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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
4:00 pm	Check this out: The Legend of Zelda: A Pain in my Ass This is an announcement for an Internet video by SORP Films. It was written and spearheaded by Zachary Byron Helm (pyrotech_c3h8), a friend of mine. I put in a lot of time on it also, as co-director, director of photography, and editor. If you like it, tell a friend. [X-posted from pyrotech_c3h8] More epic than watching a bunch of digital midgets get lost on a nature hike in Lord of the Rings... Considerably less gay than Tom Cruise in Legend... It's... Click the Youtube links below to watch...note, this is a two part movie...if you like what you see here and want to help us out then please post this video three other places, which will help us spread the word about our videos and will be greatly appreciated! PART I PART II (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
3:36 pm	Open Invitation: "New Decade Plays" at Curious Theatre I'd like to invite everyone to the "New Decade Plays" at Curious Theatre. Monday March 26th at 7:00pm Curious Theatre Company http://www.curioustheatre.org/ 1080 Acoma St. Denver, CO 80204 It is a free one-night-only performance in conjunction with Curious's main-stage production of A House With No Walls. A ten-minute play I wrote, titled Epiphany, will be performed along with as nine other short plays about race from 1900-1999 by fine young playwrights from around Denver and around the country. This performance is part of the Curious New Voices program, a program of Curious Theater designed to support and foster the development of the next generation of American playwrights. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
10:04 am	New Webpage I have created an actual webpage, so my domain won't point at this blog anymore. So far, it's a design (based on my stationary), and one page only, with some links. My website is at: http://www.aubreyellenshomo.com/ (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 30th, 2006
4:54 pm	Alfred E. Newman's True Identity A funny pic I got in an email. I don't know who created it. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
6:00 pm	TG Tapestry #110 it out At last, nearly a year after their acceptance of my article, "The Psychotic SOC," TG Tapestry #110 is out. http://www.ifge.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=110 IN THIS ISSUE OF THE TAPESTRY   ARTICLES Quest 2005 - Tapestry interviws the fabulous Sabel Simone. Lunch Counters & Mosaics The Comon Threads - Dottie Berry - Two women and a poodle Transgender Activism at City Collage of San Francisco - Ms. Bob Davis - Students educate the educators. The Psychotic SOC - Aubrey Ellen Shomo - Who gets harmed? The Last Time I Dropped Acid - Dallas Denny ( Read on... ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
10:50 am	I am 22 today! Yay! It's a bit odd. I just finished the last year of my life where I get a new privlidge of adulthood. (Though, drinking isn't really all that wonderful of a privlidge - and it's usefulness is debatable.) I am now 22. Out of the last of the grey areas of youth and full speed into an adulthood I've already long embraced. Looking back, I'm quite okay with what I've pulled off so far, and where I'm going. A toast to the future! (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 29th, 2006
6:38 pm	Sunday -- Free Staged Readings Hello Everyone! I know it's late notice, but I figured I'd invite you to the last night of the Curious New Voices 2006 Festival. Sunday July 30th. 7pm. Curious Theatre. It's FREE! It features staged readings by professional actors and driectors of short works by young playwrights. Sunday the 30th of July will be the last night of the three night festival. It will feature the first 30 minutes of my 2-act play (that I'm working on) Choice and Chemistry, as well as work by Kevin Kline and Hannah Montgomery. It starts at 7pm. Doors will be open at 6:30. My play is after the intermission. Location: Curious Theatre Company 1080 Acoma Denver, CO 80211 If you want to hear the voices of the next generation of American Theatre, or just want something to do for a sunday evening, please come to the show. ------------------------------------- Denver, CO - July 28th, 29th and 30th at 7pm Curious Theatre Company presents staged readings from the third annual Curious New Voices: the Donald B. Vander Heyden Young Playwright's Project (1080 Acoma, Denver). As part of Curious' Staged Reading Festival, this free 3 night event highlights the works of young writers with some of Denver's most esteemed actors and directors. 4-5 short plays will be produced each evening. No reservations are required. The production is the culmination of a 3 week summer intensive called Curious New Voices (CNV). 15-21 year old writers are guided through the creative process by experienced instructors and nationally renowned playwrights to produce entirely original plays. These works are then produced for the public by professional actors and directors. This year's visiting playwrights are Steven Sapp, (co-creator of Slanguage and The War Anthology) Joan Holden (Paris on the Platte, Nickel and Dimed) and Quiara Hudes (Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue). CNV's team of instructors includes Director Dee Covington, Bonnie Metzgar, (Curious' Associate Artistic Director and former Associate Producer of NYC's Public Theatre) and Laura Tesman (Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs). Supplemented throughout the year with bi-monthly meetings called "Writer's Church," Covington continues honing workshop alumni skills while overseeing the writing of new plays inspired by a Curious main stage production. This season, participants will conceive scripts mirroring the themes of Rob Handel's Aphrodisiac (Season 9, January13-February 24, 2007). Many of this year's young writers are Colorado residents. Denver-area participants include Mitch Colley, Mario Louis Gonzales, Noah Hunt, Kevin Kline, Hannah Montgomery, Bobby Sebik, Aubrey Ellen Shomo, and Annie Woodward. The program continues to build a national reputation bringing writers from as far away as the East Coast including Joey M. Boren (Atlanta, GA) and Caitlin Tomlinson (Chicago, IL). Full scholarships are available through the Olsen Vander Heyden Foundation and matching donations by individuals. Curious New Voices students have the unique opportunity to have direct access to professional actors and directors who work with them in staging their short new plays. Directors Brenda Cook, donnie l. betts, Christopher Leo, Billie McBride and Jennifer Orell will collaborate with actors Teresa Adams, Jessica Austgen, Ed Cord, Jason Henning, Brian Hutchinson, Ghandia Johnson, Jamie Lujan, Trina Magness, Jennifer Mabry, Jeremy Make, Leigh Miller, Patrick Miranda, Jude Morgan, Jessica Posner, Theresa Reid, Simone St. John, Karen Slack, Danielle Slavick, Peter Trinh, Todd Webster and Royce Wood. The professional staging of these young writers' works is invaluable to their artistic growth. Mario Louis Gonzales, a 20 year old in his 2nd season of the program remarks, "The ultimate thing for a writer in any genre is to have their words read, let alone manifested on the stage by professional directors and actors.I can no longer merely jot poetry in a dead notebook because Curious New Voices has displayed how my text lives inside of breathing bodies." Curious Theatre Company 1080 Acoma Denver, CO 80211 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
5:20 pm	The Hippocratic Oath -- Now available under a creative commons license. The Hippocratic Oath is now available for redistribution. Feel free to download and share. I am releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. (see below) That means you can download and share the film free for noncommercial use, so long as you credit me. You can also make derivative works, so long as they credit me, are also noncommercial, and also freely distributed. If you want to use the film for any commerical purpose, feel free to write me and ask permission. You can write me at aubrey@psychiatricharm.com. Peace, Aubrey Stremaing links: Main MSN Video Link: http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=bd787c71-190c-4c79-be26-62d20d23bf4d&f=&fg=copy Google Video Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7970936378356767607 YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wmd3Ehsfa4 Download links: RealMedia (5M): http://www.aubreyellenshomo.net/video/hippocraticoath.rm Quicktime (35M): http://www.aubreyellenshomo.net/video/hippocraticoath.mov Windows Media low-resolution (5M): http://www.aubreyellenshomo.net/video/hippocraticoath.wmv Source links: High Resoultion Raw DV Encoded Downloads. (note: 217MB for 60 seconds of video) http://www.aubreyellenshomo.net/video/hippocraticoath.avi http://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/394.shtml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Copyright © Aubrey Ellen Shomo, 2006. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
5:52 pm	Jesus: I will survive. http://www.badmutsen.nl/archives/2006/06/jesus_christ_th.php#more JESUS CHRIST - THE MUSICAL The page is in what I think is dutch, but the video is in english - and it's great. It's Jesus singing "I will Survive," and walkiing around LA in a loincloth. Don't miss the end. It's some simple, bad taste, good humor. (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
10:09 pm	I am a semi-finalist in the Film Your Issue competition. A film I produced, titled "The Hippocratic Oath," has been selected as a semi-finalist in the national Film Your Issue competition. This is a very prestigious competition, and I am grateful to have been chosen as one of the 35 semi-finalists from more than 1,000 submissions from across the country. The winners will now be chosen based, in part, on a public vote. To see my film, go to: http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=bd787c71-190c-4c79-be26-62d20d23bf4d&f=&fg=copy In an Internet Explorer web browser. If you are so moved, please vote for my film by going to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12721177 Select "The Hippocratic Oath," by Aubrey Ellen Shomo from the list and click the vote button at the bottom of the page. About the Film Your Issue competition: The Film Your Issue competition is a national contest for 18 to 26 year old filmmakers throughout the United States. It is the brainchild of HeathCliff Rothman. More than 1,000 30-to-60 second issue films were submitted, resulting in 35 semi-finalists. Six winners will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival, on MTVu, and at the Maui Film Festival. One of the six will be given a paid, eight-week internship at The Walt Disney Company. The winners will be selected from the 35 semi-finalists in part by a public vote, and in part by a VIP jury including Walter Cronkite, Jonathan Alter, George Clooney, Brian Williams, and others. For more information, see: http://www.filmyourissue.com About my Film: My film, "The Hippocratic Oath," is a film about child abuse in modern psychiatric institutions. It speaks of this through an anonymous child who was forced to bathe in a shower contaminated with human feces. The message is simple. Abuses are still happening. I want to know why. The title is based on the oath taken by doctors to "First, do no harm." More information on the topic is available through my film's official contest website at: http://spaces.msn.com/aubreyellenshomo/ Current Mood: So happy I could be manic. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
8:28 pm	Quotes on Madness “I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?” -- William Saroyan Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. Part One: Life XI MUCH madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain. “It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.” -- Vincent van Gogh (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
11:43 pm	Microsoft Word Enters the World of Literary Criticism So, I was working on something, and in it I quoted Emily Dickinson’s famous poem about madness. Microsoft Word, ever helpful, took it upon itself to underline some 'grammar problems' in the poem. Noticing this, and hoping for some entertainment, I decided to find out what it had to say. Check this out: Consider Revising. I just got a kick out of that, so I had to post it. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
1:57 pm	Awesome Quote by Peter Ustinov "Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information." - Peter Ustinov (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
10:18 am	Come to Curious Theatre on Monday April 17th I'd like to invite you to a one-night-only event at Curious Theatre.  It's a staging of the Curious New Voices War Anthology project, NEW VOICES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD. It's Monday, April 17th, at 7:00pm at Curious Theatre.  There is a $5 suggested donation. See below for a description of my piece.  See below that for more details on Curious's location and the evening as a whole. This event will include a piece written by me, "Hope that Fits in a Bikini," about a brother and sister who grew up in the Marshall Islands during America's nuclear testing there. It is a fictional story about a kids from real displaced people that is not so far removed in time or place. The Marshallese are a people moved by the United States after nuclear testing on their islands in the 1950's. Many of that displaced generation from the Marshall islands are still alive today. See the human face of war, progress, and the atom as the siblings return to the island fifty years later to try to touch that which they've lost one last time. What will become of them in the process? The evening will also include eleven other plays written by many great young playwrights from across the country, two of which were produced during the Colorado Quickies. Inspired by this image: Children on Kili Island, 2001. Photo © Jack Niedenthal.  NEW VOICES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD:       The Curious New Voices WAR ANTHOLOGY project performance See a full-production anthology of twelve 10-minute plays written by young, new playwrights as a parallel to Curious's world premier main-stage production of War Anthology. This is a one-night-only event - not a reading - on the set of War Anthology. Come see how twelve Generation Y playwrights see America's history at war. ONE NIGHT ONLY: Monday, April 17th at 7pm. $5 suggested donation The theater is located at 1080 Acoma St. Denver, CO 80204 The closest main cross streets are 11th and Broadway.   (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 20th, 2006
8:31 pm	Press for Comfluent This is the front page of the business section, page 1B, in today's Rocky Mountain News (March 20th, 2006). That's Alf Gardner, the owner of Comfluent, in the picture. I got quoted in the article, in one tiny place. Oh well, you can't have all of the press. I just wish people would forget about the McDonald's thing, though. The web version of the story. PDF of the web based story. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
5:03 pm	Coder or Killer? I found this through one of the RSS feeds I'm on. It's scary. It presents you a series of pictures, and asks you to guess whether the person invented a programming language, or was a serial killer. I got 4 out of 10 right, so it advised me to avoid seeking a job in law enforcement or IT recruiting. http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/ (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
6:32 pm	Yesterday's Dilbert: The External Antidepressant Date: 2006-03-14 Comic: Dilbert Author: Scott Adams Source: http://www.dilbert.com (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
10:50 pm	Physically Accessing Your Apartment with Skype (My article in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly) When it rains, it pours. And it's raining ink. My article "Physically Accessing Your Apartment with Skype" is on page 23 of this issue (Volume 22, Number 4). (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
5:21 pm	This is spectacular. The garfield random comic generator. example: It's at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/natetrue/gar.html I found it by way of portal of evil. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
3:53 pm	Response to my critics I have heard quite a bit of controversy about my CCW permit course and my permit. The allegations: I do not have a CCW permit. I violated state and/or federal law in handling a weapon, or in applying for a permit, or that I must have lied on my application form. I am a psycho. My responses: Any questions? The form reads, "Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective (which includes having been adjudicated incompetent to manage your own affairs) or have you ever been committed to a mental institution?" My article reads "Ever been committed? Snicker. Technically, no. Not by a court." The word adjudicated is central here. I have not been so adjudicated. As for a commitment, my parents signed me in voluntarily. I may have been locked in against my will, but the law says I was a voluntary patient. As such, I answered question 9 no. Should my past be a policy issue? Probably. Did I lie? No. I didn't have to. That's the point. This threatened a lot of people. There were a lot of conservative blog comments about it. If it were madness, why, oh why, the need to debunk it? Should I be allowed to own a firearm now? Yes, I believe so. I have a completely clean bill of mental health. That said, I probably should have had to prove it. Nothing, under the law, separates me from anyone else with my past who might - very understandably - not be the sort of person the General Assembly of the State of Colorado wants to see armed. Also, I make no attempt to hide my history. I mentioned it in the article, and it's all a google search away. It was when I got my permit, too. So, to the detractors that claim I am not entitled to own a firearm, or carry one concealed. I am. To those who claim I lied. I did not. My point is about how easy it is to get a permit, and about how stereotypical my instructors were. (5 Comments |Comment on this)