Phido-the-flareon

I am very excited to say that I now have a somewhat decent online portfolio! Unfortunately it's through DA, so there are some annoying restrictions, but I would greatly appreciate it if you would all go check it out, and then come back here and give me feedback. sarahrice.daportfolio.com Thanks everybody. Also, shameless plug, if you work in theatre and need a design assistant, you should hire me. I can also assist projectionists. Thank you David Lee Cuthbert for making me learn how to use watchout.

But I don't, so I'm going to rant here. Just a brief warning, this has nothing what-so-ever to do with my art.

You know what irritates the crap out of me when writing papers? Everyone's insistence that i "support my claims" its completely ridiculous. Why should I back up my assertions with some scholar who is merely writing his opinion and backed it up with someone else's opinion who backed it up with someone else's opinion etc etc. when you get to the end of it all, it is still a matter of opinion. I dont want to back up claims when they are musings based of theories of human nature. the reader has heard the idea before and can choose to agree or not. I dont want to back up my claims when they are based on knowledge gleaned from experience, and most importantly, I dont want to have to back up my claims with someone elses musings, just eliminate the middle man. All this insistence for backing up arguments does is repress new ideas. Liberal arts are not sciences! We should not need to follow some sort of scientific method for proving an unprovable argument that is all just a matter of opinion anyway, regardless of how many "supports" you provide.

And the Oscar for sound mixing goes to.....

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE?!?!?!? Are you freaking kidding me? slumdog millionaire won over WALL-E! The entire freaking movie is FOLEY! There are like 4 spoken lines in the entire freaking film! WALL-E managed to convey an engaging emotional story using BUBBLE WRAP and they loose to slumdog millionaire! WTF? Sometimes I feel like they give the technical awards to movies the audience think should win, in an attempt to recognize movies they think deserve some type of recognition, regardless of the actual quality of the technical aspects, because their viewers aren't going to know any better. This is why I never watch the Oscars unless I'm getting paid (which, for the record, I was).

Sorry to everyone for my habit of not posting for years, and then posting a hundred pictures all at once, blame the theatre. They own my soul. anyway, Enjoy the pretty pictures, and I will have more when the show I'm working on now goes up in march. Should be good. Hopefully better than everything Ive done so far. Or at least that is the goal. I would also like to point out that I am not feel helpful, I just like that the icon has a light bulb over its head. It made me happy.

So, I posted a whole slew of pics from the play I worked on in the spring. I have a few more I would like to post of the crucifixion but it contains full frontal nudity, so Im waiting on permission from the actor involved before I do so. Once I get his permission there are 3 or four more pictures that I'll post.