ART in the Works
Well it has been a long time since i have posted here, but with good reason, been busy working and making art. Not that's excusable., but guess it's better than lazying about. So to catch you folk up to speed,
I just finished the first script of LOST THINGS and I have officially been published in INNOVATE magazine where I have my own column 'The ART of MAN'. The first article is about me and my art and why I do the art that I do and all the madness behind it. Now I am working on an article about Technology and Art, the good, the bad the pretty and the ugly, how technology gives and takes, with every advancement we lose touch with basic fundamentals that are the foundation stones that made it all possible.
I have been networking still trying to get BLACK TENT PRODUCTIONS up and running, getting actors and writers together. So this is where I have been and what I have been doing besides living life and trying to survive it, which we all can relate. Life is no piece of pie, especially when you're an artist. It is a roller coaster ride of ups and downs
So ladies and gents this is where the Mad Chandler has been spinning his hat, trying to catch a dream or two and make them come true and what kind of artist would I be if I did not try to market my wares? The Magazine can purchased for kindle or printed as far as I know as well as back issues here.
http://www.amazon.com/Innovate-E-Magazine-issue-Swaroop-Acharjee-ebook/dp/B00RB1NSTG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1421349579&sr=1-1&keywords=innovate+magazine
as I know as well as back issues here
'Projects & Thoughts of Things!!'
"Okay this is where you come to find out what type of artistic mischief I am up to. Simple enough!"
Gavion E. Chandler~
THE LEARNING CURVE OF THE PROCESS
The process of creating a play, just writing it and trying to communicate in thoughts and words is a task all unto to its own-self. Creating the 'World-stage' and the Players that come to embark on a journey of discovery where lessons are to be learned and shared and convey them to an audience is difficult enough of a task.
However when Producing, directing and designing the stage concept, how the Players are to be portrayed, and every little nuance of detail, this task can become quite an endeavor. The Planning and the preparation that has only began to develop in 'project conception' has been quite learning experience for me.
I am looking forward to this process, and I know I will learn and grow allot from it. I might be mad as a hatter before it's all done and over with, but then again I was already mad before, so a little more touch it won't hurt.
Gavion E. Chandler~
'Man is his own devil.'
Note~ The Image above is the finished Diorama with the Players
except for the Guillotine Man and the Stage floor
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Original Set Concept for The Cigarette Burn in its beginning stage.
Design and Creation by Gavion E. Chandler~
The Cigarette Burn is a play that I and Black Tent Productions are working on to produce with AFC (www.abraxasfilmcompany.com). There have been many a trial and tribulation to see this production to come to see full vision.
Below I have posted images of the set design that I have created to work out the vision and play of the player. I have as well included the Synopsis for The Cigarette Burn.
I will keep you posted as a I work forward towards the artistic goal of Black Tent Productions and hopefully get people to think.
THE CIGARETTE BURN
(SYNOPSIS)
The Cigarette Burn: leaving in its wake the seared and flaky flesh of the most delicate and conscientious of observers.
So the chain-smoking, coffee imbibing "man without a name" informs us. Angry and half mad, but entirely 'rational', "Just Joe" (the closest that we get to a name- albeit in joke form) pits himself as the calm observer of humanity. He does this even as the melodrama of life as we know it plays itself out behind him and he screams at the top of his rasped voice.
Another interesting character is the non-static server. He's capable of matching the sardonic pessimism of "Joe", yet acts to subvert the serious gravity with which our nameless one hits- something which he does with an acidic irony and, at times, a naivety.
Play By: Gavion E.Chandler~
Synopsis By: Daniel Mollenkamp
MaDnEss & GeNiuS
(It's Mad Roller Coaster Ride!!)
PROJECTS
The Plays of Shadows & The Conversation Series:
The Plays of Shadows & the Conversation Series are a series of plays where the 'audience' is the object and subject of the 'Mortality Players' of the plays that I have written. It is where, I the Playwright more or less have a shouting match with the audience.
Usually it is the players who are object of the scrutiny of the audience. Here the tables are turned and the Players come to throw their thoughts at the audience while they (the players) challenge and question the motives and nature of the audience.
I have posted character sketches of the player Gallery 5, Projects and Thoughts. I hope you enjoy them, and I will keep you up to date. Be well and live well.
Gavion E. Chandler~
'Man is his own devil.'
COMPANY MAN & the Man-machine
The Play
COMPANY MAN & the Man-machine play or just COMPANY MAN is a play of thoughts that have long festered in my brain, as I, in my life have come to muse the 'World of Man' and 'Man'. The thoughts of 'Man and his genius' are always at work in my art, whether it would be fashioned in words of thought or painted, sketched or inked into some vision of thought.
Watching society, learning, watching, and listening I have watched the collective efforts and concerns of a people grow more isolated and self-absorbed as our technological advancements create 'better and new ways' of doing things so that they are 'quicker and faster' that decreases the wait-time for self-gratification process to be fulfilled.
I grew up in the 80's when the first Malls were being put into style and the 'mall rat' became fashionable, and the new entertainment for teenagers, and as the marketing of our society advanced in business sociology and the economic structures grew more and more complex and the rise of corporate titans came to follow in the shadow of collective economic forces, I saw how we as a people grew more and more isolated and lost to our own particular sense of comforts.
Originally our country that was a 'Republic of America', that was founded in wisdom and illusions of truth, meaning our forefathers were brilliant men, but they were not necessarily nice men. They had their own agenda and man in his own sense of wisdom is his own devil of sorts. But that is another blog, but I think you get the gist. Then within time our State of Government was described to be a 'Democracy', where the government and its three branches represent the will and mind of 'the people'.
In the words of Thomas Paine, and in my opinion the 'true forefather of our country' "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.'
In that one statement, a simple truth is profoundly communicated, No matter what state of government, or religion for that matter, the idea and the promise of the thought and 'man's good intentions' hopes to serve some greater purpose of being;whether it will come to serve good or evil or free a people of a tyranny or oppress a people with ideals where success and failure, or some sense of truth that is but illusions of lies woven to serve and benefit a few raises a series of frightening inquiries.
A 'Man' is an individual, a thing of conscious and will and heart that dares to dream and believe to know some good, some greatness to be of his soul. In his heart, he lives and breathes this. This is the 'individual'. However in society, that 'Man' and his sense of self and purpose is cast in the shadow of society and those expectations that have been groomed, and shaped in standards, and beliefs of the collective whole, or that which is thought to believed to be the 'collective whole'.
Now you are probably wondering what this has to do with COMPANY MAN ?
As a society and its government progresses, the original intention or goal of that said government alters and changes and adapts to the particular needs and wants of the people or those in power, and what it started out as, is not necessarily what ends up and or what it is destined to be. History of Man forges such governmental forces as does the forces of nature, but the forces of man are bent on will and heart and tempered in thoughts and deeds that are absolutely wondrous and perfectly terrifying.
As I began, Our government started in concept as a 'Republic' and then was declared and defined in 'common knowledge' as a 'Democracy', that now has become and is a 'Corporate State' where the will of the people are subject to the wants and needs of those Corporations that govern us in our needs and wants.
The 'Idea of the Individual' is minimized to the least common denominator so that it has no voice and no point of will, mean while it is maximized to the greatest level of productivity that serves no one end. That 'Idea of the individual' is seen as a necessary evil to the 'Corporate Entity' and as a score of data, but that 'Idea of the individual' is seen as viable threat to the 'Corporate Entity' and those principles and practices that come to govern it in its arenas of influence.
COMPANY MAN was sparked by my overseer at my job, when he told me you have to stop thinking the 'Civilian way' and start thinking the 'Company way' which means not to think, but rather to conform and not question the policies and practices, even if they don't mean a lick of sense.
This little state sparked and ignited that leaky fuel tank that has been festering in my brain for many years now. I worked for Walmart for three years and probably one of the most evil corporations I have ever worked for. I affectionately describe them as 'Mehmed the Conqueror armed with a Coke a smile'. The difference between them (Walmart) and Mehmed is Mehmed came with an army of 300,000 and surrounded the city and demanded them to surrender with only a promise to pay tribute to him. When the city surrendered, he would proceed to transplant scholars,artisans, politicians and socially, economically de-assimilate them and then within ten years find reason to commit war on them. Walmart comes with a promise of jobs and economic resolution and then commits penetration marketing tactics and undermines the social economic structure of the community, just as the malls did to the community businesses in the 80's.
COMPANY MAN has such thoughts that was sparked by a comment that exploded into play about such issues that grew into surreal and haunting world of merciless and brutal business practices that are Machiavellian in principle. It embraces my art and its iconic images of 'Visions of Man' series in concept and thought as well.
But these are some of my thoughts and the idea behind the play.
The play itself takes Joshua Beckett and Troy Ravage who work for Mr. Solomon Esquire III and Manhattan Enterprises who must come to grips with WATCHWARE program and Machiavellian practices as marketing technology that borders on espionage and intelligence data collecting are raises into morality question.
Solomon Esquire III is a relentless businessman with little or no remorse and oversees his Corporation with Voivode, 'war prince' until Edward Abbott and Mr. Barniby come on board.
The play raises into question such principle of practices where the 'Corporate entity' diminishes the 'idea of the individual' and capitalizes and profits on it meanwhile suppressing the potential of the individual because it is deems as threat to the 'entity of the Corporate state' because the individual can challenge and question those practices and principles that the Corporation institutes and regulates to serve its own ends.
This is the play and the concept that is now two hundred pages.
Gavion E. Chandler~
"Man is his own devil.'