One and Done.

Yesterday was day one of the archival project with Taryn Lindsey Photography (Columbus Pin Up Studios). It took two hours to record 6 numbers with only one re-do.   I think it went pretty well, and some of the images I got to preview looked amazing so I am excited. I have 9 more to go. It's not everything but it's a good sampler of my work. If I were to do every number I ever made I would be there a week.

I did struggle after the shoot though. I haven't been happy with my performances lately and I can't figure out why I am not.  When discussing my struggle with Totalie, it was re-discovered that my original plan for Trulie was a "one and done" kind of feel. I still spend countless hours making paper dresses only to destroy them, but I was churning out a new number every show, and only doing one number per show when I first started. The idea was once I did a number I wouldn't do it again.

This became an issue when I started to get more gigs. Working full time made it very difficult to perform more than once every two weeks under these rules of mine, and producers always wanted two numbers from each performer. I let that inform my direction, and began to make numbers that used regular clothes (travels better, doesn't require build time after the initial pull) and I started to repeat numbers. (I got really fast at making certain dresses.)

I think that has lead me here to this place of me being unsatisfied. I do love these numbers, but nothing seems to compare to the feeling I have after walking offstage having performed a number for the first time. I was surprised when I realized just how much I had let others inform my direction. It's not a negative thing, I am happy to work with people, I just lost sight and that must be why I am unhappy.

I think I need to find that path again and see if I can get that feeling back.

Twitch Time

Totalie has been telling me I should have a Twitch stream for some time now, and I fought him on it until yesterday.  I decided being more open with my process would help me to grow, and of course fear is something that is worth conquering. You can find his channel here: Veetorp

We started by programming the raspberry pi for the show we have on Saturday at Ruby Tuesday Live because it was pi day so why not! We use the pi for sound and video because most of the time, we are a two person crew. It's very nice to have it for conventions and festivals.

If we are going to continue streaming...he's gonna have to clean his room....

After we went through that, Crys Darling of Label Yourself came over and she and I discussed DRAUMA. Since this year isn't a competition, and every designer has been assigned their own album, we felt more comfortable showing pieces of the looks we are creating. We wanted to show a bit of what it is like to work side by side as two designers with strong ideas (and how to work together to solve issues created by that fact ^_^ ) This episode (do they call them episodes?! I'm gonna have to learn terminology here) was more of a discussion but next time I will show more of the process. I think I will make her skirt on the stream since we talked about it.

Tomorrow Totalie and I will be making sandwiches on a new app I heard about called Nom. We started season one of The Trulie Awesome Online Show last year by making sandwiches and interviewing people, and I didn't want to continue that into season two (we have different plans for season two) but I still like sandwiches, so this app may be what I need for it.

 It's live cooking shows. I just thought it would be neat to try but I can not seem to get their tech support to respond to my email asking why "The Trulie Awesome Show" is reserved. At this point, even if we broadcast, we may not be searchable. Right now I am on there as @TrulieScrumptious but again, if you try nom.com/truliescrumptious is wont take you anywhere. I can continue the sandwich interviews recorded and edited on YouTube, but live is a bit more of what I am looking for.