Meet Arnoldo the Puppet

This puppet was born in the midst of Autumn madness on the Oregon Coast!

He’s very extroverted so talk to him whenever you need to!

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Amy’s New Videos

“The Master and the Flower”

In this video, you will see how the Master discovers the essence of Process Work, namely, that everything changes. The concepts of “old” and “young” also lie in the background of this video. if you’re perceptive, you’ll notice that the Master realizes there is no such thing as old or young. He himself is just a process.

“The Gorilla in Me”

See how Professor Applehead discovers his inner gorilla! Professor Applehead and the Gorilla are meant to be goofy and fun. The reason is to make one of the greatest conflicts in the world today easier. That is, the conflict between the rational mind and our more natural ecological mind that knows how to play in the forest. In this video, you may see Professor Applehead, the rationalist, transforming slowly. Enjoy.

“The Dreambody Video” -

To see Amy’s video about the Dreambody, click here.

“Coastal Town.” This video of Amy’s also appears on City of Yachats new website –click here to see the GoYachats website.

More of Amy’s Animation and Puppet Video Clips on YouTube

Click on the screens below to view some individual clips from Amy’s recent animation film, “The Stars at Night” or to see some of her elementary puppets singing and dancing from her earlier musical puppet film “What I Want to Be When I Grow Up!” (If you place your cursor on the screens you will see arrows appear on the left and right. Click on these to take you to the next video clips) Enjoy!

Amy’s New Animation Film, “The Stars at Night”

“The Stars at Night” is Amy’s first attempt to express her music and images in animation.  She enjoyed showing it for the first time to friends at the Process Work Institute in Portland  this May, 2007. See and hear Slinky Mama, Wild Willy, the Maestro and more of her animated figures singing and dancing in person! Watch the video now. You can also see a picture from the performance evening (taken by Max Schupbach).

If you would like to see individual clips of the film see above or view them directly on YouTube.

MUSIC

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“Prayer of Thanks”

“Prayer of Thanks” (1.02 Mb, mp3)
Amy’s note: This is a song from my first CD. Thanks to Heike Spoddeck who accompanied me on violin.

“Heaven is Open”

“Heaven is Open ” (3.3 Mb, mp3)

Amy’s note: Due to requests, I am putting this song back up on our website. It is one of my first songs. It came from a vision that I had as I looked out at the sea. Dawn Menken sings background vocals.

Still spinning with excitement from her animation films, Amy decided to use her cognitive mind! Out came a short paper on animation. She explains the connection between the fundamentals of “Stop-Motion-Animation and some process work concepts. She speaks about calculus and dance, the process of becoming, double signals and more. To see the paper, click below.

Download “Process Work and the Art of Animation” (744 KB PDF file; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

by Amy Mindell

When I was a child I learned to play the guitar and piano, and loved to sing and dance. As a little girl I used to twist and frolic to the rhythms of rock and roll, “Oh shake it baby now, twist and shout!” As I grew up, music and movement became my lifeline; a home I could return to in order to find meaning in an everyday world. Today, whenever I feel confused about what direction to go, curious about the world, or upset by something that has happened, I find myself spontaneously sitting at the piano and letting the music carry me like a magic carpet to lands of greater perspective, to my inner dreams and deepest yearnings, and to my sense of connection with others. More … Link to the full article

by Amy Mindell

Introduction

Am I dead or alive? Awake or asleep? Is this happening now or in the past? Am I a reincarnation from an earlier time or is it a reincarnation of me? Questions like these preoccupied me as a child. They especially haunted me as a teenager when just about everything about the world stopped making any real sense. Why can’t the world just stay still for a moment? Why can’t my experiences be simple and clear?

I tried to put these questions aside and simply do my life. Wasn’t that what everyone else did? People went to work. They drove their cars or took busses. They went to school or to their job, went home, ate, went to sleep, and got up again. So, what was wrong with me? Why all of the extra stuff in my head? Why couldn’t I be an ordinary kid growing up without all these unruly thoughts?

More …… (link to the full article).

Amy created a musical-puppet Video, she called, “What I Want to Be When I Grow Up”, starring Silly Milly and the Vitamins (all of whom are puppets). This 35 minute video is meant to be a lot of fun, awaken the mind and pull on the heartstrings of anyone who has ever dared to dream about their future. There are several “sub-personalities” such as Harry the Hippie and Mr. Groucho Gloom, (all well confined by Silly Milly, Chez Noodle, the cook and others). With the 14 original songs, the video is meant for adults and kids.

We recently discovered that various known Polish Theater and Film directors acknowledge our work as inspiring their’s.  We remember the “Old Theatre’s” most important current collaborator,  Krystian Lupa  According to Wikipedia, “Lupa shatters the traditional action of the performances, stretching their tempos and concentrating on the poetic values of particular situations rather than the plot or conflict. This is a theatre of philosophical and existential reflection in whose centre is situated the modern human being, attempting to find a place in an ever more dehumanised world.”

Phelim McDermott’s Satyagraha; English National Opera

See also the wonderful work of the theater/opera director Phelim McDermott. Click Phelim’s “Satyagraha”.

We have been admiring the wall painting done by Qahira Lynn, (Tel. USA 1 541 547 5120.) See our pictures of the mural she painted on the side wall of the Green Salmon Café in Yachats, Oregon. (Unfortunately our picture could not avoid the end of a truck). Thanks Qahira!