Armed and Dangerous Cricket?
*Absolutely what we were looking for: Mantid with false eyes on wings
Mantis Camo=clever
African Flower Mantis
Brown Mantid
Thorny, Angry mantid
***Dead Leaf Mantis
Albino Thorny Mantid
Fantastic Wing Pattern
Mass link list: Insects and Fish from Flickr.
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More Danger
Eyes in All the Wrong Places
Below are links to fish, insects, and other animals with coloration patterns more or less towards the eyes and designs meant for danger and protection.
Radical Grasshopper
Flamboyant Cuttle Fish
Atlas Moth
Another Atlas Moth
Monkey Face Moth
Eyed Moth
Article on Scare Patterns and protective designs on insects, with pictures
Furthermore, I found a few pics of architecture that fits some of the ideas that have been tossed around. These are temple and sculptural models that I found fantastic.
Massive overgrowth on ancient Hindu temple in Ta Prohm
Hindu version of gargoyle
Kala Demon and vegetative motif
Thailand Tourism site, with ideas for ornate architecture and sculpture
McFarlane and Barker
Way back in 2001 artist, sculptor, and master action figure crafter, Toddd McFarlane teamed with Clive Barker to create a line of horrifying figures known as "Tortured Souls".
Link to official gallery and site here.
These images play with the ideas of danger, fear, power, duality, and a sensation of "Should this exist? Should I be here?" that we touched on in the production meeting.
Moving Pictures
For some fantastically offbeat reason, music videos to Tool are laden with images and ideas we've discussed as important, thematically and aesthetically, to the production. Because of this: imbedded video.
Tool: "Sober"
Tool: "Sober"
Ideas of escape into a dangerous realm and self discovery.
Awakening, self discovery amidst completely alien environment
Tool: "Jambi"
Twinship, and dual entities
Tool: "Parabola"
Awakening, self discovery amidst completely alien environment
Links to Barker Galleries
With Clive Barker being so readily accepted into our cannon of research, a few wonderful galleries have popped up showcasing massive amounts of his original artwork.
The official Clive Barker website:
Gothic Images
In keeping with the idea of melding Gothic architecture with the Barker research, here are a few I've been looking at for their indicative Gothic nature and somewhat sharp, grotesque beauty.
Ideas tossed around in the production meeting also pointed to treating the fairies as sculpture. Here are some ideas of the treatment of the humyn figure within architecture and sculpture from French high Gothic and [armor] Germanic influences.
The link to the site for the armor can be found here.
-Great link to further research
Barker, Barker, Barker
These images went over very well in the Production meeting, especially the third. Cindy saw this fusion of the two bodies as an idea for the relationship between Puck and Oberon. The second image is one that beget the idea of a pregnant puck, while the first is from a similar series by Clive Barker, and again shows the potential costume applications of twinship, bonded beings, and absurdity.
People as Living Grotesque Sculpture
This first video has an idea of some treatments for humyns as sculpture, particularly a sense of stone, pain, and horror.
Tool: "Stinkfist"
Below is a treatment of the body as an unreal entity emerging from the world it exists in, changes, and in the end fuses into another.
Tool: "Schism"
Below is a treatment of the body as an unreal entity emerging from the world it exists in, changes, and in the end fuses into another.
Tool: "Schism"
Production Meeting #1: Notes and Ideas
The following is a flow of the ideas tossed about in the 1st production meeting of the full team, mainly laying out the wishes and proto-ideas of director Cindy Phaneuf.
-Imagination as challenge to team: begin in world of structure, only way to escape is to leave world into a more dangerous one
-leads to Magical Forest of MSND
magical grotesque?: dangerous, but area for self discovery in a world "out of control"
*self aware as meta-theatre?
-things not going well in Fairy realm
-nature completely absurd
-tension between opposites; transformation between such
-heightened impracticality
-multidiminsional space: drop from ceiling
+spirit of anarchy
3rd Realm of Play: Mechanicals
-only group getting along
-dignity of working class
-charmed, not dumbed down
-other worlds (fairy, lovers, humyns) must learn from them
-Imagination as challenge to team: begin in world of structure, only way to escape is to leave world into a more dangerous one
-leads to Magical Forest of MSND
magical grotesque?: dangerous, but area for self discovery in a world "out of control"
*self aware as meta-theatre?
-things not going well in Fairy realm
-nature completely absurd
-tension between opposites; transformation between such
-heightened impracticality
-multidiminsional space: drop from ceiling
+spirit of anarchy
3rd Realm of Play: Mechanicals
-only group getting along
-dignity of working class
-charmed, not dumbed down
-other worlds (fairy, lovers, humyns) must learn from them
MOON as a major image throughout play
World between sleep and wake
hot ice, strange snow [ashes?]
seasons are very wrong
World between sleep and wake
hot ice, strange snow [ashes?]
seasons are very wrong
Grotesque: don't know whats coming or where its been
weird shapes: organic, but not natural
Fairies as mime statues in humyn world, then escape to alternate
Havn't been here, shouldn't/cant be here: keep surprising the audience
weird shapes: organic, but not natural
Fairies as mime statues in humyn world, then escape to alternate
Havn't been here, shouldn't/cant be here: keep surprising the audience
REFLECTIVE SURFACES: Cirque de Soleil, Growtowsky(?)
Water at edge of greek (doric order) structure, being consumed by nature
Water at edge of greek (doric order) structure, being consumed by nature
*crumbling architecture returned to earth
*Indian temples
*Mayan pyramids unearthed
ARTAUD: THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE
"nerves & heart"
+major influence of twinship+
Faires: 2bodies bonded into 1
Fire, webby, airy richness
simple, resonant shadow, and its physical double {artaud}
*Indian temples
*Mayan pyramids unearthed
ARTAUD: THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE
"nerves & heart"
+major influence of twinship+
Faires: 2bodies bonded into 1
Fire, webby, airy richness
simple, resonant shadow, and its physical double {artaud}
Quiet Self Discovery
Grotesque: inside and outside VERY different
_Clean, big architecture
=man made nature
Quiet, moving to whirling dervish
-false silhouettes, changing of humyn form
DISTORTION OF THE BODY
pettiness of fairy royalty
TRANSPARENCY THROUGH HISTERIA
finding calm through understanding at max chaos
Costumes:
Underground world of current society: bizarre beauty of alternate lifestyles
-RD, vampire society
-fetishwear
-dangerous outward; loved sense of safety and belonging to those within lifestyle
Grotesque: inside and outside VERY different
_Clean, big architecture
=man made nature
Quiet, moving to whirling dervish
-false silhouettes, changing of humyn form
DISTORTION OF THE BODY
pettiness of fairy royalty
TRANSPARENCY THROUGH HISTERIA
finding calm through understanding at max chaos
Costumes:
Underground world of current society: bizarre beauty of alternate lifestyles
-RD, vampire society
-fetishwear
-dangerous outward; loved sense of safety and belonging to those within lifestyle
#PREGNANT PUCK?#
rEALM of not knowing, but longing for knowledge of it
!!!Barker: Hellraiser (Cenobyte society)
!!!Barker: Hellraiser (Cenobyte society)
Movie: "What Dreams May Come"
need to go to the forest
more opposition
what am i supposed to be? happy? scared?
=constantly reevaluate=
how you see yourself and others in what you want to be become
Pushed to ugly & desperation
too dark = not being able to leave
need to go to the forest
more opposition
what am i supposed to be? happy? scared?
=constantly reevaluate=
how you see yourself and others in what you want to be become
Pushed to ugly & desperation
too dark = not being able to leave
Grotesque: coming through walls
-crawling and climbing, sculpting the space with actor's body
SIMPLE POWER
Puck: Subject to burst of "enthusiasm"
"If Puck found and umbrella, what would it be?"
-crawling and climbing, sculpting the space with actor's body
SIMPLE POWER
Puck: Subject to burst of "enthusiasm"
"If Puck found and umbrella, what would it be?"
*Period of real world?
*Mechanicals: what would they do, as common people, if put into theatre position
*Mechanicals: what would they do, as common people, if put into theatre position
Clever
over
Elaborate
a person must be viewed by others in terms of
"Who are you, and how did you get the way you are?"
-supreme complexity beneath exterior-
over
Elaborate
a person must be viewed by others in terms of
"Who are you, and how did you get the way you are?"
-supreme complexity beneath exterior-
Initial Ideas
The first ideas we've been running with have come from Gothic architecture, gargoyles, and French grotesque. Further revelations came when we began fusing this with the influence of the likes of Nine Inch Nails, fetishwear, industrial/underground lifestyles, Tool...and Clive Barker.
The paintings and concept work of Barker has been a significant influence in finding the feel for initial design work, as well as an artistic style the team can embrace for further research.
More inquiry is needed in the realm of Eastern influence, specifically in Hindu mythology, Kali Demon architectural motifs, and Indian architecture influences as fused with the European Gothic Structures.
Statement of Purpose and Disclaimer
This blog exists to ease the transition of information between myself, the Assistant Costume Designer, and the head Costume Designer, Robbie Jones. All members of the production team will have access to the read-only version of the site, director included, but only the Costume crew will be given access to posting and editing the content of this site.
Images and information posted here may or may not be final renditions of ideas used in the production, representative of any production material, or direction taken by the design team. All ideas are subject to change, alteration, or omission given direction of the production.
*Unless noted, images and video are copyright of their respective owners, and are presented here on a discussion basis only, not as original work to be sold or distributed.
Designs for UNO's production of William Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream are property of their respective designer, as well as the production and may be used only with written permission and consent of all parties.
Images and information posted here may or may not be final renditions of ideas used in the production, representative of any production material, or direction taken by the design team. All ideas are subject to change, alteration, or omission given direction of the production.
*Unless noted, images and video are copyright of their respective owners, and are presented here on a discussion basis only, not as original work to be sold or distributed.
Designs for UNO's production of William Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream are property of their respective designer, as well as the production and may be used only with written permission and consent of all parties.
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