Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The flapping of a butterfly's wings... and more.

Hallo! Jackson here!
It's been a long time! How have you guys been doing? Anything fun?
Well I've been in a play, celebrated a birthday, got a new microscope, celebrated Mardi Gras, and oh yeah, moved since the last update. (Vlogs don't count)

So, back to the play:
As you may well know, the play was called "The flapping of a butterfly's wings may cause a tsunami half-way around the world".  And yes, I did have a speaking part. I played a little 10-year old boy named Jackson.
This is the only picture I could find:
I'm the one onstage who is not wearing a hat.

On to the next thing, I just turned 10 years old!
This year was a big B-day party 'cause I have a big one every 5 years. So I had a big 5th birthday and will have a big 15th birthday.
This year was a bring a piece of NYC to Louisiana. We had an art wall (A huge piece of paper on the wall) and some bagels and cream cheese!

I got a microscope for my birthday from Mama and Daddy, and it's probably the best gift Iv'e ever gotten! It goes up to 2,000x magnification! That's around 1,000 times more magnification than a average magnifying glass.
I also got a microscope camera from Mimi, but it didn't work so we sent it back and their sending us a new one.

This Mardi Gras was pretty uneventful, Mama got really sick, so she couldn't go to any of the parades.  We caught a lot of beads.

And that's pretty much it!
See you guys next time!
- Jackson



Wednesday, February 1, 2012

ZooZoo: an Imago production


Hello all who own computers. Jackson here with another youth performance show.
This particular one is.... well, how about I show you:

Imago is a costume theatre, as you might have guessed. Surprisingly, there is only 5 guys in the whole show, only 5. 
ZooZoo, at a glance, is meant for really little ones, but it also does have jokes that even adults would get and enjoy. So they really perform for all ages.
And boy, do they love what they do... it shows in their dancing and movements onstage. You have to love it if you do 3 shows a day for a couple of entire schools. 
It's almost Cirque du Soleil-like, but without the acrobatics. 
The characters pretty much take them over, and it looks like their really table waiting anteaters or musical chair playing penguins onstage. 
I said almost the same thing about a mask-maker in one of my old posts. 

So I recommend it very highly.

Yours truly,
Jackson