Mother of Invention Acting School — Los Angeles — Blog
Go Deeper Now.
got something you want to share?
Posted in
arts
,
creativity
,
future
,
society
on March 13th, 2010 by Andrew
I think you should watch this.
H/T
a poor player
Tweet
Leave A Comment »
Google +1
Mother of Invention Acting School Home Page –
Acting Class Los Angeles/ Acting Class Hollywood
All posts on this blog ©2012 by Andrew Utter.
Search This Blog
Mother of Invention on Yelp
Pages
About Me
Performances I Like
Mother of Invention on Facebook
Become a Fan
Mother of Invention on Twitter
RSS
Subscribe in a reader
Uranium Madhouse
Mother of Invention on Google Buzz
Subscribe to this Blog by Email
Subscribe by Email
Twitter updates
Meta
Log in
Entries
RSS
Comments
RSS
WordPress.org
Mother of Invention Blog Archives
►
2013
►
5May 2013
(3)
brilliant lecture by Scorsese on the power of film
the dark engine
Mother of Inventioner wins screenwriting contest
►
Apr 2013
(3)
Patti Smith's Advice to Young Artists
Roger Ebert: film as prayer
chekhov work
►
Mar 2013
(3)
meet the posse
need an agent?
catching up with Annie Murphy
►
Feb 2013
(8)
CS Lee of Dexter endorses Mother of Invention
You are a splendid torch. FLAME ON!!!!!
Jessica Tandy on being believed in (by Tennessee Williams)
the committment
The Actor's Vow -- from Elia Kazan
how you like me now?
18 reasons to take acting class at Mother of Invention
acting for film class
►
Jan 2013
(3)
Uta Hagen's righteous rant on the state of acting today
the energy garden
Anais Nin on Embracing the Unfamiliar
►
2012
►
Dec 2012
(2)
all the way down
film and immersion
►
Nov 2012
(2)
Becoming an actor means...
A Man's A Man slideshow
►
Oct 2012
(4)
atlantic city and thornton wilder: weather imitates art
"If there’s such a thing as knowing with the whole body..."
acting the absolute
clothing and transformation
►
Sep 2012
(5)
the hara! the hara!
Friends and Family Night September 2012
on daring greatly
is all of this really necessary?
persimmon wisdom
►
Jul 2012
(1)
dedication
►
Jun 2012
(1)
a neverending story
►
Apr 2012
(1)
A Man’s A Man cast — a work in progress
►
Mar 2012
(4)
living through reading
catching brass rings
Friends and Family Night -- March 2012
"you have to love the sweat more than the lights"
►
Feb 2012
(4)
deliberate practice
we got the beat
it's never too late
Best of Mother of Invention Blog 2011
►
Jan 2012
(8)
on translating for the theater and translating #Brecht
on transference
remembering Earle Gister
what Uranium Madhouse is up to
RIP Earle Gister 1934-2012
underlying objective, from ancient Indian scripture
Kurt Vonnegut's chalk talk on the shapes of stories
Iran is where it's at...
►
2011
►
Dec 2011
(9)
losing the suburban
George and Clarence and Galy Gay
not everybody made the list this year, Michael Fassbender
speaking volumes
the payoff
the stuff you just can't fake
trust issues
John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) on the creative process
the power and importance of regret
►
Nov 2011
(8)
who could have predicted?
conferrers of authority
carrying water and chopping wood
before and after
leaving the comfort zone
the poet's advice for the actor
"rehearsal is for fags"
Uranium Madhouse gets a marketing ninja
►
Oct 2011
(7)
angel of the morning
Composer Alex Fishkin to write music for
A Man's A Man
"and then I practice until it's time to play."
First
A Man's A Man
cast member: Cris D'Annunzio
New Mantra:
Brecht estate grants Uranium Madhouse permission to do new translation
New Mantra:
►
Sep 2011
(19)
Blink-182, the abdominal core, and ecstatic release
the cradle of power
on starting a new cycle
more wisdom from John Locke
on
Chad Deity
that's our JB
let the necessary speak
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
"What are we going to do about your face?"
"there is always an easy solution...
"Nothing astonishes...
not that I'm surprised...
never forget
feet flat on the floor
approaching Strindberg
danger artists
speaking of making things happen
Neil Strauss on motivation
freedom lies on the other side of technique
►
Aug 2011
(17)
when a space becomes a world
if you want me, I'll be at the Bowl
Why I founded a "school"
Gronbeck-Tedesco quote of the day: openness
is there an echo in here?
Neil Strauss'
Rules of the Game
and actors
Travis Shakespeare at the Raindance Film Festival
Indie queen Patricia Clarkson keeping it real
the circus of the given circumstances
it can't be said often enough
how he changed their lives
receive, reorganize, return
H.L. Mencken on the American plutocracy
mid-cycle class email
on seeing The Future
Matt Damon's slam-dunk defense of teachers (watch it to the end!)
words to live by: Bertolt Brecht
►
Jul 2011
(24)
things that surprise people about my classes
people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it, or, acting is sales (believe it or not!)
Utoya: a reflection, for actors
the fortress of solitude
Oscar-nominated film editor endorses Mother of Invention
the "second brain" in the gut
the improv question
recommended movement forms for actors
the proactive actor
the actor and the sentence
filling negative space, or, the Tao of acting
peaks and valleys
the problem with "tactics", or, the art of asking
everyone should post this everywhere
on characters judging themselves
Dionysus in 69 video
they walk among us
Uranium Madhouse show in pictures
Susan Sontag video essay on Syberberg's Hitler
on stiffness, or, the only way out is through
Announcing SF Essentials Intensive in September
casting director endorsement
knowing-what and knowing-how
Patricia Clarkson Paul Giamatti Frances McDormand Stanley Tucci
►
Jun 2011
(7)
the seriousness of children at play
live to act
Travis Shakespeare in yet another (!) Film Festival
Javier Bardem's laboratory, or, render to Caesar that which is Caesar's
to everyone who has ever wanted to audit my class
at 81, with no sign of letting up
the wisdom of John Locke
►
May 2011
(1)
smart, willing actors and Chekhov's Three Sisters
►
Apr 2011
(10)
a little Rilke...
the real value
the right work
How you like me NOW?
Friends and Family Night Pics
Houses of Cards happen.
Kylie's salty chocolate balls...
Did I happen to mention?
Uranium Madhouse Bake Sale!!!
a rare opportunity for actors
►
Mar 2011
(5)
NPR discovers the Alexander technique
Uranium Madhouse Actors: Getting to Know You
from The Office to Torchwood
Uranium Madhouse show is cast
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board #8-- Elena Faro
►
Feb 2011
(10)
"Honey, I've got an idea!"
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
How Can You Resist?
"If' I'm gonna die for a word...
auditions for Conversation Storm at Uranium Madhouse!
the latest from Uranium Madhouse
your entity theory is showing
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board Member #7-- Matthew McCray
what Ari's been up to
Cris D'Annunzio on The Office tonight!
►
Jan 2011
(9)
and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
Word. Just, word.
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: William Haugse
for the first time in 6 years...
Mother of Invention blog greatest hits
Uranium Madhouse Blog launches
Uranium Madhouse launches Indiegogo campaign
notes on immersion
the power of vulnerability
►
2010
►
Dec 2010
(31)
Lets Go See Shakespeare
above all else
On Success and Failure
Uranium Comes Back to Colorado?
madness: it's what's for breakfast
People are talking about Uranium Madhouse - a video
You should be on Broadway
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Deidre Suber
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: JB Waterman
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Tyne Marie Gaudielle
Uranium Madhouse's upcoming company retreat
"my heart is as guarded as a nuclear reactor"
BOOYEAH!!: Uranium Madhouse Gets A Fiscal Sponsor
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: David Bauman
Performances I Like page
on serving two masters
Uranium Madhouse gets a Managing Director
funny, I was just talking about...
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Stanton Wood
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Ben Miller
one reason why I don't care much for Tony Kushner
New Yorkers: this show sounds very interesting
Explaining an Arts NonProfit
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Rick Burkhardt
Flash Mob Gone Terribly Wrong by Tom Scott, Ep 77
acting on the razor's edge
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Brian Bauman
SoCal Friends and Family Night December 2010
listen to the atomic scientist and the political visionary
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Lucas Krech
ok, not really my style but...
►
Nov 2010
(22)
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Travis Shakespeare!
how Shakespeare changes us
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Cris D'Annunzio
Derek Jacobi on finally playing Lear, being gay, stagefright, and other stuff
fascinating interview with creator of Doonesbury
why Uranium Madhouse?
9 people I am thankful for
cool stuff I saw on the internet
NorCal Friends and Family Night December 2010
Uranium Madhouse website launches
playing the bad guy
there is no limit to what virtuosity combined with daring can do
two Sunday Afternoons
quantum leaps
"I didn't want the movie to end"
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board Member #6: Alex Fishkin
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board Member #5 -- Joanne Butcher
wisdom for actors
Sondheim and the business writer
Mother of Inventioner to appear on The Office
SF Alexander workshop
inspiration visited me tonight
►
Oct 2010
(14)
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board member #4: Karim Javeri
Uranium Madhouse working logo
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board Member #3: Elisa Carlson
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board member #2: Dr. Amir Eshel
some thoughts on The Social Network
more congratulations!
Uranium Madhouse gets its first Advisory Board Member: meet David Chambers
Southpark does Inception
Angela Hahn books a role in an indie feature
listening to liars
the tallest tale of them all
the actor as Renaissance man
I'm just sayin'
It's Tuesday, so Travis must be in a Belgian film festival
►
Sep 2010
(8)
on the character actor
things I did in San Francisco
Rommel's rule
linkies
end-of-the-cycle thoughts
rockstar set designer Erik Flatmo joins Uranium Madhouse
Friends and Family Night-- SoCal and NorCal
theater company mission statement: a work in progress
►
Aug 2010
(22)
the facts, felt life, and the actor
21st century enlightenment
why The Kids Are All Right was not all right
been savin em up: Sunday evening links
INEBRIATION -- A Drunken Parody of Inception
Al Pacino's movie magic
audition notes
Thursday links: here's what's happening
UP-CEPTION!!!
Bill and Ted's Excellent Inception
one more thing about priming
links: New Moon on Monday edition
What do Don DeLillo and Stanislavksy have in common?
I just can't let this one go.
sunday sundries
rehearsal clothes, "priming", and the land of make-believe
incredibly thorough, devastating takedown of Inception
flotsam and jetsam
in defense of the third degree
take it from Travis
El Duende and underlying objective
"Christopher Nolan does not shit solid gold. Like most people, he shits shit. Inception, for example."
►
Jul 2010
(6)
why acting matters
what not to do at an audition
come audition for my show!
rethinking "motivation" with Sebastian Junger and Rachel Maddow
until you've walked a mile in his shoes
like a dog with a bone
►
Jun 2010
(12)
the paradox
because you never know who's watching
David Foster Wallace on "puff words"
William Burroughs shooting Shakespeare (with a gun, not a camera)
what Sheila quoted Minnie as saying about performing
audition wisdom
the production effect
a fantastic talk about the sunday evening blues
true theater
addition to my blogroll: the working actress
necessity is the mother of invention: case in point
the new new (acting) thing?
►
May 2010
(11)
we can all only hope to go out like this
must-see acting TV
life imitates surrealism
the Thomas Jefferson you never knew.
look at me!!!!
you are not alone
sometimes I feel like this when I teach
suction
the full spalding
all hail David Cronenberg
what a star makes possible
►
Apr 2010
(13)
color me ravished
organize your butterflies
listen to the Pinter actor
Neo-Nazism alive and well in LA
going for brokaw
Ryan Gosling's tell
where's the heat?
Zen and the Art of Archery and the art of acting (not to mention the art of teaching acting)
Patsy Rodenburg tells a helluva story about why she does theater
David Lynch's favorite filmmakers, right from the horse's mouth, plus what about that haircut?
acting on the brain
a voice teacher testifies
run don't walk
►
Mar 2010
(11)
what elektra said
san francisco friends and family night pics
beyond bizarre
great new resource: Daily Play blog
unhappy hipsters...good for a chuckle
henry rollins' enormous...work ethic
got something you want to share?
happiness is...
Mother of Inventioner to play Henry V
what Nina says at the end of The Seagull:
actors on Broadway going (not Lady!) Gaga
►
Feb 2010
(34)
The Ghost Writer - just see it
hurting a kid, or the art of lazy (meta)playwriting
Urban Outfitters will carry Shoplifting from American Apparel, so...
Howard Fine's book
bewitching shadow puppets
don't think it can't happen to you
getting under your skin was never like this
ADS: Avatar Derangement Syndrome
heh
and then this turtle slides in, playing the drums...
why we particularize
he's at it again: Leonardo DiCaprio's scrunched-up face acting
something every beginning actor or artist should hear
rainbow roses! for realz, not photoshopped!
ira glass of This American Life on storytelling
ouch
kd laing does Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
Sobering. Just, sobering.
me in the New York Times
more city lights
what a difference a poem makes
more Rifkin: the need to belong
city lights
life imitates art, which imitates Brenda Starr...
Introductory Alexander Technique class- Bay Area
why my neighborhood is Teh Awesome!!!
Quentin Tarantino talks to Rachel Maddow
vulnerability and the actor
art: The Indie Rock Video
Necessity is the mother of...
your body speaks my language
Don't miss these eight stories of Ninja Fail
this doesn't suck: Sweeney Todd rehearsal in Japan
wherein I explain why Crazy Heart is not all that
►
Jan 2010
(21)
what the Elizabethans ate at the theater
knowing when you've got it going on (and when you don't!)
what I'm talkin about
multiple full-body goosebump moments
breakin down breakdown economics: Keynes and Hayek, as a rap
picasso like you've never seen him before
not now, but someday...
DIY creativity
what the cat twitter dragged in
Susan Sontag
in praise of keeping it light
we've all been there
the "Oh sh*t!" circuit and the Delete key
there's been something I wanted to say to you
breaking it down
the whole twitter thing
a new year's message from actorfactor
the war on the little hater inside your head
2009: the motion picture
announcing: Body-Mind-Word
Up in the Air, or, The trouble with "watchable"
►
2009
►
Dec 2009
(33)
your task, should you choose to accept it
Hugh Grant: theater is mostly boring
david byrne's diy rant
you need to call the psychiatric answering machine
the guardian's best theater blogs of 2009
aspiring filmmakers take note
Guest Post: Tension—not too much, not too little
best comment of 2009
teaching empathy: THEY'RE DOIN IT WRONG
how to detect a lie
Chicago is a theater town, and how, part II
announcing: actingbiz
best of this blog for 2009
Frisco Christmas Lights
if hemingway had written Twas the Night Before Christmas
"The Top Ten Years of the Decade"
what happens when French business school students have too much time on their hands
must-read article on the vital role of failure and anomaly in creativity
muppetastic carol of the bells
the true meaning of meh
chekhov
ivana chubbuck and objective
what to do when you are not acting
Chicago is a theater town. And how.
sundry digital ephemera
15 minutes a day
enough to make you wish you were in Austin
from the depths of the Interwebs
(virtual) points of interest
profile in courage
fox in the snow, or, playing to win
"I don't know what to do with my hands."
from the great flux of the cosmic Web
►
Nov 2009
(34)
when it's important to be an adult
the wayward "Messenger"
Bob Dylan-- Must Be Santa
William H. Macy is a written page guy. That's good, but...
Happy Turkey Day, Charlie Brown!
the actor and GTD
human rainstorm
the dance with the director
immersive macbeth -- Sleep No More
muppets do bohemian rhapsody
Wow. Just, wow. No, really!
the actor and the lizard brain
Woody Harrelson on acting
App to Help Actors Learn Lines
the eyes have it
my friend Bill
You might be a Mother of Inventioner if...
superior donuts
Robert DeNiro uses his awesome acting powers to become Elmo and a cabbage
Donnie Darko, Acting Teacher
the actor and the duck-rabbit
for what it's worth: Jude Law's Hamlet
Ken Burns on the Power of History and Creativity
"choices"
dialect coach to the stars
ever wonder about voice-over?
an extraordinary teacher, an extraordinary life
make like the germans
grace under pressure
pictures from Mars
the single biggest mistake that actors make in approaching a scene
november falls flat
I completely agree with this
degree of difficulty
►
Oct 2009
(8)
the balloon boy's parents met where?
acting while carrying half a million dollars
it's not easy being swank
the actors in the hallway
got waznoo?
the conservatory question
Comedy is very serious business
"But you don't rehearse when you get on TeeVee..."
►
Jun 2009
(2)
what a happy actor sounds like
"Everyone works every class": and what's wrong with that
►
May 2009
(8)
Pandora: the acting exercise
Prison Guards Union Squashes Inmates' Musical
some questions
Saving Uta Hagen
shameless self promotion
the ego of the acting teacher
Big Art flop
Tim Rossi lands role in indie film Sedona's Rule
►
Apr 2009
(3)
the Beatles' apprenticeship
we don't know what we know
you never know
►
Mar 2009
(4)
the viewpoints mystique
the trouble with Mamet's practical aesthetics
the trouble with Meisner
Sully Sullenberger tells it like it is
►
Feb 2009
(2)
Building roads with blood on your shirt
You can't make this sh*t up
►
Jan 2009
(2)
throwing away the ladder
something elemental and honest and true and authoritative.
►
2008
►
Dec 2008
(3)
ancient chinese curse
Being Jackson Pollock
Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
►
Nov 2008
(11)
"It Screams"
what is good and why
"will I have to listen to lectures?"
Great LA Alexander teachers
in case you missed it...
why you should really take my class
the change you need
that damned talent question
A Tale of Intertwined Misery
the Hawthorne effect
Tomorrow -- Change.
►
Oct 2008
(8)
thinking about friendship
sacrifice? not so much.
shoot with Roman
The Financial Crisis and Me, or Through the Looking Glass
Howard Korder in New York
video testimonials
excellence
Iraq looks to theater for life
►
Jul 2008
(6)
Jane Austen sucks (blood)
sage advice from Patti Smith
miklos' new short
diane's Fringe show
kristinslist
the poet and the adman
►
Jun 2008
(2)
Jennifer Jajeh's one woman show in NY Fringe
Mother of Invention acting classes in Los Angeles
►
Apr 2008
(3)
my take on sarah marshall
Jeremy Shortlived
Hector in Streetcar Named Desire
►
Mar 2008
(2)
bad voodoo's war
benefit for rent control in San Francisco
►
Feb 2008
(1)
weimar new york
►
Jan 2008
(1)
Wendy Tremont King gets cast in Sean Penn film
►
2007
►
Dec 2007
(1)
TJ on TV
►
Nov 2007
(1)
catch her on the way up
►
Oct 2007
(1)
the new dynamic duo
►
Sep 2007
(8)
couchsurfing dot com
walkin the walk
class relocates, Tuesday night cycle starting in Oct
we got mugwumped (and it felt GOOD!)
Earle Gister does Chekhov in New York
second wednesdays play-reading group kicks off
Jeremy off the hook
Second Wednesdays play reading group
►
Aug 2007
(10)
saturday looks good to me
clothes make the pimp
cassie powell books cal shakes gig
SURPRISE!!!
learning to love you more dot com
Acting Can Save the World!
Acting as a Spiritual Path
actor shoes!!!
the dag lab
altered barbie
►
Jul 2007
(6)
mugwumpin
a cool Bay area theater blog
congrats to jay m
congrats to Leigh
public enemy number one
Jeremy on a roll
►
Jun 2007
(3)
congrats to Dawn!
congrats to Jeremy!
the incomparable Micaya
►
May 2007
(2)
free feldenkrais!!!
congrats to Hector!
►
Apr 2007
(1)
full moon kayaking
►
2006
►
Dec 2006
(2)
back in the saddle 2
sweet land
►
Nov 2006
(2)
smiths karaoke
get in with the Emperor
►
Oct 2006
(4)
Jay gets cast as lead in Shepherd play
Miklos' ongoing success
Mark Wahlberg...
Mother of Inventioners at work
►
Sep 2006
(2)
what I got
the ghost of john casssavetes
►
Aug 2006
(2)
Miklos' film goes international, and another film rec...
the movie everybody wants to have seen
►
Jul 2006
(1)
As You Like It A Lot!!!
►
Jun 2006
(5)
film actors take note, part two
casting call for indie feature
gettin puffy with it
audition announcement
got laughing squid?
►
May 2006
(4)
music lovers take note
Diane hired as AD on film
why we need to act
a glimpse into the inner sanctum
►
Apr 2006
(13)
Diane's latest venture
Cassie Powell gets rave in SF Chronicle
the man with the magic hands
the word from New York
bubble
of interest to film actors
friends with money
Miklos on a roll!
Acting and introspection
"The aspects of things..."
daily kos
get your Shakespeare on
Diane going like gangbusters
►
Mar 2006
(14)
SF Bay area actors' resources
Jennifer on the History Channel
Alexander technique class starting
worth listening to
Josh Lenn on SpikeTV
More props for Miklos!
Neal Bell does it again
Diane acting in short
Miklos' film "The Enfolding" appearing in Sonoma Valley Film Festival
See Tristram Shandy
Anna to play lead in film project
Cassie to appear in SHOVE
Nancy and Josh will be doing Shaw!
Cassie Powell in Love's Labors Lost
Author
Mother of Invention
widget
NetworkedBlogs
Blog:
Mother of Invention Acting School - Los
Topics:
Acting Techniques
,
Yale School Of Drama
,
Los Angeles Acting Blogs
Follow my blog
Andrew Utter
Andrew Utter
bloglisting.net
link
Blogs Directory
Bloghints
Blog Directory | Submit to Directories and Promote your Blogs
blogflux
LS Blogs
LS Blogs
Plazoo
Blogdire