joined on 05/28/04
last updated 05/24/12
December 26, 2007
~Cosmic Ian, Performance artist, poet, Mime, Puppeteer of this dimension. The ancient energy you connect modern audiences with is special and unique! Your love of your art form and Individuality is a lesson for us all. I always look forward to your performances because for one brief moment I am not in the twenty-first century time/space but another place, not necessarily a time but a sensation, a mirror into other worlds filled with splendid divine and demonic characters~
about me
Ian Thal is a multimedia artist who works in the media of poetry, mime, and puppet theatre, frequently collaborating with Cosmic Spelunker Theater, a troupe he co-founded with William J. Barnum and James Van Looy in 2001 and also performs with i Sebastiani "The Greatest Commedia dell'Arte Troupe in the Entire World!" In addition, he has performed with Bread & Puppet Theater and as part of the Dresden Dolls' Brigade.
His play, "Total War", was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, and he also performs his one-man play, "Arlecchino Am Ravenous" whenever and wherever possible.
His poetry has appeared in Out of the Blue Writers Unite (Crooked River Press, 2003), Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway (P&Q Press, 2003) and has work forthcoming in Becoming Fire (Andover-Newton Pess, 2006) as well as in such magazines as Boom! For Real, Crooked River Press, Flash!Point, Ibbetson Street Press, and Poesy. His work also appeared as part of an installation during the 2003 Boston CyberArts Festival
He also served as a mime and commedia dell'arte instructor at the Huntington Theatre, the Stoneham Theatre, Brookline Community Center for the Arts and Open Air Circus.
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Call for Actors: Staged Reading of Total War
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I am staging a reading of my play "Total War" at Outpost 186 in Cambridg...
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Thu, March 19, 2009 - 8:37 AM
http://ex.plode.us/
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"A great idea but it looks like it is still in Beta"
ex.plode.us is a website that claims to provide " the glue between web 2.0 applications" i.e. blogs and social network sites like Tribe.net. In fact, I discovered it in part because it's web crawlers had created a profile of me based in part on m...
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recommendation posted on Fri, May 25, 2007 - 8:42 AM
Christinas Ice Cream
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"My Neighborhood Ice Cream Parlor (even before I moved to the neighborhood.)"
Whoever makes Christina's ice cream has an amazing talent of getting the essence of a flavor. Their chocolates (I use the plural because of the many variations of chocolate) are not so much rich as intense. Due to the adjacent spice shop, any of...
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recommendation posted on Sun, October 1, 2006 - 7:08 PM
incredible website recommendation thread
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"Anything you can do I can do meta- / I can do anything meta- than you"
So when do we do the incredible webite recommendation thread recommendation thread recommendation thread?
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incredible website
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"The web equivalent of attending a political rally and being surrounded by acid burnouts"
[Note: that I saw this site at 6am and I can be terribly snarky when dealing with something I don't like that early in the morning. In retrospect t I should have kept my opinion to myself, because, though I found the site unpleasant on the eyes, ...
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I don't actively use the Tribe blog feature anymore since I prefer something less gated like blogspot, but I thought my tribe friends would want to check this out:
ianthal.blogspot.com/2008/06...lle.html
This past month I paid tribute to one of my heroes, the late Marcel Marceau, and follow a controversy of which I first wrote this past April regarding the exhibition of an artwork that contained Holocaust denial material:
ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/09/
Sun, September 2, 2007 - 7:49 AM
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