The Blogging of the Bloggonaughts-Laughing Gall

Good day, dear Squirrels and Squiggle-fish!

I have decided to bloggulate! Because bloggulation is fun. As fun as it is squishy.

*cough*

At any rate, I am getting more involved in a project called Laughing Gall Productions. It’s headed by my sister-in-spirit Mary, and it’s really quite delightful! It works off a lot of things that I like, and would find in an ideal art world; everything it strives to do is collaborative and supportive.

I’ll work off an example that Mary gave on how Laughing Gall Productions works. Let’s say that you want to want to make a pen and paper RPG. You have some ideas for a campaign setting and a story, and even some ideas for rules, but you need help. So, you turn to the group and then someone who’s big on rules and numbers helps you work out the details on how to make the system function. Great! Now wouldn’t it be great to see it action? Well, some people in the group like pen and paper games, so they run their buddies on some adventures, trouble shoot, see how it goes. Now there’s a basis for an idea. Maybe you could make a rule book out of it! Needs art. Through Laughing Gall, you find someone who’d love to do some drawings for you. You go on and on, work together to figure out a good self-publishing option, maybe even just making little booklets to sell at your local comic book store (and maybe some of the others will try to get their local stores to sell it, too). Suddenly your little idea gets somewhere, and with the help of a community of artists. Maybe it doesn’t get much farther than that, maybe it turns into something, who knows? But the point is, that you turn your ideas into something tangible and bring your art to life.

That’s also what I’m loving about Laughing Gall.: the sweeping definition of art. We’re all artists in our own way, whether we paint, write, or code; it’s all about creation. Right now, a few of us have been looking around the net for different self-publishing services and seeing what might be best for people. We can share what we’ve learned, work together to help someone publish, or just send someone looking in a new direction. Overall, I think the concept is really cool, and it definitely has potential to help emerging artists. If nothing else, it could just be a great community for people to share their works, receive feedback, and support.

So yeah, I’m really excited about that. Laughing Gall Productions. Stops time. Tell your friends. ^_~

The reason I’m going on about this, is because I’ll be dedicating blog time to talking about different projects I’m working on in conjunction with Laughing Gall. It was suggested that we all keep a blog and update it on a monthly basis to talk about what we’re doing. It gives all of the people involved in Laughing Gall a chance to keep up with everyone’s goings-on, and it’s also to help us keep focused. If we go to write a blog post and we haven’t done anything new for a month, well then that’s a sign to get productive and make some dreams come true, damnit! ^^

What am I working on? Well, I just finished Nightfall Ablaze, my first self-produced show and first show under the name of my own company Within Theatre. I have begun contemplating over a new play that I have tentatively titled Lacerta. I won’t give much away (since it’s still in its infancy), but it is a one-person show that combines spirituality, self discovery, astronomy, Native American and Native Canadian mythos and storytelling, and an acid trip gone horribly horribly wrong. Actually, that’s quite a comprehensive description for what I have in mind. So yeah! Exciting!

I am also working on a new project that I’m hoping Laughing Gall can help me get out of my imagination and into something more real. I’m calling it Empyrean Theatrics. It’s an open database of plays for schools and non-profit or emerging theatres. These folks get completely free plays for performance, and emerging playwrights get their work “out there” and performed (hopefully) all over the world! So yeah, hopefully that works out.

So there you are. Big post for my first time back with the Bloggonaughts. Wish me luck, peoples! And feel free to get involved with Laughing Gall Productions. They’re awesome. ^_^