Hey All! Lets talk shadow puppets. I have a shadow puppet troupe, don't you know?! Right now we are calling ourselves The Wave Clamor Bellow Picture show but that is only because we perform with the band Waver Clamor Bellow. This band kicks some major behind... don't believe me? come see them perform at the very famous Christmas Horse venue Sunday, January 29th. Waver Clamor the band and the shadow puppet troupe are two different entities so the troupe needs it's own name. I may have thought of a name but I'm wondering if any of you have any better ideas? So my name is Shapes Language. Why would I call our troupe this? Well the back story is there's this scene in our shadow puppet show in which the main character learns 'the language of shapes' from a frightening alien whom she befriends. I also create these shadow puppets by connecting and manipulating different shapes. So beat that name Oh ye' mass of followers! Or tell me why my name isn't so good. I dare you!
And another thing...I am working on a new play right now. I am very excited to have Waver Clamor Bellow continuing to collaborate with me! my brother, (and puppet builder + performer) said it best during a shadow puppet meeting a few months ago when he said: "We're a team now!" How's that for sentimentalism! Yes it's true we are a team, a damn good one.
This new play will be the first of a series about man MADE NATURAL DISASTERS! whoa! I will concentrate first, on the oceans. I love the ocean don't you? The ocean is serene and calming and yet so very moody and powerful and capable of such destruction!!! Remember that remarkable google satellite footage of last year's Tsunami in Japan?! That was an ocean wave! What incredible force, right? And with this power we mess and pollute and waste. Man are we in trouble. So that is what my new shadow puppet show is about. 