Clowning Around

I feel so lucky to have had an introduction to clown work.  It has been one of the most enlightening, trans-formative work I have ever done. It pushes, stretches, and squeezes me out of my comfort zone in ways that allow me to see and understand myself more deeply... for the good and the ugly.  My interest in this work is for performance professionalism, but mostly, for becoming a better person.  It has helped me understand myslef better, communicate more honestly, and share and listen more deeply.

 This is the cast of the (Eternal Debut of the) Poupon Parade, a group of clowns that I had the pleasure of working with in Canada in 2012.

 This is Islando and my act as Picante and Shiza'am to "Sweet Dreams" that we made immediately after our Baby Clown course with David McMurray Smith.

 This is the cast of the Banunky Fun Force (minus Mike Mathew), a show we put together to open for Le Serpent Rouge at the Wild Buffalo in 2011... lots of clown inspiration here (Chipps, Jules, Islando, Justincredible).

 The cast of the Super Hero Boy Band... all clowns who took David's Deep Clown class... one I hope to take in the future. (Aaron Malkin, Islando Bocock, Alaistar Knowles)

 The chair dance is an act I made in 2009 that I have been continuing to perform and tweak with help from clown work.

This is the group at the latest workshop I took called in Canada called, Presence, Play, and the Red Nose, a weekend workshop by Justine Williams of the Glass Contraption from NYC. It was great fun. She suggested her mentor Christopher Bays for more classes... I'f anyone's interested... =)

Proud Employee of the Colophon Cafe

So working at the Colophon is awesome... Great boss (Dave), awesome staff, flexibility of schedule, and extraordinary guests. I've been serving there on and off for the past 6+ years! Recently Dave has asked me to create some advertising material and graphics for the Colophon... so here's a few of them.

 Our Dessert and Ice Cream menu... it goes on the table with other small ads about us and our neighbors (Village Books).  No one was interested in being the model, so it ended up being me (just in case you can't tell with my notorious disguise)!

This ad was running every other week in the Weekly for a few months.

Here's one of my favorites of the table tent inserts!  I just love the little graphic buddies (can't remember where I found them)! Did some color adding/changing and touching up on their sharpness to make it work.

This one was for the 2012 Fall edition of the Chuckanut Reader!  And I must say, for all of it's spiciness, African peanut soup is really quite relaxing..

This was a special occasion gift certificate that two lucky contestants won in a raffle at the Banunky Fun Force Show last year!  This is evidence of an awesome and good-humored boss.

And finally, this is a draft of what the Colophon Cafe's new website will look like!  I designed it (with Dave's input and main vision) and Wren will build it!  It's quite whimsical, with wiggling moustaches and all!  It was super fun, I drew the spoon (inspired by the artist who made the graphic buddies above), and the moustache in photoshop and Wren made them come alive!  I definitely love working in photoshop, and thanks to Dave, I've done it as a paying job!  Hooray for that, and hooray for the Colophon!