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Becoming an Adult

Hello world, it's Kodi here, and something really interesting happened to me today. I'm not totally sure what prompted it--it could have been any number of things, but today was the day that I realized both that 1). I have become and adult and 2). I need to start acting like an adult. It is a realization that is both terrifying and exhilarating. Earlier today I was off to sign the lease for the first ever apartment that I would live in and as these things tend to go, it didn't all go exactly as I had hoped and some new information was brought to light that messed up some of my plans for the summer. All I really wanted in that moment was for an adult to swoop in, save the day, and make everything better. Which was when I realized that no knight in shining armor was coming to pull me up onto their horse. Almost immediately after that I realized I am an adult, I'm the one who has to figure this out. But the upside to that is, I have the ability to sort it out. If I stop...

Honesty With Yourself

Hello world, it's Kodi here to tell you about something that has been on my mind almost constantly since it was brought up in one of my classes. I've always found the profession of acting fascinating, and there are so many different theories and methods that are believed to lead to the best acting. But something that is underlying in almost all of them is being incredibly grounded in who the actor is as a person before they begin to embody the personality of a character. An actor's job, in the most simple definition, is to bring truth to a lie. And the only way that an actor can acheive that successfully is to use truths from their own life to find the honest and raw moments of truthful emotion within the tale being told. One of my professors has been reminding us continually from day one that the only way to truly succeed in this career is to have complete honesty with yourself. Now, this is much much harder said than done, as our society and it's rules have influenc...