Material query, voices and other shite
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burntcopperFor all the costuming lot - got a query.
Doing a Greek dress - white material. Thing is, I know it would've been wool previously, but I want to wear this during summer as a normal dress as well, not just for a photoshoot. Is there any material you lot know of that I could use without having to line it that'll also drape correctly that's not bloody heavy?
Sewing is presumed to be minimal considering the design is classical greek unless I sew the strapping in place.
Tattoo whinging update : still sore. Back reminding me that it dislikes heavy moisturiser (or any moisturiser at all when it's not summer) by coming out in spots. Going to be so glad when it gets to the end of the second week and I don't have to moisturise. Not to mention, vitamin E cream is seriously, seriously heavy - much heavier than, say, Nivea, which is the heaviest I've ever used before.
Listening to highly illegal recorded in lap mp3 of JB's turn in Phantom as Raoul. Christine's voice is grating something chronic - keeps going into this weird squeak on the higher notes, which are, er, kind of *important* for the Christine role. Lovely on the mid-tones, though. And my god, JB's voice sounds so odd during the 'spoken' sequences - it's like he's been told to enunciate in pre-Regency affected tones (think Scarlet Pimpernel) in anything that's not a main song. I know it was 1992, but his voice sounds fairly normal (though a little younger) during the rest of it. Weird. Think I need to track down any other instances of English accent spoken when he's not being completely camp, since the majority of his roles have been American aside from Red, Red Rose, and his singing voice is a different beast altogether (something that always amuses me about the human voicebox - make it go controlled and tonal and it can suddenly sound like it's a different person altogether).
Have found tolerance of Lloyd Webber's 80s works is slipping. Too, I dunno, poppy and shallow/operatic? May start referring to the 80s as his melodramatic teenage years. Falling ridiculously in adoration for Sunset Boulevard and Evita though.
Also, work wtf : Just had an author who says she doesn't get on with the numbering system for reference citation and has problems with it as her excuse for screwing up the references. ...This would be the standard way to cite references that's been in place in the literary world for over a hundred years, the way articles and books *normally* cite references, that ensures you don't clutter the main text by putting a number in the text that you look up in the bibliography at the end? The system children learn to navigate by? Not to mention this author has published a hell of a lot of papers in this specific field. Internet Jesus only knows how much whoever edits the journals had to do on their previous submissions.
Addendum : need to kill other authors who don't read the journals they submit to and notice that we only have two fonts in use - bogstandard verdana/helvetica/arial with the bold/italic/subscript variations and courier new (typewriter/monospace text look) for gene sequences and computer code. Especially authors who have already *used* courier new in their manuscript for afore-mentioned computer code. :thwacks them round the head:
Doing a Greek dress - white material. Thing is, I know it would've been wool previously, but I want to wear this during summer as a normal dress as well, not just for a photoshoot. Is there any material you lot know of that I could use without having to line it that'll also drape correctly that's not bloody heavy?
Sewing is presumed to be minimal considering the design is classical greek unless I sew the strapping in place.
Tattoo whinging update : still sore. Back reminding me that it dislikes heavy moisturiser (or any moisturiser at all when it's not summer) by coming out in spots. Going to be so glad when it gets to the end of the second week and I don't have to moisturise. Not to mention, vitamin E cream is seriously, seriously heavy - much heavier than, say, Nivea, which is the heaviest I've ever used before.
Listening to highly illegal recorded in lap mp3 of JB's turn in Phantom as Raoul. Christine's voice is grating something chronic - keeps going into this weird squeak on the higher notes, which are, er, kind of *important* for the Christine role. Lovely on the mid-tones, though. And my god, JB's voice sounds so odd during the 'spoken' sequences - it's like he's been told to enunciate in pre-Regency affected tones (think Scarlet Pimpernel) in anything that's not a main song. I know it was 1992, but his voice sounds fairly normal (though a little younger) during the rest of it. Weird. Think I need to track down any other instances of English accent spoken when he's not being completely camp, since the majority of his roles have been American aside from Red, Red Rose, and his singing voice is a different beast altogether (something that always amuses me about the human voicebox - make it go controlled and tonal and it can suddenly sound like it's a different person altogether).
Have found tolerance of Lloyd Webber's 80s works is slipping. Too, I dunno, poppy and shallow/operatic? May start referring to the 80s as his melodramatic teenage years. Falling ridiculously in adoration for Sunset Boulevard and Evita though.
Also, work wtf : Just had an author who says she doesn't get on with the numbering system for reference citation and has problems with it as her excuse for screwing up the references. ...This would be the standard way to cite references that's been in place in the literary world for over a hundred years, the way articles and books *normally* cite references, that ensures you don't clutter the main text by putting a number in the text that you look up in the bibliography at the end? The system children learn to navigate by? Not to mention this author has published a hell of a lot of papers in this specific field. Internet Jesus only knows how much whoever edits the journals had to do on their previous submissions.
Addendum : need to kill other authors who don't read the journals they submit to and notice that we only have two fonts in use - bogstandard verdana/helvetica/arial with the bold/italic/subscript variations and courier new (typewriter/monospace text look) for gene sequences and computer code. Especially authors who have already *used* courier new in their manuscript for afore-mentioned computer code. :thwacks them round the head:
