The Slopera

Here's my life as it currently is. I just got back from visiting Josh's family in Idaho, which was a blast. I got to meet Joe and Mandy (his brother and sister in law) as well as their three kids Katie, Alyssa, and Presley. Jake, Rachel, Chris, and Larry were there also with Jake and Rachel's kids Brynn and Eli bringing the grand total of people in the house to 13. It was crazy but really fun :) Can't wait until we get Annie there with her husband and four kids, then we'll really have a full fledged part going on.

So now that I'm back from my fun weekend it's back to work. I'm the assistant makeup designer for BYU's production of the Opera "Tales of Hoffman". We're in dress rehearsals all week and we start the actual show this saturday. It runs until next saturday which actually isn't really a very long run but with seven hour rehearsals all week this week it sure feels long. Luckily we don't have a whole lot of makeup to do like we did on Macbeth, this show we just have 35 people to wig and some hair to whiten. Nothing I can't handle :) Plus we have tons of people to volunteer with the wigging process so that helps a lot.
Olympia the mechanical doll in "Tales of Hoffman" I really like her makeup design. Every time she blinks those eyelashes I get whiplash!


Dr. Miracle in "Tales of Hoffman"



As far as the book goes I'm still doing my final revisions that Mike Eberhardt gave me to do and then I'll send it off to him and see if he wants to send it to his agent. If not I'll send it off to Michele Bell (An author in Utah) and she said she'd love to market it regionally. So keep your fingers crossed and we'll see what happens!

My Book Cover

Alright here it is officially! My book cover :) The photo was taken by Trent Davis and the layout was done by Jackie Hicken.

Bandits

Courtney ( http://youarewhatyouloveagain.blogspot.com/ ) has shown me just how much of a slacker I am as far as updating my blog goes so I am officially vowing to be better. Done. Consider it vowed.

So I just returned from my History of film class and we watched "Bonnie and Clyde" which I have to say is quite brilliant and makes me really want to watch "Bandits".

This month has been full of craziness as we're getting closer to shooting "Inspector 42" and the run of "Macbeth" starts. Sadly I won't be able to actually be on set for "Inspector 42" because I'll be tattooing billions of people for "Macbeth"... though getting to use the airbrush machine might actually make up for it. I will, however, have perpetually stained black hands for a month... so that's the pits. But here is the beautiful old abandon elementary school that we've begun to transform into a shirt factory from the 1950's for "Inspector 42"



PS the movie is in black and white... hence the black and White photo.



These are the inspector stations.

And now... for the book (you knew it was coming you just didn't know when). The book has gone through it's official final edit. The copyright is in the mail on it's way to Draper. The cover photo has been shot. And I am getting everything compiled to send of to D.C. where Jackie will put it into book form. What does this mean? This means I should have a bound copy of my book in a few weeks! This is basically the most exciting news in the world in case you were wondering. I wish I could just throw copies of my book off of a building so everyone would read it... but sadly I actually have to charge for it (Probably about $10 depending on how much it costs to bind it) which makes me feel bad but in fact, I don't have hundreds of dollars to throw around. Hopefully one day it'll get published and my publisher will take care of that but we'll just have to see. I'll be sending copies off to various literary agents pretty soon so keep your fingers crossed... which I suppose is an ironic thing to say since that's the cover of my book. I wanted to wait until I had the title on it to post the cover art but Jackie is tragically busy in D.C. so I'll just post the unfinished photo for your viewing enjoyment :)

"It's Not You It's Me"




So that's my life right now. Enjoy :)

Uphill both ways

So it's been snowing here in Provo for about three days straight and it pretty much feels like I'm walking to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways. I got back from winter break and literally had to let my car slide into a parking spot. Luckily there weren't many other cars around. So I decided to go to the grocery store yesterday and figured my best bet would be to put my car into four wheel drive but in order to do that I have to turn these locks on my two front wheels and I could only get one of them in place. Thinking that would be better than nothing I tried to pull out of the spot but the back of my car just kind of swung from side to side and when I put my foot on the break my front wheel kept spinning so I put the car into park and it made that horrible noise that a car makes when a person who can't drive a stick shift tries to and it kind of goes reeeeeeeeaaaaarrrrrrrruuuuggghhhh. So I think I broke it... we'll see.

In other news this semester may well kill me. There's a student film I'd like to try out for but I don't think I'll have time with all this other stuff. I'm still working on "Picture of Dorian Gray" until about mid-February and this semester we start production on "Inspector 42"... I don't act in that however, I'm in the art department. On top of all that though my makeup class this semester is intense. For an assignment I have to supervise one of the BYU productions so I chose Macbeth... this means I have to be there for all the dress rehearsals, makeup training days, photocalls, and the run of the show. I have to be one of the first people there and one of the last to leave. Also, I'll have to supervise the beginning makeup students, making sure their doing everything right. Now this would be intimidating normally but this show is extra scary because they're doing tattoos that appear gradually throughout the show which means I'll have to be airbrushing tattoos onto actors backstage during the show... scary. Also since just about everybody dies in Macbeth there's lots of injury makeup I'll have to do pretty quickly backstage... lots of blood. Also, every single person in the cast is wearing a wig. Why the boys need to wear wigs is beyond me but that's just what happens I suppose. So yeah, it's going to be an insanely busy semester but hopefully I'll live.

So far no news on the book front. I'm still waiting for the copyright to come in and I've arranged for my friend to shoot the cover of the book for me. Then I'll buy a UPC for the book so that it can be sold and my roommate Jackie will design the cover and format the book since she knows inDesign really well.

Picture of Dorian Gray trailer

Alright this is the official trailer for the indie film I'm in based on Oscar Wilde's novel "Picture of Dorian Gray"... keep in mind we didn't have our boom for my scene in the pink dress so it's not entirely my fault that you can't understand a word I'm saying. Also, A major motion picture studio is currently working on a version of this story with Ben Barnes and Rachel Hurwood... I'm not sure how much this will affect us but it's kind of irksome that they'll get all the publicity and we may get compared to them even though our budget is completely nonexistent and their's is unending. /end rant. Enjoy the trailer :)


Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8FlV3dFqMc