This is our eighth Mosaic Moments Design Team challenge. We were called to draw inspiration from the pop culture of the year/decade we were born. I briefly puzzled over our pop culture of the year/decade
in which we were born topic since I came on the scene close to the last quarter
of the decade. I’m a tail-end baby boomer who was a child of the 50s, a teen of
the 60s, a collegian in the late 60s and early 70s, a veteran at the tail end
of the Vietnam not-a-war, a bicentennial bride, and the list goes on. So I said
to myself, “Self, what fits here?” Self responded, “Duh, think!” So I thought until
this idea hit me like a ton of bricks in
a snowstorm.
Among my many creative outlets, I write audio plays that
we perform in the prison environment. I turned to audio theatre around 2004 out
of desperation for inexpensive dramatic programs that required little time and
less money to develop. I found the National Audio Theatre Festivals and
actively participated in their annual conventions. In 2008 or 2009, one of my ½-hour
scripts was selected for production. These photos are of that event in that
year. What better inspiration from the 1940s is there than continuing the “old
time radio” tradition today?
I explained the
inspiration in my journaling: “I
was born in 1949; the end of the decade. These were the years that captured the
nation’s imagination through radio drama only to be replaced by television
during the 50s. This is when radio plays segued into television shows until the
art form almost died, except for the efforts of a few diehards. Fast forward to
2013 and the development audio theatre as it is known today. During my
life-journey, I managed to merge my passion for story into audio plays that we
perform in prisons and in local churches. My journey led me to join the
National Audio Theatre Festival where one of my 1/2 hour audio plays titled
“Where Eagles Fly” was captured on the air in 2009 at their annual convention
in West Plains, Missouri. Many faculty and staff members are professional
engineers, vocal artists, musicians and college professors. Participating in
this event which breathes life into the story through sound effects, music and
vocal acting into a cohesive story was pure joy.”
I used
black grid paper for my background and a downloaded alphabet for my titling. I
also had one sheet of scrapbook paper that featured icons of the decade. I used
that as a unifying element. On Sunday, April 21, I returned
from a wholesalers convention which was located 22 miles southwest of Boston.
While there, I attended a Graphic 45 calendar class. Some of the stickers from
the collection we used fit in nicely and added some vintage elements to my
layout.
I also used a Mosiac Moments circle
frame to accent the musical aspect of audio theatre. I topped it what a Graphic 45 “Place in Time”
tab for additional accent.
This is a fun project that
almost put itself together without me. I had a lot of fun revisiting these
memories.
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