Sofia Helen Eleftheriou

In my quest to become inspired I've found stop motion photography. I fell asleep thinking of it after I saw a great little video on wholly jeanne's blog. I decided to start off with something simple before I ran away with it. I took 182 photos of this little plastic model tonight and put this first little video togehter. I'm kinda excited about the possibilities!

Okay, I took a challenge today.... not sure what has possessed me, apparently I need a little stirrin up. #reverb10 is an annual online event to reflect on the year. They will have daily prompts to write on and that's where I take over. 

I leave for a 10 day trip on the 2nd, then holidays which come with more work than usual. So we'll see how I hold up with the daily challenge. 

I've hit a creative wall lately. I've hit walls and had peaks, always, but this time it seems to run deeper. I've had to back out of things, leave people hanging for things that had very little create guidlines (which is my favorite type), because I drew a blank. Blank over and over. 

The more I work, the less creative I feel. The more I sign up for the less time I have to be in the studio, and maybe that's just why I'm so busy. On top of all of the stressers in my life right now, the fact that being alone in the studio sounds stressful to me makes it easier to avoid.

So, i'll write. Writing has pulled me out of many holes, creative and emotional. And though it's literally been years since I've written, the urge to pick up a pen (or keyboard) has overwhelmed me while I can't seem to sculpt or draw. 

My friend, Pilates teacher, and co-circus performer recently came to a few of us proposing that we put a little stilt act together for an upcoming show. Missing the circus and our summer of creative expression and being in amazing shape we all agreed! Then came the details, how would we choreograph a piece that fit with the show's theme, shadows? What are we called, we need costumes... oh and of course stilts! Our small Albuquerque stilt troupe would be called "present Company" which ended up suiting us really well considering that between the two performances and throughout the whole process our group fluctuated between 3-5 people. 

Building the stilts ended up taking up most of the time we thought we'd be coming up with choreography and practicing.