Wednesday, November 5, 2008
More Sidney Supper Photos
Photographer Melanie West gave us a disc of photos she shot at the Sidney Supper. I've included 16 of my favorites in a web gallery. Click the image to see the gallery (shown below).
Monday, November 3, 2008
Namaste
No, this isn't the Eastern Caribbean. It's Kathmandu, Nepal. While organizing files in preparation for the Shakespeare At Sea Cruise, I keep running across photos that bring back memories of other trips from the past.
That's me sitting on the front steps of an Apple computer store, located just a couple of blocks from the Yak & Yeti Hotel in downtown Kathmandu. Robin and I accidentally stumbled across this place as we wondered around the city. I think Apple probably was right in deciding to not go with this look for all of their stores.
Namaste to all you Nepal Mac users.
Double Bubble Toil and Trouble in Los Alamos
Never have I seen such a fair and foul night as Halloween night in Los Alamos. A 13-strong contingent of Mary Sidney Society members and Shakespeare readers from Robin's Mermaid Tavern drove through the fog and filthy air to watch the Los Alamos Little Theater production of Macbeth, starring Grady Hughes, a longtime member of the First Friday Club (Shakespeare readers) that meets monthly at the Mermaid Tavern in Santa Fe.
A full house on opening night raised our expectations and we weren't disappointed. Everyone was great, especially Grady. How good was he? I definitely will not ever spend the night in his castle. And I'll stay at least two sword lengths from him at future Shakespeare readings.
Bravo, Grady. Thanks for a wonderful night of horror, treachery, and most foul deeds.
Grady Hughes as Macbeth.
A full house on opening night raised our expectations and we weren't disappointed. Everyone was great, especially Grady. How good was he? I definitely will not ever spend the night in his castle. And I'll stay at least two sword lengths from him at future Shakespeare readings.
Bravo, Grady. Thanks for a wonderful night of horror, treachery, and most foul deeds.
Grady Hughes as Macbeth.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Waiting For Shakespeare
To prepare my laptop and camera gear for the Shakespeare Cruise, I spent hours importing and deleting footage from the camera, a Canon HG10. I've been procrastinating this task for months, not wanting to decide what to keep and what to toss. Since the HG10 records to an internal hard disc, you don't have easy, automatic archival of footage that MiniDV tapes provide. Whine, whine, grump, grump.
To get to the point, I'm throwing together some photos and video from trips and events earlier this year into a few movies. The link below is a slide show of our trip to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, at the end of May. After a photo-safari week in Granada, Nicaragua with pal JohnG to visit his sweetheart Marcia (we stayed at her house in Granada), the three of us flew to Leon, then hired a driver to take us to San Miguel, a two-hour drive, where Robin and friends Elizabeth and Boris were waiting for us to arrive (having arrived there a couple of days earlier).
Several years ago, Robin spent a week there with Elizabeth (a regular haunt of hers). It was my first visit, and it was everything I'd imagined a quaint, Mexican, mountain village from a hundred years ago would be like (including a Starbucks located on the corner of the Plaza, with free Wi-Fi access. Yes!)
San Miguel de Allende
To get to the point, I'm throwing together some photos and video from trips and events earlier this year into a few movies. The link below is a slide show of our trip to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, at the end of May. After a photo-safari week in Granada, Nicaragua with pal JohnG to visit his sweetheart Marcia (we stayed at her house in Granada), the three of us flew to Leon, then hired a driver to take us to San Miguel, a two-hour drive, where Robin and friends Elizabeth and Boris were waiting for us to arrive (having arrived there a couple of days earlier).
Several years ago, Robin spent a week there with Elizabeth (a regular haunt of hers). It was my first visit, and it was everything I'd imagined a quaint, Mexican, mountain village from a hundred years ago would be like (including a Starbucks located on the corner of the Plaza, with free Wi-Fi access. Yes!)
San Miguel de Allende
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Sidney Supper 2008, The Movie
If you missed the 4-hour event in Santa Fe, New Mexico, here's the seven-minute movie version.
Click on the text link above, or click on the photo below.
Click on the text link above, or click on the photo below.
Monday, October 27, 2008
What Things We Have Seen Done At The Mermaid!
The Mermaid Tavern on Sweet Swan Lane was the site of this year's Sidney Supper event, an annual birthday celebration organized by the Mary Sidney Society for Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The event marked her 447th birthday. Just in case you don't know who Mary Sidney is, she's an Elizabethan woman who has fascinating, impressive, and documented connections (revealed by Robin in her book, Sweet Swan of Avon: Did A Woman Write Shakespeare) to the works attributed to the man named William Shakespeare.
As Ben Jonson (a contemporary of both Mary Sidney and Shakespeare, and the self-proclaimed poet laureate of England) said, "What things we have seen done at the Mermaid!" Of course, he was referring to the Mermaid Tavern on the corner of Friday and Bread Streets in London 400-something years ago, but it's a sentiment that is being taken seriously by a growing number of Mary Sidney devotees today. And then there's always the fact that when word gets out there's a party at Robin's house (The Mermaid Tavern), lots of people show up because they know it's not going to be your usual get-together.
Somewhere between 30 and 40 cars parked along the road, along the driveway, and in the parking area next to the house. At least 60 people attended, perhaps more. I ran a shuttle service with the SwanMobile (shown below) for people that didn't want to walk the 192.5 yards (yep, I measured it in Google Earth).
There was mirth and merriment aplenty. I will posteth a short video on the morrow.
As valet, I greet guests when they arrive at Sweet Swan Lane.
The SwanMobile.
Some of the guests listen to Robin. Others are outside on the patio (the door on the right). And still others are behind the camera.
Ceryn, youngest member and Student Liaison of The Mary Sidney Society, greets guests in the Mermaid Tavern's Great Hall (ha).
Laura and Anna lead the guests in a sing-along of Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
Some of the previously mentioned mirth and merriment.
Robin, Main Mistress of Mirth and Merriment
(as most of you already know).
As Ben Jonson (a contemporary of both Mary Sidney and Shakespeare, and the self-proclaimed poet laureate of England) said, "What things we have seen done at the Mermaid!" Of course, he was referring to the Mermaid Tavern on the corner of Friday and Bread Streets in London 400-something years ago, but it's a sentiment that is being taken seriously by a growing number of Mary Sidney devotees today. And then there's always the fact that when word gets out there's a party at Robin's house (The Mermaid Tavern), lots of people show up because they know it's not going to be your usual get-together.
Somewhere between 30 and 40 cars parked along the road, along the driveway, and in the parking area next to the house. At least 60 people attended, perhaps more. I ran a shuttle service with the SwanMobile (shown below) for people that didn't want to walk the 192.5 yards (yep, I measured it in Google Earth).
There was mirth and merriment aplenty. I will posteth a short video on the morrow.
As valet, I greet guests when they arrive at Sweet Swan Lane.
The SwanMobile.
Some of the guests listen to Robin. Others are outside on the patio (the door on the right). And still others are behind the camera.
Ceryn, youngest member and Student Liaison of The Mary Sidney Society, greets guests in the Mermaid Tavern's Great Hall (ha).
Laura and Anna lead the guests in a sing-along of Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
Some of the previously mentioned mirth and merriment.
Robin, Main Mistress of Mirth and Merriment
(as most of you already know).
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Testing one two three
I'm in the process of knocking the dust off various blogging tools that have been in the woodshed for a while. Robin and I leave for the Shakespeare At Sea Cruise November 6, so I'm testing some features that I might want to use while at sea. Such as publishing a nice photo album quickly (Internet access is expensive in the middle of the Caribbean).
Testing one two three (images from Kauai)...
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