Hamlet: Prince of puddles.

Hamlet and Ophelia.

Hello everybody! I'm here with another Youth series performance! It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet like you've never seen it before! Written for a much younger crowd than the original. Hamlet: prince of puddles turns a terrible tragedy into a hilarious comedy.

You see, Hamlet is in a bit of a predicament.
His father, King Hamlet died unexpectedly. As everybody was mourning, the queen decided to marry the late king's brother. Who in Hamlet's opinion, is a large butthead. Not to mention that his long lushus hair he is so proud of is fake!

So with the help of his girlfriend Ophelia, he must avenge his father! But wait, there is one other complication! Ophelia's father banned her from speaking to Hamlet.
What will he do?!

So I give this play a definite 100%! If you live in the Lafayette area and would like to see it, we have 2 more shows open to the public. 


Goodbye all blog readers,
Jackson

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

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 

New vlog.

Post coming up later today......................... ZooZoo: an Imago production.

Vlogs, new houses, microscopes, and more!

Hello all who own computers! Jackson here, it's been too long.
So I decided to do pretty much an overall update in our digital journey!
Well, a new year has come and it's name is 2012! Dosen't that sound completely sci-fi? Even to someone like me who was born in the early 21st century.
How are you guys? Had a good Christmas or Hanukkah?
I'm starting a new thing on this blog: a Vlog! It's a video blog that I'll do probably every other time I post.  Here's the first one:

Cool huh?

So we are in the new house, still in Lafayette. 

We pretty much have it all set up as you can see in the vlog. 

See you next time!

-Jackson

Buzz: A sawfish story.

Last week I went with some friends to the Audubon aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans.  It was probably the coolest aquarium I've ever seen! At the end of the aquarium, you got to see in the shark tank, (through glass) there were all kinds of sharks and other big fish, but one stood out, or stood in for me. It was the biggest shark in the tank, you could only see a shadow of it, but it had 3 fins.
I looked to the signage telling us what kinds of fish were in there, and there was a featured sign that had a drawing of the big shark on it.  It pretty much said that the big shark's name was Buzz, and it's a Smalltooth Sawfish. It had been in captivity in the Ripley's aquarium since the 1960s. It is 80 years old, but that is not even elderly by Smalltooth Sawfish standards.

Smalltooth Sawfishes are critically going extinct, and Buzz is one of 10 in captivity, there is not much more in the wild. His story is so fascinating!
To think of the stories that one fish could tell...

One of Buzz's distinct features is his long snout, with pointy "teeth" sticking out the sides.

The "teeth" are not used for eating, if you look closely at the picture above, you can see his mouth. The teeth are simply spikes used for intimidation and fighting.

I googled Buzz for you so you can find out more about him: Buzz Google search.

Here is a video of Buzz:
Buzz the sawfish.

Your friend,
Jackson

The life and times of Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès is a very famous old movie director. He was the first to understand that movies can tell a story, he was born to a family of shoemakers and promptly rejected the family business and bought a theatre to become a magician, then in 1895, he witnessed something more worthwhile to him: Moving pictures. Méliès offered to buy the Lumière brothers camera, when they refused, he made his own using spare gears and springs. 

Many say that Le voyage dans la Lune ( A trip to the moon) was his first masterpiece. (Which you can see here)

He made over 500 movies in his glass studio.

After world war I, peoples tastes changed, his camera was still, and rivals swooped there cameras on tracks for multiple shots, people wanted to see action, not drama. He went bankrupt, and sold his movies to a chemical company that burned them down to make, ironically, shoe heels.  He made a living working in a toy shop in a Paris train station. 

But he made a small comeback, at the time of his death, (1930s) he was at work on a new movie, The ghosts of the metro.  Today is his birthday.

Happy birthday Georges Méliès. 

Your friend,

Jackson

Here are some more of his movies:
The Astronomers Dream,
The vanishing lady,
The Melomaniac,
The haunted castle.