One week into rehearsals for Deus Ex Machina and we’ve already wrapped our second film shoot with our video god Lowell Bartholomee, basked in the glory of a Will Hollis Snider Photography publicity shoot (he sure did make our actors look pretty!!), and got our ecstatic dance on with our lovely Ladies of Choreography, Kelly Hasandras and Robin Grace Thompson. It’s been a busy week. In the midst all of the work, the Deus...
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Rehearsals have begun. This means for the next two months, we’ll be makin’ art with some of Austin’s most creative folks. Jealous? You should be. These thirteen actors are incredible. I know that word gets thrown around a lot these days, but we can prove it. Allow us to show you how unhyperbolic we can be. Funny? Check. Austin theater royalty? Check. Tragic? Check. Critically acclaimed? Check. Bendy? Check. Award...
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Tomorrow is the first read through of Deus Ex Machina, which means it’s been a long day of printing and assembling scripts for the team. This got us thinking, exactly how many variations of Deus are there? So we pulled out one of these and got to work. And what discovered is that math has a much leaner way of saying what our playwright took 224 pages to demonstrate: Deus has 12,288 potential variations. Don’t believe us...
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Tonight I am working furiously with (the formidable programmer) Tim Thomas to finish out a prototype of data capture and visualization for real time voting, just in time for Sunday’s reading of Deus Ex Machina. We are using Twilio as our vote collection system for this prototype, and leveraging the base votr code built by a Twilio staff member. And customizing like mad to bring the data visualization into better shape, to...
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