| Well the excitement is over, but now comes the tales... |
[May. 7th, 2007|09:36 pm] |
Over the last week a lot of balloon animals, hearts, flowers and the like have set base in my room, bringing more and more forces to join them.
It was time to reclaim my room, I needed to get rid of all those balloons.
But it's not such an easy task, something about hose little monkeys, piggis, teddy bears and little mice prevented me from popping them all and throwing them to the garbage. It takes a dark kind of person to pop balloons. It's like stepping on a flower. I won't do it (on purpose).
Yesterday I sent Chen, my brother's girlfriend, a picture of some of the balloons and it turns out she wanted them, she wanted them all. So I told her I would bring her the balloons today.
So now I faced the challange of hiding all those balloons somewhere so I can carry them the fourty minutes walk to the place I was supposed to meet her.
It wasn't that successfull. I managed to cramp most of them in two giant plastic bags but I had to carry two hearts, a hat and a big flower with a bird on it's leaf.
So I went out, a balloon hat on my head, two hears on my arm holding two bags full of balloon animals and a big flower with a bird on the other hand.
I walked fast and hoped people would not really notice me as i was a little bent over. I also avoided places with a concentration of people. I went on the side roads you can say.
After ten minutes two teenagers saw me and one of them asked if she can have one. I gave her one of the hearts. I proceeded to walk near a park and three little girls jumped all around me shouting "Balloons! Balloons! Give us balloons!"
Two of them wanted the hear, but I had only one of thoe so one took the heart and the other one took my balloon hat! the third one got a small monkey while one of the first ones managed to sneak a hand in one of my bags and took herself another balloon animal. The other two obviously found that a perfectly good reason why they should have a second balloon animal as well.
So all in all they took two balloons each and I was on my way.
Now I was without the hat, and the hearts and only with two bags and a flower so I was less noticable and I got through to the meeting place.
I met Chen and told her seven balloons were hijacked on the way and she was all like "Hey! Why? Why did you give them away! My balloons!!" :D
So I sat down with her in the park and made her some fresh new balloons.
While I did that, an elderly man approached us and ask me if I sell them.
I told him that I don't but I'll be happy to make him one if he wants.
Imagine if you will a four year old boy, all shy, saying "yes i want one" and now put the body of an elderly man on that boy. That was this man telling me he want a balloon animal :D
I figured he wanted one for a grandson or something. I gave him a naughty monkey and he asked "how much?"
I just told him "Nothing. Enjoy!"
It felt so good!
REALLY really good.
I am so happy anout this :D
I gave an elderly man a balloon monkey! lol
Who knew it would be so easy to be that happy.
This experience pretty much balanced all those sad people that made me feel balloon twisting is stupid and that I should not be doing it since I am a grown up. They can keep their sorry ass activities and work while I enjoy myself doing stuff I like and making people smile (and in so doing, making myself smile)
Pop! |
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| this is a temp entry |
[May. 5th, 2007|06:10 pm] |
There is a stupid spammer that has smooched on my last entry and for some incomprehandble reason posts hundreds of the same comments over and over again.
He changes his username everyso often so a simple ban didn't work.
So I hope his automated commenting thingy will now comment on this post rather then the last one since this is the newer post.
There are some really stupid and anoying people in this world.
but other than that, have a nice day :D! |
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| To Littleliz request |
[May. 5th, 2007|05:08 pm] |
Ok, some of the nicer ballons in my room now...
The other that I haven't included are just freaks of nature, all kinds of twisted mouse or distoryed Teddy Bears and we must keep those kind of balloons far away from the sight of little children...
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| Mishel the balloon guy! |
[May. 4th, 2007|03:13 pm] |
My room is full with balloons... all kinds of animals.
I have molded 30 balloons while practicing and now I have nothing to do with them. Everytime someone comes over he goes out the door with a balloon animal for his little brother (or so he says... we know it's for HIM).
And now I have bought myself 300 more balloons. I think I'll walk on the strollway with a friend, make teddy bears and give them away to whoever is there when I finish one :D
Good practise and the smiles are always welcome.
:D
I am so diverse, I kill me :D |
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| I am back |
[May. 2nd, 2007|05:02 pm] |
A day late, but in my defense the doctor decided to to a different kind of operation only after I was under the operating room table, fully loaded with everything they have.
But I am here now. |
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[Apr. 29th, 2007|09:35 pm] |
The day after tomorrow I get into an eye surgery again.
Everything will go smoothly, I will be up and running in a DAY!
I will be back home by Thursday and will spend the weekend at home.
I will be so good that the following week I'll be able to go to the Sushi workshop in Beer Sheva my brother signed himself and me for.
It will be a breeze, you'll see. |
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[Apr. 27th, 2007|09:04 pm] |
Mmmm....
I am watching a DVD that teaches Balloon sculpting.
Some of the Balloon stuff there are pretty cute.
Mmmm... |
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[Apr. 22nd, 2007|09:55 pm] |
Procrastinating.... procrastination... procrastinaaaaaation.
I did learn half of the act already. I can run through the lines and normally I only look twice or so in the text. So I can say I have learnt the lines for the first half of the act.
Now it's time to expand and learn the second half while trying not to forget the first half... damn, it's like memorizing an entire Seinfeld episode... |
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[Apr. 14th, 2007|01:06 am] |
Take a look at this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w
This shows you how a man with a distinctive laugh can make an entire audience laugh without any words whatsoever. You will laugh as well if you give it time.
It is kind of long and not always funny, but it's worth it.
Now you know how when you see something funny you will automatically laugh better if someone around you also laughs at it?
Well, how about if that someone also has a distinctive funny laugh?
Take a look at this clip in which a girl with a distinctive laugh watches the clip you just saw a minute ago, for the first time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iys86OcXPY8
Now if you didn't laugh at the first clip you can still be my friend, but if the second clip left you cold, you are inhuman and get away from me as soon as possible!!
PS
Thank the merciful god of the internet for making LJ save drafts...
I wasn't going to write it all again.. |
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| Procrastination is the devil. |
[Apr. 13th, 2007|06:50 pm] |
I am like a very old used car with egnition problems.
It is very hard to make the damn thing start, but when it does, it is a safe ride for as long as you don't stop it.
I should at the very moment of typing those words, be learning my lines by heart, but nope... I am not. it is so hard to force myself to start putting the work, but I KNOW that once I start and ten minutes pass on by, I am into it, having fun and doing what it takes without really suffering.
I just have to get up and start.
Anyone a jumpstart? |
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[Apr. 11th, 2007|11:05 pm] |
Well, I have devided the script to small blocks of text so I can learn each block on it's own and then combine the flow of everything.
I have 70 small blocks of text to learn by heart. 11 pages...
Oh and don't forget also to learn what actions go with what words and the timing and all.
I will concentrate my efforts at first just to memorize each block and be able to go over the entire script in my head. Then I shall start rehearsing routines.
Wish me luck, I was never that good with memorization.
My worse grades in highschool were in History, you can imagine why. |
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| Look at that! |
[Apr. 10th, 2007|08:55 am] |
My brother got me this shirt as a surprize present.
How cool is that?
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[Apr. 8th, 2007|07:15 pm] |
I have finished the script. ta ta na na na!
And it feels so good. ta ta na na na!
I have finished the script. Ta ta na na na!
and now I am off to get me some food. Ta taaaa na na!
Next step, learning eight pages of script by heart and rehearsing the routines. |
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| Office 2007 |
[Apr. 5th, 2007|07:31 pm] |
It turns out the new Office do have something usefull and not only fucked up all my color settings.
When I write the script I write the words to be spoken and then mark a section, sentence or even a word with a comment. The comments are there to tell me what should be my actions as I am saying the words.
Using comments is good since I don't clutter the script with the actions which actually may take more space then the spoken words and it's nice to just go over the word and see a tooltip of what is the action timed at that word.
In th eold Word, when I scripted one of my previous acts, I tried to print the document with the action comments somehow and didn't find a way to do it. Apparently comments where a devide used for working on the document and so when the document is ready for printing there should be no comments.
But now, in Word 2007 I can print the comments as well as buubles on the margin of the page! Which is very cool.
I already printed two versions of the current almost done script. One with all the action comments and the other with just the spoken script.
It looks really nice :) |
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| Mishel the magic man |
[Apr. 2nd, 2007|07:34 pm] |
I've been studying magic for the past several years fighting my tendency to shy away from attention. Through the years of study one comes to realize the secret of a trick is not at all what's important. The secret only makes the trick a puzzle.
People love to be introduced to puzzles, but most people see puzzles as what they are, something one must SOLVE. If you haven't solved it, you would really want to be told the solution and it's only natural. I challanged you with a puzzle and if you can't figure it out I give you the answer, that is how puzzles go.
So newcommers to magic often find it frustrating to do a trick and find out that the audiance resents them for not telling how the trick is done. This is not the audiences fault, they were presented with a puzzle and want to know the answer.
The professional magician knows how to PRESENT the magic in a compeling and entertaining way that diminishes the puzzle aspect of the trick. It's not a competition, you don't have to know the secret, and no one challanges you to figure it out. If you don't figure it out you are NOT stupid.
Actually, the other way around is the truth. If you don't figure it out that means you are a completely normal and healthy minded human being. Those principles used in magic effects are born out of hundred of years of experience and any technique that surviced so many years is sure to decieve SMART people. Magicians know it, but laypeople rarely think about the fact that it is much more easy to fool a very intelligent and smart person than to fool a dumb fellow, it is contrary to the intuition but it is true.
The exception being kids, kids are the harderst to fool because they do not have shaped their minds yet to include some "rules" and "shortcuts" of assumptions.
Anyway this whole discussion is not the point.
The more I got serious about studing magic the more I HAD to branch out to other performing arts. If you want to be a trickster, the secrets are enough, but if you want to be an entertaining Magician, you have to study Comedy, Theatre, Acting, Directing, Writing, Psychology and so much more.
And I did, I have started to branch out, I studied comedy and even went on stage at the Camel Comedy Club one night, I plan to start attending a workshop on acting in the near future and I have been writing short stories for a while some time ago.
I also constructed three acts in the past.
A one and a half hour pseudo gambling expose which I performed once and was very fun.
A twenty minutes stand up magic act which included a card vanishing and reappearing in my shoe, included a special wand named "The Ginny XP4++" and some other oddities. That was very fun, I performed it maybe six seven times for different groups and I had quite a lot of fun with it.
Then there was that other act which I won't go into.
All those previous acts were good and each one was better from the preceeding one.
Now, I am going all the way to construct and do a new tabled act.
This is by far the most grandioz project I have ever tried.
It took me about two months to decide about the material I'll be performing.
Then It took me some time to create some small props and now I am in the script writing stage.
In the past month and a half I have written about 80% of the script and it is comming along real nice and slow.
It will take 25 minutes, more or less. Let's just call it an even half hour.
I think I will be updating you with how this project comes along, just so I would have a feeling of "reporting" something.
After writing the script I will have to start learning the script by heart and then rehearse sections of it and finally the whole thing at once.
Don't jump of your wagen yet, after that I'll have to film myself rehearsing and then watch the act and analize what I see from the audiance standpoint. Then I'll have to reajust the script and/or movements and rehearse it all again in the new way and then repeat the process until I no longer feel weird seeing myself on the screen.
(I already caught a glimps of myself performing on camera and... I just look weird, It's not me! it's some weird looking strange sounding dude!)
mm... I realize I will have to invest a lot more work into this baby, but I think I will be proud of it at the end.
You can reserve a private free performance, but it will take some time until it's ready.
I'll need some folks to see it and give me their full head on direct real criticism about what they saw, since there will always be something that I will not be able to see since it's my creation and I am a little bit biased.
That's all.
So 80% on the script,
50% of the props.
Heading on.
Mishel. |
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| Hola! |
[Mar. 10th, 2007|01:40 pm] |
I have a friend who is also a hobbyist magician like me but unlike me he is VERY good with sleight of hand. Two days ago he gave me a CD with a small cigarette show he did on a Purim private party.
He is very humble and shy but I think that the world is missing a terrific magician just because he is so down to earth. It's a shame people can not see him do stuff because he is so reserved. He shows me stuff though since we discuss the inner workings and presentations and all...
So my quest is to make more people see him and make him realize he is not doing all this for nothing! People love to see those kinds of things.
So I made a myspace page just for him and added the video he gave me on a CD to the page and some photos and such. After seeing it he called it a Pulchan Isiyut page but I call it a gateway to the masses!
So take a look at the video in the page and have fun!
http://www.myspace.com/uriengel
You can comment on the video here or there. |
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| Ahh.. the queit morning... |
[Mar. 2nd, 2007|02:42 pm] |
I had so much fun yesterday night.
I met Yael at the University and after a while also met Sagiv.
Yael had gone to manage a theatre show that she has invited us to and we spent some time just eating "supper".
Then we went to the theatre in the Arts building at the university and I saw a terrific play that kept me smiling all the way through and feeling terrific.
It was such an experience.
It was a play produced entirly by students of the Art of Theatre in the university and they were all third year student, except two actors who were first year, but they only got to stand there and not say a word.
Anyway, the place was a dark room. There was no "stage", the audiance sat on one side of the room and the play took place just in front of us.
There were maybe twenty characters and they were all doing stuff at the same time and you couldn't really catch it all together since if you look one place, you miss the action in another place. That really gave me a feeling of actually being there with them in the play, the fact that I was on the same level with them and that they were all around doing stuff.
Several times one of the actresses would look me strait in the eyes and it was so nerving, she would be all in character and I had no idea what to do. It felt as if the character is staring at me, and since all the characters were mental health patients, it was kind of eerie...
But I was so impressed by them, they made me feel so good just by being there and watching them, not even fully paying attention to what the show is all about since it was something about the french revolution and napoleon and the marquiz the sad and mr. mara and all. I wasn't so much interested in the story itself, but I still had the time of my life.
Yeal is the manager of the play so she told me and Sagiv what are the best places to sit in and boy she knew what she was talking about. Normally the best seats are the one you can clearly see everything from, but this time, it was more than just that.
The play is Mara/Sad by PETER WEISS translated to Hebrew and it is about the marquiz de sad who is in a mental hospital and there he wrote a special play for all the other patient to produce and act in, so in essence, we, the audience are actually the audience of the play in the mental health hospital.
It begins by the manager of the hospital comming out and thanking us all for comming to see the play that the patients produced and he and his wife and little daughter also sit in the audience and they sat right next to me!
So now the play (within the play) begins and Mr. Sad is like the director and the play is about someone in the hospital and all the patients do their acting but they are all in the white cloths of the hospital and there are doctors there that supervise and all (they are the fist year student, they just stand there and occasionally grab a patient and take him away).
So it turns out the play (within the play) is kind of against the rich people or something and the patron who sat next to me kind of gets upset by that and every time stops the play and tells mr. sad it can't go on like that and the mental patienst also start saying rude words or start getting crazy and he again tells Sad to control his play!
And through the play the patron kind of talked to me and told me stuff and even gave me his goggles to see closer and gave me some snacks from his own table :D
And his little girl occasionally did stuff and her parents were mad at her, it was so weird, it felt like being there in the mental institution :D
which was GREAT!
I don't know, I don't think I can describe exactly how it was and what made me so thrilled and happy to have been there and experience it, but it was the best time I have had for really a very very very VERY long time.
Me like, me very very like.
I want to go back and hug each and every one of the actors and actress.
Mishel. |
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| I had an AMADINGLY delightful day! |
[Mar. 2nd, 2007|01:32 am] |
I had SO much fun and enjoyment today it is amazing!
Details will follow...
It's one and a half in the morning and I am going to sleep now.
See you all later :D |
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