Parker was 16 years old when he disappeared in 1976. He was kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered by John Wayne Gacy, Jr. In 1978 his remains were found buried in the crawlspace under Gacy's house along with 25 other murder victims. Gacy killed at least 33 teenage boys and young men.
He was executed on May 10, 1994.
Kenneth is buried near another Gacy murder victim, Randall W. Reffett.
Located in Rosehill Cemetery, 5800 N. Ravenswood Avenue.
Randall W. Reffett was 15 years old when he disappeared in 1976. He was kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered by John Wayne Gacy, Jr. In 1978 his remains were found buried in the crawlspace under Gacy's house along with 25 other murder victims. Gacy killed at least 33 teenage boys and young men.
He was executed on May 10, 1994.
Randall is buried near his mother Myrtle and another Gacy murder victim, Kenneth Ray Parker.
Located in Rosehill Cemetery, 5800 N. Ravenswood Avenue
Trimmed out the edges to fill the terrible heart-aching gaps of death. Still have to sand it in places, put plugs into the screw holes, and brush on a coat of polyurethane. So glad this is almost done...it was way more complicated than I thought it would be,
Utility tunnel with asbestos-insulated pipes and a variety of debris materials, including asbestos insulation.
Carolyn attempts to show the scope of the wetness with a video. At 0:35, she is totally touching that spider egg! Nooooo!
House crisis! Our crawlspace was flooding, and leaking into other rooms. We finally were able to fix it by having a handyman come and fill in a big crack in our foundation. (Claire had bought cement for us to do this ourselves about a year ago, but we never got around to it.) ....... But in the meanwhile, we needed to document the extent of things. Plus, Claire has never even seen this part of the house. It's very hard to get into. Carolyn has to climb up on top of the utility room sink, and generally be boosted by Claire, and then shimmy in. You can't even kneel in this crawlspace. It's a literal crawl space.
Carolyn.
narrating, pointing.
board, dirt, flood, floor, grate, ground, mud, pipe, rocks, rust, spider egg, spider webs, wall, water, wire.
crawlspace, Claire and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 2, 2018.
STUDIO CITY - A man performing a heater repair in the crawlspace beneath a two story home was able to escape with minor injury, when an accidental fire erupted on December 12, 2013. Los Angeles Firefighters had the flames extinguished in less than twenty minutes. © Photo by Juan Guerra
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It's rare that a cat gets use of our "funny face" tag, but here is a appropriate example. What were you thinking, Lemonjello?
Lemonjello the cat, brick wall, broken window, kudzu, peeling paint, telephone box.
edited. funny face.
side yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 19, 2010.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: We staged some photos to re-create The Great Cat Escape Of 2010. Lemonjello, the inferior cat, is superior in a select few ways: And one of those is warning Clint that something is up. When Oranjello was trapped in the crawlspace, Lemonjello literally meowed and led Clint, 5 feet at a time, to the door of the crawlspace.
This other morning, he meowed with similar alarm and tone -- a meow that is even worse than his normal annoying whiny meows. He led me to the living room, where I immediately felt the heat coming in from the missing pane. It fell 4 feet, but did not break (SLACK!). Being a cat-related endeavor, it fell to Carolyn to deal with the consequences. It was all of $3 to fix.
Yes, this window is in terrible condition, as is the sill. It looked especially worse when we put new siding on the house (the rest of our house had looked like that). I don't really see a point in upkeeping them (Repair? Yes. Upkeep? No.) since they really need to be replaced with 2-pane energy efficient windows anyway. It could definitely use a fresh coat of paint. In the interim, we simply put pillows over the hole. This kept the cats in and the heat out. Fortunately, they never go too far when they get out... But right before fixing it, we decided to take some pictures of the unique situation!
This photo was inspired by myrmician's awesome scorpion photo and his comment about getting the eyes (ocelli) and fangs (chelicerae) both in focus.
I "just happened to be opening crawlspace doors" today when I stumbled on a lovely spider of a species I have never photographed. She had a very dusty dishevelled web with a few very dried-up former meals on the floor below. She did not seem inclined to pose for me, so I fed her an ant.
Most spiders carefully spin silk around their catch staying far away for a while before closing in for the first bite, but she dove in and bit it within seconds, then kept biting it every minute or so for about 15 minutes. Her eager hunger actually frightened me at one point and I had to remind myself that what I was viewing through the lens was only about 7mm long.
For this shot, I reversed my 60mm lens and mounted it on my 210mm zoom with painters' tape (hence the vingetting). Then I taped the flash on top of the whole shebang! Good to view large!
I also took a closeup of her meal.
Incidentally, this is roughly my 5,000th picture with my D50 which I got May 10th of this year.
STUDIO CITY - A man performing a heater repair in the crawlspace beneath a two story home was able to escape with minor injury, when an accidental fire erupted on December 12, 2013. Los Angeles Firefighters had the flames extinguished in less than twenty minutes. © Photo by Juan Guerra
LAFD.ORG | Blog | Facebook | Twitter @LAFD @LAFDtalk | Reddit
Gold, caramel, tortoise shell, honey. Such a beautiful winged creature with its glossy compound eyes, antennae and long narrow wings! And I love its protective stanch as it stands over its papery nest.
The term "hornet" (like "yellow jacket") refers to a kind of wasp that builds a large papery nest. One type of hornet, the baldfaced hornet, is black and white and about ¾" long. They tend to build mottled gray nests in trees or shrubs. Occasionally, they will build nests under roof overhangs, in attics, crawlspaces, and walls, or under decks or porches. The nests, which are generally pear-shaped, are constructed of a paper-like material formed from chewed wood. These hornets like to feed on flies and other insects.
Yellow jackets, by contrast, are the size of house flies, with distinct yellow and black markings. They build a very similar nest, but it is tan in color, smaller in size than a hornet's nest, and is usually found in an underground cavity such as an abandoned rodent burrow. Occasionally, yellow jackets nest in attics or walls. Yellow jackets are scavengers and are usually encountered at cookouts and around dumpsters and trash barrels.
Wasp is a name applied to many winged insects of the order Hymenoptera, which also includes ants and bees. Most wasps are carnivorous, feeding on insects, grubs or spiders. They have biting mouthparts, and the females have stings with which they paralyze their prey. The stinger can be used repeatedly. The thorax of a wasp is attached to the abdomen by a narrow stalk (hence the term “wasp-waisted”). Some wasps are solid black or dark blue, but most have red, orange, or yellow wings or markings. Stripes are common. The great majority of the 20,000 species are solitary, but one family (the Vespidae) includes both social forms (the paper wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets) and solitary forms (e.g., the potter wasps).
I know all too well that these elegant beauties can go into attack at any moment. I picked up a bag someone carelessly discarded. Unknown to the environmentally sensitive trash cleaner in me, the bag had a Chinese food honey pack inside. And a swarm of wasps that attached me and sting me numerous times! Painful for a day or so.
Golden Paper Wasp. Paper Wasp, Polistes fuscatus.
Arch Creek East Environmental Preserve, North Miami, FL.
See my sets, Woods, weeds and streams. And Lubbers, Butterflies and Bees.
A pile of asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) found in a building's crawlspace; debris which poses potential exposure issues for maintenance personnel and other building occupants.
Presently, millions of tons of ACMs still remain in our nations' buildings and infrastructure, all of which require continuous, diligent monitoring for protection of workers and everyone around these hazardous materials.
Whether they're damaged by any number of destructive forces, such as work-related activities, weathering, deterioration, excessive moisture, etc., ACMs must be properly inspected for the duration of their life-cycle to help avoid preventable exposures, for generations to come. Sooner or later asbestos becomes someone's problem.
Narrow basement crawlspace of an older building with stonewall foundation depicting damaged sections of abandoned ductwork with asbestos paper insulation. Background of image shows portion of the ductwork had been apparently crushed in the vicinity of modern computer and electronic cabling, likely by technician installing and crawling over the asbestos-covered metal ducts.
MOOSEHEART FAITH - Face on Mars 7"
Rare modern psych with members of the Angry Samoans and Crawlspace, released in 1999 and limited to a 500 copy run, the record sleeve was designed as a sheet of blotter art, some came ready perforated and some un-perforated, it would be interesting to find out if anyone dosed these?
The Mooseheart Faith
"The Face on Mars"
7" vinyl 33RPM EP
Behemoth Records - BET 23
1999
This 'big face' Count Chocula box from 1978 offered a Star Wars card free inside. Another cool monster box from Spike's Crawlspace, even if it is a little rough around the edges.
Metaverse Shakespeare Company’s 2010 Main Canon: Twelfth Night, Act 2
– Open-Ended Run
Shakespeare, Second Life—The Metaverse Shakespeare Company (MSC),
formerly SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC), next Tuesday will open its
long-awaited 2010 Main Canon production of Twelfth Night, Act 2—“As
you will it!” in an open-ended run to occur every Tuesday at 6 PM SLT
(PT), and every Sunday at 1 PM SLT (PT). Set to occur at the 4-sim SL
Globe Theatre (http://visit.mshakespeare.com) in the virtual world of
Second Life—this live theatrical performance, available anywhere with
an Internet connection, continues the troupe’s 2009 production of
Twelfth Night, Act 1—but, with a fresher, riper take, and its own
amalgam of the year’s innovations in virtual theatre.
Artistic Director Ina Centaur has crafted an interpretation that
conveys the topsy-turvy nature of the play and the era of its
creation, without being bound by the constraints of a
historically-accurate production, “Even though this production is set
in a pre-modernity ‘generic past,’ there’s still plenty of Elizabethan
bawdry and notions… There’s the presentation of class-crossing as a
ridicule-prone absurdity and some intense visual portrayal of that
heavily-cozy-explicit language—with a wild bit where a drunk-betimes
Sir Toby Belch urinates live on-stage to ‘[fill] an unfill’d can
(II.iii).’ Says Centaur on the music of Twelfth Night and the spirit
of the open-ended run, “We’re providing sheet music and
instrumental-only clips for all of our songs on the mShakespeare Blog,
so that audience members can sing along with our live show (with their
SL mic’s off, in the privacy of their own home) or in their own
Metaverse Shakespeare theatre-inspired karaoke events... For most
shows, we’re sticking with an orthodox interpretation and traditional
songs, drawn from eras before and Shakespeare’s contemporaries. But,
this being an open-ended run, be braced for variations, and character
metamorphosis—in both act and appearance.”
This Open-Ended run of Twelfth Night, Act 2—“As you will it!”, like
Act 1, will evolve into a final form, per audience interaction on the
play’s progression. These interpretations are based on archetypes,
grounded in the play’s intrinsic elements, such as character
relationships. In April, the troupe will begin weaving “Variations” to
its main interpretation, where certain characters will undergo some
dramatic metamorphoses. Antonio and Sebastian will oscillate between
varying degrees of a close-friendship, from the orthodox
interpretation of caring-companionship to, in the words of Artistic
Director Ina Centaur, “a homo-erotic or quasi-masochistic
relationship... to finally settle down and arrive at the one that fits
best!” Most curiously, Malvolio, that time-weathered face, will
de-age, becoming, as described by an anonymous patron, “a complexion
that e’en you may fancy”, in the virtual world’s take on new
scholarship interpretations of Shakespeare’s tragic villain-victim as
a young man. For select shows, gender-experimentation interpretations
will manifest in all-female or all-male or even switched-gender
productions of the play. The troupe will once again show its April
Fools “Super Spoof” edition in a special performance on Thursday,
April 1, that will explore the character relations of Shakespeare’s
Twelfth Night via a medley of parodies inspired by popular modern
shows.
While this will be the troupe’s first production under its new name of
Metaverse Shakespeare Company, Centaur asserts that the production
continues to uphold the company’s founding ideals of creating quality,
memorable productions, while developing this nascent field of virtual
theatre, “As with every Main Canon production, we spend about a
thousand hours rehearsing and analyzing, building and designing, and
also applying new technologies to virtual theatre… For Twelfth Night,
Act 2, our three technological innovations include the usage of
physics, moving automatons, and visual illusion on the virtual stage.
You’ll see physics on-stage, in both built-in and scripted forms in
our apple catches in Scene 3, and wilting rose motif in Scene 4—and,
in the crawlspace of Scene 3, you’d see prim-based automaton actors in
the form of rats!”
Special to this production, the MSC introduces the concept of
“crowdsourced interactive set design,” which allows anyone to submit a
graffiti message or poster/flyer idea to be plastered onto the “City
Wall of Illyria” set in Act 2, Scene 1. More details at
The live show, presented via SL Voice, is also available in
closed-captioning with dynamic subtitles in English, Esperanto,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.
The play stars Alestria Corryong, Caliban Jigsaw, Constantine Paulino,
Ina Centaur, Kerry Takashi, and Pipsqueak Albatros, with additional
guest actors to appear in select shows.
Starting March 2, shows occur
Tuesdays at 6 PM SLT (PT)
Sundays at 1 PM SLT (PT)
only at the SL Globe Theatre at Shakespeare (255,255,25), Second Life
All shows are free (“pay as you will”), except for VIP performances,
occurring on the last Tuesday and Sunday of each performance month.
About Twelfth Night, Act 2
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a multiplot story with plentiful songs
and bawdry topsy-turviness. On one hand it’s the story of a
shipwrecked girl named Viola, whose choice to go incognito as a boy
eunuch results in myriad complications—including a gender-bending love
triangle. On another, it chronicles the fallacious rise and tragic
fall of a Puritanical steward named Malvolio, who becomes a victim of
his too-lofty dream. Act 2 sets the basics for his downfall—his
dysfunctional relationship with the other servants provokes a
practical joke involving a certain forged letter, that would
eventually ruin him—but, Act 2 sparks only of joviality; tragedy is
due in a later act.
About the Metaverse Shakespeare Company (mShakespeare)
Headquartered in the virtual world of Second Life (SL), the Metaverse
Shakespeare Company (MSC) is the flagship project of sLiterary’s
Virtual Reality Shakespeare Initiative (VRSI). MSC is a professional
virtual theatre company that embraces the best of what the metaverse
has to offer. While it is primarily known to provide quality live
Shakespearean theatre available to anyone in any location, MSC is also
the curator of the most historically accurate theatres and
architecture in virtual worlds relating to William Shakespeare.
Website: mshakespeare.com
Press Center: mshakespeare.com/press
Blog: blog.mshakespeare.com
Playbills: playbills.mshakespeare.com
Programmes: programmes.mshakespeare.com
About sLiterary
sLiterary, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering
literary and artistic endeavors in Second Life and other virtual
worlds.
About Second Life
Second Life is a free online virtual world imagined and created by its
residents.
Neither the Metaverse Shakespeare Company nor sLiterary is affiliated
with Linden Lab. Second Life is a trademark of Linden Lab. No
infringement is intended.
Some may believe asbestos a problem of the past; however, there are many places asbestos is a problem today.
The upper one looks insect-eaten, though the white spots might be fungi.
The lower one looks like a piece of wood that has been on fire- oxidized, not chewed. It had more little rectangular bits that fell off when I moved it. I've seen this pattern on a lot of firewood, large or small, split, broken to length or even sawn lumber, like this, tossed into a fire. Burned wooden structures too, come to think of it.
So it suffered some kind of rot, while in contact with damp ground. Suggestions?
These were the faces of 4X4 aka 10cm X 10cm timbers a dreaded previous owner left in the crawl space under our house. At least 26 years ago. I split them so they were acceptable in our green-waste recycling bin (Maximum branch size is 4 inch / 10cm diameter, that or larger, and square, seem excessive)
Metaverse Shakespeare Company’s 2010 Main Canon: Twelfth Night, Act 2
– Open-Ended Run
Shakespeare, Second Life—The Metaverse Shakespeare Company (MSC),
formerly SL Shakespeare Company (SLSC), next Tuesday will open its
long-awaited 2010 Main Canon production of Twelfth Night, Act 2—“As
you will it!” in an open-ended run to occur every Tuesday at 6 PM SLT
(PT), and every Sunday at 1 PM SLT (PT). Set to occur at the 4-sim SL
Globe Theatre (http://visit.mshakespeare.com) in the virtual world of
Second Life—this live theatrical performance, available anywhere with
an Internet connection, continues the troupe’s 2009 production of
Twelfth Night, Act 1—but, with a fresher, riper take, and its own
amalgam of the year’s innovations in virtual theatre.
Artistic Director Ina Centaur has crafted an interpretation that
conveys the topsy-turvy nature of the play and the era of its
creation, without being bound by the constraints of a
historically-accurate production, “Even though this production is set
in a pre-modernity ‘generic past,’ there’s still plenty of Elizabethan
bawdry and notions… There’s the presentation of class-crossing as a
ridicule-prone absurdity and some intense visual portrayal of that
heavily-cozy-explicit language—with a wild bit where a drunk-betimes
Sir Toby Belch urinates live on-stage to ‘[fill] an unfill’d can
(II.iii).’ Says Centaur on the music of Twelfth Night and the spirit
of the open-ended run, “We’re providing sheet music and
instrumental-only clips for all of our songs on the mShakespeare Blog,
so that audience members can sing along with our live show (with their
SL mic’s off, in the privacy of their own home) or in their own
Metaverse Shakespeare theatre-inspired karaoke events... For most
shows, we’re sticking with an orthodox interpretation and traditional
songs, drawn from eras before and Shakespeare’s contemporaries. But,
this being an open-ended run, be braced for variations, and character
metamorphosis—in both act and appearance.”
This Open-Ended run of Twelfth Night, Act 2—“As you will it!”, like
Act 1, will evolve into a final form, per audience interaction on the
play’s progression. These interpretations are based on archetypes,
grounded in the play’s intrinsic elements, such as character
relationships. In April, the troupe will begin weaving “Variations” to
its main interpretation, where certain characters will undergo some
dramatic metamorphoses. Antonio and Sebastian will oscillate between
varying degrees of a close-friendship, from the orthodox
interpretation of caring-companionship to, in the words of Artistic
Director Ina Centaur, “a homo-erotic or quasi-masochistic
relationship... to finally settle down and arrive at the one that fits
best!” Most curiously, Malvolio, that time-weathered face, will
de-age, becoming, as described by an anonymous patron, “a complexion
that e’en you may fancy”, in the virtual world’s take on new
scholarship interpretations of Shakespeare’s tragic villain-victim as
a young man. For select shows, gender-experimentation interpretations
will manifest in all-female or all-male or even switched-gender
productions of the play. The troupe will once again show its April
Fools “Super Spoof” edition in a special performance on Thursday,
April 1, that will explore the character relations of Shakespeare’s
Twelfth Night via a medley of parodies inspired by popular modern
shows.
While this will be the troupe’s first production under its new name of
Metaverse Shakespeare Company, Centaur asserts that the production
continues to uphold the company’s founding ideals of creating quality,
memorable productions, while developing this nascent field of virtual
theatre, “As with every Main Canon production, we spend about a
thousand hours rehearsing and analyzing, building and designing, and
also applying new technologies to virtual theatre… For Twelfth Night,
Act 2, our three technological innovations include the usage of
physics, moving automatons, and visual illusion on the virtual stage.
You’ll see physics on-stage, in both built-in and scripted forms in
our apple catches in Scene 3, and wilting rose motif in Scene 4—and,
in the crawlspace of Scene 3, you’d see prim-based automaton actors in
the form of rats!”
Special to this production, the MSC introduces the concept of
“crowdsourced interactive set design,” which allows anyone to submit a
graffiti message or poster/flyer idea to be plastered onto the “City
Wall of Illyria” set in Act 2, Scene 1. More details at
The live show, presented via SL Voice, is also available in
closed-captioning with dynamic subtitles in English, Esperanto,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.
The play stars Alestria Corryong, Caliban Jigsaw, Constantine Paulino,
Ina Centaur, Kerry Takashi, and Pipsqueak Albatros, with additional
guest actors to appear in select shows.
Starting March 2, shows occur
Tuesdays at 6 PM SLT (PT)
Sundays at 1 PM SLT (PT)
only at the SL Globe Theatre at Shakespeare (255,255,25), Second Life
All shows are free (“pay as you will”), except for VIP performances,
occurring on the last Tuesday and Sunday of each performance month.
About Twelfth Night, Act 2
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a multiplot story with plentiful songs
and bawdry topsy-turviness. On one hand it’s the story of a
shipwrecked girl named Viola, whose choice to go incognito as a boy
eunuch results in myriad complications—including a gender-bending love
triangle. On another, it chronicles the fallacious rise and tragic
fall of a Puritanical steward named Malvolio, who becomes a victim of
his too-lofty dream. Act 2 sets the basics for his downfall—his
dysfunctional relationship with the other servants provokes a
practical joke involving a certain forged letter, that would
eventually ruin him—but, Act 2 sparks only of joviality; tragedy is
due in a later act.
About the Metaverse Shakespeare Company (mShakespeare)
Headquartered in the virtual world of Second Life (SL), the Metaverse
Shakespeare Company (MSC) is the flagship project of sLiterary’s
Virtual Reality Shakespeare Initiative (VRSI). MSC is a professional
virtual theatre company that embraces the best of what the metaverse
has to offer. While it is primarily known to provide quality live
Shakespearean theatre available to anyone in any location, MSC is also
the curator of the most historically accurate theatres and
architecture in virtual worlds relating to William Shakespeare.
Website: mshakespeare.com
Press Center: mshakespeare.com/press
Blog: blog.mshakespeare.com
Playbills: playbills.mshakespeare.com
Programmes: programmes.mshakespeare.com
About sLiterary
sLiterary, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering
literary and artistic endeavors in Second Life and other virtual
worlds.
About Second Life
Second Life is a free online virtual world imagined and created by its
residents.
Neither the Metaverse Shakespeare Company nor sLiterary is affiliated
with Linden Lab. Second Life is a trademark of Linden Lab. No
infringement is intended.
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