[Les Miserables] 10th anniversary - The Confrontation

Les Miserables - On My Own

Les Mis

Well Last night I spent three hours watching the LesMis 25th anniversary performance on PBS. I have seen this show five times, in San Fransisco, New York, and in Boston. I loved this show, and to see it last night with the new format was amazing, not to thrilled with the new cast the drug up, a freaking Jonas Brother should never be in Les Mis!! I am a total sap and i love it, I couldn't believe I remembered all the damn songs.
This musical is so amazing, and something everyone can relate to in some manner, looking for redemption, freedom, revenge, love whatever it is in this musical. For you folks who might be even more daring read the book!!Truly an amazing tale, seeing how one mans life is effected by his decisions and how those decisions effect so many others.
If you aren't a musical fan well, sod off!! the next few pics and clips are from this amazing show,well actually from the better shows with better singers!LOl!

The Cosmic Egg and the World Serpent

Well i have been looking into mythologies lately, and seeing the similarities across the spectrum. The first one is the cosmic Egg idea of creation. A giant egg out there waiting to open and create the heavens and the earth, and then the creators emerging to then create the gods and then to populate the earth. The Cosmic egg has traditions in China, ,The Dogon people of Africa, Aztecs and many of the Pacific Island tribes have this myth.

Another world creator that is spread across the earth is that of the World Serpent, this exists in Egyptian Mythology, Greek, Australian and many African myths.Thor once while fishing pulled up the great World Serpent in Norse myth. The Hindu God Vishnu rests on the Serpent Ananta when serpent appears from his navel the flower opens and the creator god Brahma appears inside.

One Week

In one week, life as I have known it, will be completely different. I am very excited for the new possibilities, challenges and the sense of adventure it brings. However there are some major drawbacks. Here are some pics of my greatest work of art and the greatest thing to ever happen in my life.

Return to Neverworlds

Well the time has come to return to Neverworlds.Bring on the Lost boys and Pirates, the faeries and storytellers, card readers, and belly dancers. But most of all light up the dream tree, set off your imagination and open your heart to any possibility that may present itself if only for three days in the shadow of Mt. Pisgah.

I am very excited to say the least, and there is a lot to get done over the next few months. But I am so lucky to have the help of amazing friends to design and bring this thing to life. You have no idea how wonderful it is to just create with friends, a place like this, and then try to make it become something real. Truth be told its the only way anything like this can become reality, by sharing in the primordial milky soup of creativity, that something far greater than you ever anticipated can come out. Thank you everyone for all the help and continued craziness that will grow out of this.

This year we will be adding some fun new areas including a Tea Party and a Gypsy Circle with story tellers and fortune tellers, not to mention circus school and treasure hunts with the Lost Boys, and fun Eco friendly crafts at the Indian encampment!! Oh yeah and a huge freaking pirate ship stage!! so much to do !!

A new book of creatures, gods and godesses.

A few years ago i started a book of illustrations of fae creatures, mainly from Europe, that really got me started on my current artistic bent towards the folklore of the world. Now i am starting a new book, that will focus on the folklore of Asia and the pacific islands. I am finding i can easily do a book on just one country, the stories and spirits, gods, and other inhabitants in these stories are amazing. The first book took about a year to finish hopefully this one wont take so long. Here are some pics from the first book i did, and the first pic from the second. This is drawing of Hanuman a character that is the depiction of loyalty and companionship.