This is Terence Anthony. I write stuff. And animate if I have to. This is a random sampling of the things I write about, think about, or just dig. I also lurk around TWITTER and FACEBOOK . Feel free to share your own shiznit by clicking HERE
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From the ridiculous minds over at Robot Chicken… Favorite lines: “360 on the parameter/You know ho’s like diameter”
Sent this email to the friend’s I dragged to see a very shitty basketball game:
Friends,
On behalf of Clippers fans around the globe, I feel the need to apologize for last night’s 112-84 loss to the New Orleans Hornets. That was probably the worst basketball I’ve ever seen live, eclipsing even our old team “The Bricks” (0-8).
BUT it’s just the start of a long season, so I encourage you all to keep hope alive for the Clips. And to think of these positive things:
Stay strong, Clipper Nation.
— Terence
Screenshots: animating new episodes of Orlando’s Joint
From /Film:
This summer Dave Eggers published his non-fiction book Zeitoun, an account of a New Orleans family experiencing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Abdulrahman Zeitoun stayed in the city after the floods, using his canoe to get about the city in order to help people and it is his testimony, gathered via interviews, that herein provides Eggers material and, to a large extent, voice. It was a stealth publication, in the sense that nobody had much heard of it until shortly before it hit shelves, but Eggers commands a loyal fan base, for his whole McSweeney’s line as much as for himself, so it was eagerly received. One fan who leapt right into it was Jonathan Demme, who had been a follower of Eggers work since his son introduced him to What is the What. Demme had himself directed a series of films on post-Katrina New Orleans called Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward.
I wasn’t a big fan of Rachel Getting Married, but will always dig Something Wild. And this project looks like a good one.
Read full article HERE.
Watched my play twice last weekend — two nights, two different audience vibes — and I’m struck by the difference between producing content for stage and for the web.
I bet my web series has been seen by way more folks than the play ever will. But the play will live in a completely different way. When I direct the fantastic Orlando’s Joint and Choke actors, it’s with the understanding that later I’ll be able to cut, splice, edit and craft their performances together just about any way I want.
With Blood & Thunder, the actors and the director tweaked the story I wrote. Not by changing my script (tho they tried, plenty of times) but by finding new elements in the characters and setting through the long rehearsal process. And when you get an amazing acting/directing team doing that, those new things are awesome.
The other big difference I’ve experienced is knowing how the audiences react to the work. While the web stuff is out there for anyone to see anywhere in the world, they’re probably watching it alone in front of a computer — I don’t know if they love or hate it unless they shoot me an email. I’ve only seen two performances of Blood & Thunder so far, but they were both different experiences and I got to watch how people react as it was happening.
And that’s a cool, cool thing.
The first solo production of one of my plays opened this weekend! Part of me still doesn’t believe Blood & Thunder actually came together — and that so many incredibly talented folks worked their ASSES off to get it off the ground. But it’s out there. Now playing. Aw yeah…
