While doing more research for my project on Celebration Theatre (in L.A.) I found this clip, I love the lines:
"There is no nudity here, this is the internet"
"I thought you could put what ever you want on the internet"
"Yeah on some channels where you press a button and pretend you are over 18"
(around 1:50)
Monday, October 19, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Nudity for a project!
For one of my school projects I have to research a community-based theatre. A community-based theatre is one that is run by a community, for the members of that community, expressing the issues of that community, and typically is somewhat political.
I am looking into Celebration Theatre in LA. It is a LGBTQ theatre group. They are also the birth place of Naked Boys Singing. Because of that, I'm adding this video to my blog (whether I use it in a presentation, I'm not sure yet).
I am looking into Celebration Theatre in LA. It is a LGBTQ theatre group. They are also the birth place of Naked Boys Singing. Because of that, I'm adding this video to my blog (whether I use it in a presentation, I'm not sure yet).
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Where does control turn to abuse?
My thoughts on this question stem from a variety of places, experiences, and incidences. Most recently however there have been two incidences, so to speak, that sparked a conversation with my friend D. (I'll be using initials not real names of the people) along the lines of this question.
On Wednesday, in one of my classes, we were discussing aspects of research papers we all have to do (the class is about 12 people, so a discussion of this sort wasn't too cumbersome), and one person mentioned spousal abuse, particularly abuse of women in heterosexual relationships. This sparked an idea for a story or play about abuse in gay (or lesbian, etc) relationships.
Moving on to today...
There is a guy, M., I have chatted with online, and met up with a few times. Although two of those times resulted in sex (one for that reason alone), I have been primarily interested in a friendship with him. The non-sex time was helping him out by driving him to a friend's place. He even invited me to his birthday party in a couple months. Also the first time we met, we chatted, and drank, for a good couple hours (the drinking is what probably lead to the sex).
Well, today I sent a simple "Hey how goes it?" text to M.
The reply I got was: "This is [M.]s boyfriend...Can you please leave him alone! Ya i don't like when people hit on him it makes me angry......"
I was a little floored by this for a couple reasons. First M. hadn't told me he had a boyfriend (if he had, I'd not have had sex with him, just stuck to the developing a friendship), and second, it seemed a little extreme for what I intended to be a friendly question. My, as polite reply as I could provide, was: "To [M.]'s boyfriend: [M.] had not told me about you, and besides i'm just a friend."
To which I got: "well id appreciate if you dont talk to him anymore"
I didn't reply directly to that text, instead I sent M. an email summarizing what his boyfriend had texted. As well as stating that though I respect his boyfriend's opinions, I believe it should be up to M. himself to decide if he should stop talking with me. I repeated an earlier offer to give him a ride to an evening class/event if he so needed, and concluded by saying that I'll leave it to him to contact me. Then added PS's of wishing him well in his classes, and hope that his boyfriend treats him well.
As I felt floored by M.'s boyfriend's comments, I called up D. to go for coffee. In the discussions with him as to why I called him up, he commented on how controlling M.'s boyfriend sounded.
I try not to judge people before I meet them, but there are some things that I don't get / bother me. Controlling who someone else can and can't talk to is one of them. Now if M. doesn't want to talk to me, that's fine. But not telling me, or having someone else tell me in such a tone as those texts, is another thing that bothers me.
More to the point what bothers me, in regard to the second point above, is people not telling me directly - such as "please don't contact me again," or "it's over between us, good bye." I have had 2-3 people tell me to never contact them again, and I haven't (though I had thought at the time of writing a letter basically saying: thank you for letting me know / being truthful. I am sorry if I ever wronged you. As per your wishes I will not contact you again, though you are free to contact me. I wish you all the best). I have told a couple people never to contact me again, and as far as I recall they never have. And I have had a few guys I've dated stop contacting me / returning my calls. Eventually I gave up seeing if they were alright - I hardly pester people, and if so it would be out of good reason, such as concern for their well being.
Any how, I am trying not to judge M.'s boyfriend, or M. for that matter, but until I hear directly from M., if I see him in the street I will say hi.
There is more to this topic, personal experiences, I had thought of including, but it is late for me, and I made my point (rant).
For those that do read my blog, I would like to know your thoughts on this topic.
On Wednesday, in one of my classes, we were discussing aspects of research papers we all have to do (the class is about 12 people, so a discussion of this sort wasn't too cumbersome), and one person mentioned spousal abuse, particularly abuse of women in heterosexual relationships. This sparked an idea for a story or play about abuse in gay (or lesbian, etc) relationships.
Moving on to today...
There is a guy, M., I have chatted with online, and met up with a few times. Although two of those times resulted in sex (one for that reason alone), I have been primarily interested in a friendship with him. The non-sex time was helping him out by driving him to a friend's place. He even invited me to his birthday party in a couple months. Also the first time we met, we chatted, and drank, for a good couple hours (the drinking is what probably lead to the sex).
Well, today I sent a simple "Hey how goes it?" text to M.
The reply I got was: "This is [M.]s boyfriend...Can you please leave him alone! Ya i don't like when people hit on him it makes me angry......"
I was a little floored by this for a couple reasons. First M. hadn't told me he had a boyfriend (if he had, I'd not have had sex with him, just stuck to the developing a friendship), and second, it seemed a little extreme for what I intended to be a friendly question. My, as polite reply as I could provide, was: "To [M.]'s boyfriend: [M.] had not told me about you, and besides i'm just a friend."
To which I got: "well id appreciate if you dont talk to him anymore"
I didn't reply directly to that text, instead I sent M. an email summarizing what his boyfriend had texted. As well as stating that though I respect his boyfriend's opinions, I believe it should be up to M. himself to decide if he should stop talking with me. I repeated an earlier offer to give him a ride to an evening class/event if he so needed, and concluded by saying that I'll leave it to him to contact me. Then added PS's of wishing him well in his classes, and hope that his boyfriend treats him well.
As I felt floored by M.'s boyfriend's comments, I called up D. to go for coffee. In the discussions with him as to why I called him up, he commented on how controlling M.'s boyfriend sounded.
I try not to judge people before I meet them, but there are some things that I don't get / bother me. Controlling who someone else can and can't talk to is one of them. Now if M. doesn't want to talk to me, that's fine. But not telling me, or having someone else tell me in such a tone as those texts, is another thing that bothers me.
More to the point what bothers me, in regard to the second point above, is people not telling me directly - such as "please don't contact me again," or "it's over between us, good bye." I have had 2-3 people tell me to never contact them again, and I haven't (though I had thought at the time of writing a letter basically saying: thank you for letting me know / being truthful. I am sorry if I ever wronged you. As per your wishes I will not contact you again, though you are free to contact me. I wish you all the best). I have told a couple people never to contact me again, and as far as I recall they never have. And I have had a few guys I've dated stop contacting me / returning my calls. Eventually I gave up seeing if they were alright - I hardly pester people, and if so it would be out of good reason, such as concern for their well being.
Any how, I am trying not to judge M.'s boyfriend, or M. for that matter, but until I hear directly from M., if I see him in the street I will say hi.
There is more to this topic, personal experiences, I had thought of including, but it is late for me, and I made my point (rant).
For those that do read my blog, I would like to know your thoughts on this topic.
Blogging
Over the past year I have learned a few things about myself, including the fact that I'm not good at consistently blogging. Mostly because real life gets in the way. Therefore, my postings here may be sporadic.
I had thought about giving up on this blog, but then there are somethings I'd like to blog about, so I will be keeping this blog, but may not post regularly.
A few things happened to me today that I feel I need to blog about. They are in the following chronological posts (above).
I had thought about giving up on this blog, but then there are somethings I'd like to blog about, so I will be keeping this blog, but may not post regularly.
A few things happened to me today that I feel I need to blog about. They are in the following chronological posts (above).
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Playing with Picasa
Where I'm staying has slow wireless, so as I was waiting for email to load, I decided to look more at some of the many programs I have on my computer. The program I choose was Picasa 3 (a free program from Google: http://picasa.google.ca/
Due to a history of problems with my computer, I keep my files on an external hard drive, which I didn't plug in tonight. So the only photos I had to play with are the photos I have on my laptop - which consist primarily of photos for my desktop.
While I was playing with Picasa, I noticed first the Collage function, where you can create a collage of a series of photos. Then I noticed there was different settings for the collage, from the typicall pile photos, to mosaic, frame mosaic, grid, contact sheet, and multiple exposure.
After playing around with the layout I found the page format and noticed the Desktop Background button that turns the collage into the desktop background.
Below are the desktop photos I created:
If you want any of these as unwatermarked desktops, just email me and let me know which one: nudecanadianboy@yahoo.com
Due to a history of problems with my computer, I keep my files on an external hard drive, which I didn't plug in tonight. So the only photos I had to play with are the photos I have on my laptop - which consist primarily of photos for my desktop.
While I was playing with Picasa, I noticed first the Collage function, where you can create a collage of a series of photos. Then I noticed there was different settings for the collage, from the typicall pile photos, to mosaic, frame mosaic, grid, contact sheet, and multiple exposure.
After playing around with the layout I found the page format and noticed the Desktop Background button that turns the collage into the desktop background.
Below are the desktop photos I created:
- First the Pile Collage with nature photos I took (mostly from Scotland, but a couple from a plane over Brazil, a couple from else where in the UK, one from the Netherlands, and one from Canada)
- Second the Mosaic Collage with some of those nature photos (removed some to make the mosaic look somewhat good)
- Third the Mosaic Collage with some hot guy pics I have as backgrounds..... and as I am attempting to keep this blog 'clean' the guys aren't showing much more than a hot ass ;-)
If you want any of these as unwatermarked desktops, just email me and let me know which one: nudecanadianboy@yahoo.com
Saturday, July 25, 2009
World of Warcraft - The Internet is for porn (YouTube)
A friend showed me this, so I thought I'd share:
Info on YouTube:
Please note, I didn't make the video and I don't take credit for it. I happened to find the video on FilePlanet and downloaded it to share with you all here =)
Adapted for World of Warcraft, the song is from the musical Avenue Q.
Downloaded from FilePlanet at:
http://www.fileplanet.com/158925/150000/fileinfo/World-of-Warcraft---Internet-is-for-Porn
Info on YouTube:
Please note, I didn't make the video and I don't take credit for it. I happened to find the video on FilePlanet and downloaded it to share with you all here =)
Adapted for World of Warcraft, the song is from the musical Avenue Q.
Downloaded from FilePlanet at:
http://www.fileplanet.com/158925/150000/fileinfo/World-of-Warcraft---Internet-is-for-Porn
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Bill 44
As I mentioned a few posts ago, I really should have commented on the absurdity of Alberta's Bill 44....
Luckily a friend sent me this vid to point out the positives in the bill...
Luckily a friend sent me this vid to point out the positives in the bill...
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Additions to the blog
So I have been thinking of a few ideas to help myself post more than once a week.
One idea I have is to post my thoughts on some current event once a week, say Sundays.
I have noticed on a few other blogs I go to that aside from HNT there are other weekly posting, which I am going to start looking into (such as TMI Tuesdays) - though I'm not sure yet how to find out about some of them.
If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know. Usually something simple would be nice, as my life does tend to be busy.
These changes, like the Sunday Reflection, may take a couple weeks to appear as mentioned in my previous post, my laptop is in the shop for repairs and that limits my internet use (good and bad).
Please post any suggestions you have to this post :)
One idea I have is to post my thoughts on some current event once a week, say Sundays.
I have noticed on a few other blogs I go to that aside from HNT there are other weekly posting, which I am going to start looking into (such as TMI Tuesdays) - though I'm not sure yet how to find out about some of them.
If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know. Usually something simple would be nice, as my life does tend to be busy.
These changes, like the Sunday Reflection, may take a couple weeks to appear as mentioned in my previous post, my laptop is in the shop for repairs and that limits my internet use (good and bad).
Please post any suggestions you have to this post :)
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Happy Independance Day
A quick post to wish all those in the states that follow my blog a happy 4th of July - independance day.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Canada Day 2009!
Happy Canada Day everyone.....
... I'm in the office attempting to work, to earn money to pay for school.
Therefore today's post is almost a repost of last year's post....
I have reinstated the photos on last year's post, and I now direct you to that one as my full Canada Day blog post:
Canada Day
Enjoy.
... I'm in the office attempting to work, to earn money to pay for school.
Therefore today's post is almost a repost of last year's post....
I have reinstated the photos on last year's post, and I now direct you to that one as my full Canada Day blog post:
Canada Day
Enjoy.
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