View Full Version : Just a little bit of fun news (that's right, FUN)
ariastar
07-06-2008, 12:38 AM
I've already shared this with Skyz and Joel, and I guess I may as well share it here too since how often do I have fun stuff to talk about? :)
So I've given up on the job-hunting for right now (don't start a discussion on that, just don't), and went off and through some events, as in I decided to take a costuming class for the hell of it since I don't normally do costuming, and was the only one who knew how to sew, and so the others quit, so the instructor decided to invite me to do something else...wow, this has kind of already gotten to where it doesn't make sense.
Anyway, I'm going to be assisting in costuming a musical called The Pajama Game at the Smithwick Theater. I'm not gonna go off making a million bucks. Indeed, it's a community theater with next to nil for this musical. But it'll look good, I think, on my website to say I did it and to be able to show photos of some of my stuff on stage.
And I could scream because I just found out that the head costumer for the winter and spring productions is also the costumer for the San Jose Opera, but we won't be here then. So oh the pain of that! Oh well. I get to go play around with sewing stuff and vintage garments. That is happy stuff.
shandavio
07-06-2008, 01:29 AM
What... congratulations?
that's so great
it's perfect for you
and you will get paid at least some $
as far as the other distance is not necessarily fatal
send them some sketches
at least they'll know who you are and what you can do
i'm really happy
i love clothes
i adore oiginals
ariastar
07-06-2008, 02:02 AM
What... congratulations?
I think you should sit back and read the forum for a while before speaking. Learn what's what around here, what's going on, etc..
ariastar
07-06-2008, 02:03 AM
What... congratulations?
You need to sit back and read the forum for a while before speaking. Learn what's what around here, what's going on, etc..
rabidbadger
07-06-2008, 02:07 AM
That is so awesome aria! and don't worry about the opera folks, do the great job I know that you will, and they will hear about it and seek you out.
bigshotprof
07-06-2008, 11:08 PM
Hmmm! How to dress people in The Pajama Game? What would people . . .? Wow, I'm glad I'm not in your shoes. Have fun!!
i like 'guys and dolls'
'sky' masterson marlon brando singing
techliveadmin
07-08-2008, 02:21 AM
Congrats I suppose.
ariastar
08-17-2008, 07:33 AM
We almost didn't go because, now that Cody's on the mend after two trips to the ER this week, I'm feeling like crap a bit. Thankfully I have no tonsils, so won't get as sick as he was. But we went.
That's the one I helped costume (http://www.artsopolis.com/event/detail/34837).
Our tickets were on the house and we got the director's seats, the ones you have to know "the right people" to get, so that was cool. Cooler still was when we went to pick up the tickets at the box office the lady said she's heard what a wonderful job I did. So I've been talked about for the quality of my work. Is that cool or what? And, perhaps even cooler, I'm credited by name in the program! I was completely not expecting that.
Most of the Hernando's Hideaway dresses were "mine," as in I was the one who made, altered, or restored them. My absolute favorite ended up being switched out because the lighting made it look white, but there are two others I want to mention.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/VictoriaRoseDesigns/HH.jpg
The one circled on the left was a bitch of a dress. It's vintage, and the stupid poly organza kept splitting because of it. It's pretty and the top is sparkly when watching, but I must have made more repairs to that dress than the rest combined.
And the one on the right is also vintage, from about 1955, and is my second favorite. In the right side, near the zipper (metal, not the plastic ones found today), the fabric split, again due to age. Rather than a quick repair, I decided use fusible backing for added strength and then took matching thread and embroidered daisies over it. That's the detail you absolutely can't see from the audience, but which I obsess over.
Heh, leave it to me to want to review my own work rather than the overall production. :)
darksydeavenger
08-17-2008, 09:22 AM
Congrats on the work, and good job at that!
tokenuser
08-17-2008, 10:37 AM
Nice job. I'm just happy Cody was well enough to leave the house again.
acidburn
08-17-2008, 12:36 PM
Very nice work. Congratulations!
bigshotprof
08-17-2008, 02:27 PM
It's hard to tell definitively from a photo, but it really looks like good work!
popltree2
08-17-2008, 05:14 PM
Nice job. I'm just happy Cody was well enough to leave the house again.
I still feel like the better part of death, warmed over. But seeing has how I can once again hear out of left ear, I figure the worst of it is over and, more so than wanting to see the play itself, I wanted to see Aria's work on stage. Pleasant surprise when I found out that the play was not just the "one-step-above-highschool" type of production and acting. The actors were actually that; actors. Very well done production.
popltree2
08-17-2008, 05:16 PM
It's hard to tell definitively from a photo, but it really looks like good work!
I did get to see some of the dresses reasonably up close and though I cannot tell you the difficulty of one stitch from another, it was easy to tell that they were well constructed. Pity members of the costuming team don't get to keep at least one piece of clothing the worked on.