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- OpenStack: a vision for the future -

Monty Taylor

http://inaugust.com/talks/a-vision-for-the-future.html

twitter: @e_monty

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Stanislavski

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Who am I?

Technical Committee

Foundation Board of Directors

Developer Infrastructure Core Team

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Who am I?

Undergrad Degree in Theatre Directing

Grad School at CalArts for Lighting Design

Member of the Satori Group

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Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky

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Константи́н Серге́евич Станисла́вский

Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre

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"The task of our generation is to liberate art from outmoded tradition, from tired cliché and to give greater freedom to imagination and creative ability."

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Psychological Realism

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Anton Chekhov

The Seagull (1898)

Uncle Vanya (1899)

The Three Sisters (1901)

The Cherry Orchard (1904)

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Moscow Art Theatre

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Founded in 1897

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popular seat prices

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ensemble ethos

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realistic theatre

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Verisimilitude

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the appearance of being true or real

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Psychology, Physiology and Neurology

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First meeting of International Congress of Psychology - Paris, 1889

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Pavlov - Institute of Experimenal Medicine, St. Petersburg, 1891

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(the dogs were in 1901)

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Freud - Interpretation of Dreams 1899

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Stanislavski's system

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psychophisology

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interrelation between mind and body

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Physical Actions and Internal Life are linked

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Most modern theatre, tv and film actors

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Key ideas

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"What if" (what if I were in the same situtaion as my character)

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Motivation (why)

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Objectives (what do I want)

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Chekhov and Psychological action

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Emotional Memory

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Sense Memory

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Inside out

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like using a programming framework

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Express the key points - let the framework handle the details

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Manipulate the emotional life - the body will handle a lot of the details

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An Actor Prepares

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For further reading

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Lee Strasberg

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Moscow Art Theatre visited the US in 1923

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Strasberg == Mind Blown

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Dropped out of school and went to study with the Russians

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The Group Theatre

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New York - 1931

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Founded by Lee Strassberg, Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford

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Not the same as the Group Theatre in London

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Believed in Leaderless Operation and Collaborative Work

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Sound familiar?

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The Method

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Strasberg took Stanislavski's system and made a training system

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You've probably heard of it

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Marlon Brando, Heath Ledger, Philip Seymor Hoffman, Robert DeNiro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Christian Bale, Al Pacino

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Big differences from Stanislavski

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Emotional Memory becomes Affective Memory

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Substitution - What would make me, the actor, behave in the way the character does

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So I was at this bar ...

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Clear danger, right?

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Notice that Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman were in the list

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Everyone other than Strasberg walked away from pure-emotional immersion

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Stanford Meisner

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Split from Strasberg - thought emotional memory caused actors to focus on themselves and not the character

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Concentration on the parter instead

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live truthfully under imaginary circumstances

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Stella Adler

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Broke with Strasberg after studying with Stanislavski

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Emotion should come from imagination based on given circumstance

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Uta Hagen

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Another split

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Basic Object Exercises

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Start by doing mundane things in front of people

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What the heck does this have to do with OpenStack?

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All of these people shared a purpose

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To create truth in realistic acting

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All of these people both shared approaches and diverged substantially

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"What would I do if I were in this circumstance"

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"What would motivate me, the actor, to behave in the way the character does?"

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Tadashi Suzuki

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The Feet

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connection to the ground

outside in

Truth from Physicality, not from Psychological realism

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The Trojan Women

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Drew from Noh, Kabuki and Shingeki tranditions

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Produce a thing that is "true" to a modern Japanese sensibility

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Training arose from the need to train replacement actors for the show

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SITI Company

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Suzuki collaborated with Anne Bogart

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Added Anne Bogart's Viewpoints to Suzuki's techniques

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P3

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Robyn Hunt and Steve Pearson studied for 12 year in Japan with Suzuki

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Moved back to US to teach the techniques

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Added Shogo Ohta's slow-tempo techniques

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Frank

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Here in Brisbane

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Studied with Suzuki - Added Australian content and form

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Exercies to Nick Cave instead of Japanese Flute

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The training is a tool

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An actor might study all of them

Each technique can be useful for different things

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Shakespeare

Each of these directors has applied their techniques to Shakespeare

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They're all useful tools for different hings

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Why all this talk about acting techniques?

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Four takeaways from the actors

Know what problem they're trying to solve

Develop techniques to solve the problem

Don't confuse technique with results

Be willing to adapt based on new data

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The problem

Are we chasing psycological realism?

Are we chasing physical truth?

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The problem for us

Are we making a toolkit for people to use to build clouds?

Are we making a cloud that can be deployed in multiple places?

Are we providing computers?

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What I want

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OpenStack should provide computers and networks that work

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OpenStack should not chase 12-factor apps

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OpenStack should provide a happy home for app frameworks

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OpenStack should, by default, give me a directly routable IP

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Thank you!

http://inaugust.com/talks/a-vision-for-the-future.html

twitter: @e_monty

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