PostAWeek 24: The One with the Woodworking Presentation
By David “Fragile and Broke Very Easy” Dysart
So for the Peter Pan Camp at
Heartland Players Theatre Company, they asked me to be a special guest and talk
about woodworking/propmaking. Unfortunately, I got bumps, so I’ll be giving it
this week for the Seussical Teen Camp.
Here’s the outline I came up for
it. The actual printout has some more notes, but I’m too lazy to make a scan of
it.
Woodworking presentation
Horse, Penguin, Guitar, Afro Samurai Sword, Wand
How and why I started
Woodworking has been a great creative outlet for me
I’ve always been interested
in drawing and being creative, just not good at it
Connecting with my passions
and likes
Like the
guitar
Got started on things
I thought were cool.
Horse
Penguin
I’ve always been a
geek, so it’s a fun way to get involved
What I love about it is the fact that I’m always growing. I’m getting better at the work of woodworking, becoming more creative, more skilled
at the artistic endeavor, and always learning
little tricks that make things easier. Every
new project has new challenges and lessons.
And these are all very important aspects for woodworking and
propmaking. Take for example, my last
project involved actual wood. It was really fragile and broke very easy, so it took a bit of ingenuity to work
around that.
And I’ve definitely come
a LONG way. I was terrible at it
in the beginning. It took forever!
And I really didn’t have the tools I
needed. But that’s the thing. I got better, did it faster, and accumulated
the tools I needed to do better. And
that’s really how it is with anything you do.
Then when I started
acting here, I started doing little props here and there. I’ve been lucky
enough to act in 3 big shows here and
have made everything from daggers and
swords to guns and rifles. The nice thing is though, my painting skills aren’t too great, so
while this is good practice, if needs to look really pretty, I can hand it off to a more skilled person
at the theatre.
A lot of times,
collaborating can be a great thing to do. It allows us to so many great
things that we can’t do alone. A
director needs their stage manager, Kirk needs his Spock, and a woodworker
needs his painter.
And that’s not to say, you
shouldn’t try to get better at everything, but I’ve got a pretty good idea of my skillsets. I don’t foresee myself
ever being as good of a painter as
Dimyana, so I’m focusing on my strengths
Listening to
Auction Wars
Twitter Tag
This man promptly created from a Medium Density Fiberboard many
geeky props and tributes http://tiny.cc/PostAWeek
Going faster than a
“Reply All” email, websites like mine will surely go your way
http://twitter.com/daviddysart All in
all, it’s just another post in the feed
http://daviddysart.tumblr.com/ I’m
gonna post some tumblrs
http://hangingonbelay.blogspot.com/
Got you stuck on my belay, on my belay like a figure 8
http://daviddysart.blogspot.com/
Posts become as vapid as a blogger out in Starbucks
http://tiny.cc/Facebook_DavidDysart
This site has got to be the most pretentious thing
The http my own website
is coming soon .com !!!! in all its Glory - and all its Horror
New to the PostAWeek?
These are the essential posts to see
3 – January Performer of
the Month – The first official appearance of Chuck and Tom on the PostAWeek,
and a good sampler of their style.
5, 6, 7 – The February
Performer of the Month Trilogy – The only Performer of the Month to span 3
posts, Chuck deals with a Batman-quoting Tom for over 1,500 words in this
three-bit of brilliance
8, 9, 10 – The Mile High
Diaries Trilogy – My yearly pilgrimage to the top of Mount Etatslac chronicled
for the future generations to tackle the peak, written article-style with
pulled quotes and all that jazz.
In 2010 a sharp artistic dude was sent to the garage by a creative
endavor for a craft he had never committed. This man promptly created from a Medium
Density Fiberboard many geeky props and tributes. Today, still wanted by the fanboys,
he survive as an independent contractor. If you have a prop, if no one else can
make it, and if you can find me, maybe you can commission... the Rockwall Ronin.
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