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~
Ian
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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!"
Ian has performed his poetic, choreographic, and theatric material in many venues: Artists-At-Large, Inc., AS220, Bowery Poetry Club, Casa Nia, Club Passim, Evos Arts Institute, Green Street Studios, Mobius Art Space, Puppet Showplace Theatre, Revolving Musem, Warwick Museum of Art, and the Zeitgeist Gallery. In addition, he has performed with Bread & Puppet Theater and as part of the Dresden Dolls' Brigade. 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 instructor at Brookline Community Center for the Arts and Open Air Circus.
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Re: Faith in aliens
(in Battlestar Galactica)
Why wouldn't the Vatican's chief astronomer believe that the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is probable? He is, after all, a scientist.
Why wouldn't he see extraterrestrial intelligences as spiritual siblings? He is, after all, a ... read more discussion post on Wed, May 14, 2008 - 7:44 PM
Re: new enemy for the doctor
(in Doctor Who)
Your point being what?
That Orwell was correct in noting that Communism used socialist rhetoric to justify cruel totalitarian state-capitalism? That Orwell was correct in noting that war (whether hot, cold, or proxy) was a good way of maintaini... read more discussion post on Wed, May 14, 2008 - 7:07 PM
Re: Tired of Cylon Angst
(in Battlestar Galactica)
She was just about two years old when Sharon/Athena rescued her during the Battle of the Algae Planet-- how much time has elapsed since then is unknown to me. Battlestar Wiki lists her as being currently two years old:
en.battlestarwiki... read more discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 2:06 PM
Re: new enemy for the doctor
(in Doctor Who)
"The US is a war economy. pure and simple. has been for decades. "
Interestingly enough, we see this dynamic all over the world. One could argue that the Hamas government in Gaza deliberately fights a war they cannot possibly win instead of ne... read more discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 1:58 PM
Re: new enemy for the doctor
(in Doctor Who)
"I think that's Orwell showing his socialist background"
You do realize that the dominant political party in 1984's Oceana was IngSoc (English Socialism)? While the rival superpowers were EurAsia (obviously a satire on the USSR) and EastAsia (... read more discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 1:46 PM
My Blog
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:
Sat, October 6, 2007 - 4:28 PM
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I have relocated my main blog to ianthal.blogspot.com for greater flexibility. This month I…
Sun, September 2, 2007 - 7:49 AM
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…explain why the production of the “Scottish Play” I’m in has been postponed: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/08...ber.html …reflect on almost a year of studying kathak, a classical dance form from Northern India: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/08...hak.html …see a performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/08...mon.html …describe the commedia dell’arte and mime classes I taught at Open Air Circus: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/08...cus.html ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/08...cus.html …ask for readers’ help in identifying two Javanese wayang kulit shadow puppets: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/08...ets.html …describe my revision process as I work on my play: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/08...rds.html
I have relocated my main blog to ianthal.blogspot.com for greater flexibility.
Wed, August 1, 2007 - 6:55 AM
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This is an index of postings from July 2007: A clip from “The Adventures of CMYK” a short film in which I play a foppish classics teacher: ianthal.blogspot.com//2007/0...myk.html Rehearsals begin for Macbeth and I discuss various aspects of the production: ianthal.blogspot.com//2007/0...eth.html ianthal.blogspot.com//2007/0...gue.html ianthal.blogspot.com//2007/0...lio.html ianthal.blogspot.com//2007/0...ive.html The Literary Review of Canada prints my letter regarding Professor Shiraz Dossa’s trip to Tehran: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/07...ada.html A poem of mine is published in a new online poetry journal: ianthal.blogspot.com//2007/0...l-0.html I have a little disagreement with the local business association regarding their attitude towards performing artists: ianthal.blogspot.com//2007/0...and.html
My main blog has relocated to ianthal.blogspot.com due to greater support for html.
Mon, July 2, 2007 - 8:55 AM
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This is what happened in June: Yet another round with G. Tod Slone, publisher of the American Dissident: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/06...ack.html Some photographs of a recent performance with i Sebastiani, the greatest commedia dell'arte troupe in the entire world: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/06...-dc.html I explore the web and discover other “Ian Thals”: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/06...ers.html I have been cast in a production of “The Scottish Play” to be staged in August: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/06...uch.html And for the first post of July: a letter of mine was published in the Literary Review of Canada: ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/07...ada.html
I've just been cast in the Lallygagging Players' production of Macbeth which will be presented at Willoughy and Baltic on August 17, 18, 19, 24 and 25 in Somerville, Massachusetts. That is all for now.
Fri, June 29, 2007 - 2:37 PM
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