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My family hosted an exchange student from Japan named Kaito and we became really close. I am making an effort to learn Japanese as a sign of respect for him because he had to learn English to come to America. I intend to visit him one day. He is from Chiba, which is just outside of Tokyo.

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I love music. It all stems from my love with Impressionist pianists when I was in middle school, then I got into jazz because many musicians were inspired by the Impressionist movement, and then I moved onto jazz-inspired indie music. I find that music helps my craft, and I sometimes apply music to a scene I am working on.

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The above image is someone else's doing, but it resembles vaguely what I want from my work. I take note of every new idea, every new blocking, every new characterization, and every new realization that I discover along the rehearsal process. This is all an effort to closely attach myself with my character and the themes of the work.

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I show up about an hour or two before most rehearsals and shows and I partake in much preparation. I do stretches, breathing exercises, run through my lines, and run through some of the blocking. I also consult my notes to refresh my headspace in order to recreate each moment on stage. Sometimes, new ideas pop into my head that might change the aspect of the scene and I trust that my scene partners will follow through on this revelation.

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Whether it is film, television, theatre, painting, poetry, literature, and many other works, art has been a part of our world for thousands of years. Art is what we all strive for whether we realize it or not, and its impact on our daily lives cannot be avoided. I find myself in a jovial mood every time I go to a museum, or even sit on a park bench.

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There are thousands of different cultures throughout the world. I believe it is an important note to learn about other cultures in order to understand our fellow worldly citizens and adopt a world-encompassing view. Better yet, you should learn directly from the source of a practitioner of these cultures.

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People watching improves my craft as an artist and as an observer. I look at the appearance of these people, and how they are going to wherever it is they are going or doing. I use a destination exercise taught in my acting class and guess where they are coming from, what they were doing there, where are they now, how they are now, where they are going, and what are they going to do when they get there among other categories. I also get to look at nature and enjoy its splendor!

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One of my bad habits is playing video games. Sometimes, I can only focus on the game and not do any work otherwise. But, I play games that enhance my imagination and creative capabilities.

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My Artistic Process - Separation and Fraternization

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My Artistic Process - Separation and Fraternization

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I briefly mentioned this in class. Whenever I am in the show, I find out my relationship with people in the show and I either separate myself from them or I fraternize with them more depending on the relationship in the show. It may sound a little toxic, but I don't completely separate myself from the other people and I don't treat them poorly. It helps build my imagined realities of these people in the scene and helps build my relationship with them. I did this in Tiny Fingerprints, as well as Our Town.

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Ever since I have started doing college theatre, I have made it an effort to learn the names of people I collaborate with. I see learning someone's name as a sign of respect and it helps makes the process of collaboration easier. I make an effort to introduce myself to someone I have not met before the first rehearsal in order to ingrain in my mind their name. I usually learn everyone's name within the first couple of days.

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This is not the only type history I am interested in, but I put this here because I recommend to anyone who loves to eat food and loves history. This person on YouTube recreates historical foods from old cookbooks from the 1950s all the way back to Mesopotamian times (4000 years ago).

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A History of Ice Cream | A Recipe from 1789

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To paraphrase Plato, if a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. Life is about overcoming adversity and struggle and improving oneself. One of the chief ways to do that is through the accumulation of knowledge. I find myself constantly absorbed in books that will improve my craft. So far, I have gone through about 4 acting books in the past month. Along with the Stella Adler research, I have accumulated about 140 pages worth of notes that I intend to store in a binder.

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I believe that every professional theatre artist should have a fluid voice and body. In order to achieve that, I wake up every morning, and while I wait for my cereal to become soggy, I do morning stretches and voice work. As of right now, I have been taking inspiration from a book I am reading. Because there are no pictures to go along with the book, it is often difficult for me to find what position they want me in. However, I believe this is by design to allow the artist to work and play around with what works for them.

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I find these books fascinating. After going through some of them, I realized that times and society change, but we as people do not. Every time we wake up and get ready for the day, we are partaking in the history that has occurred for thousands of years!

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Since I was a child, I have always been a practitioner of play. I would go to the playground and make-believe I was the king of the world. In elementary school, I was really into the movie Jurassic Park, so I would embody a velociraptor and chase other children around the gym or playground. I would create imaginary scenarios as an child would in order to serve my enjoyment when playing. Throughout my upbringing and even now, I constantly daydream, which I believe exercises the imagination.

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For the past semester, I have been going to the HRC to research the theatre guru, Stella Adler. In my time with her writings, I have accumulated over 80 pages of research. I have expanded my imagination, and have taken a greater appreciation towards script-work and character building that I couldn't have thought possible. Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

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When I was in high school, I was the first one off-book (yes, I was THAT kid). I got off book quickly in order to focus more on character work before and during the rehearsal process. I cannot remember blocking when there is a script in my hand, and with the script out of my hands, I can focus on what exactly I am doing in a scene.