New Beautiful Creatures facebook fan page

We have finally launched our new facebook fan page for Beautiful Creatures. Its a work in progress... and  we promise to post all sorts of interesting things about the inner workings of Beautiful Creatures. 
Please join us at the following link http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beautiful-Creatures/291270061158?ref=ts

Great Expectations on ETV

I spent the morning as a guest on the parenting program Great Expectations at ETV with my daughter Sophie. The program was about creativity in children and it will air on the 26th of April @ 11:30. Sophie showed off her art, and I was the proud parent. We discussed a couple of issues relating to nurturing creativity in early childhood. One of the other guests Nicky Bush, co-author of 'Future proof your children' made some really interesting observations about how when our children grow up, up to 60% of the jobs that they may do have yet to be 'invented' She added that the best way to prepare your children for the future is to nurture their creatvie ability to that they will be able to adapt to our rapidly world. The conclusion of all this was that we should of course encourage our children and give them all the the support that they need to enhance their natural talent. This might not be art, music or dance, but by allowing them to be creative and explore both left and right brain activity, they will be better equipped as adults to solve problems in a creative way. So you will see that I have made todays entry a little more creative than usual with a couple of splashes of colour, just to prove that I was listening!


Al

TV series and progress on our new book

We've been keeping busy at Beautiful Creatures working on our TV series bible and preparation for the stage show. We are getting to know all our characters a bit better and have discovered that Lorenzo the Luckies Lizard is actually a bit of a gossip and that Lucas loves to do vocal warm-ups and has aspirations of singing grandeur. Harry the Hadeda fancies himself as a bit of an ornithologist and loves to compare himself the the great Ibis's of ancient Egypt.


Meanwhile our illustrator Sandy Lightly has done some fantastic layouts for our next book. 'Imvubu the Hippo' due out in June to co-incide with the stage show at Montecasino. We are looking forward to seeing the colour version once she has applied her magic paint brush. So there is lots to keep us busy.

Costumes, set, script

Met today with Hazel and the crew to chat about costumes, and the logistics of carrying around a tall giraffe head on top of ones own. So we may have to go a slightly different route. 

Will soon be casting the show and are aiming for about 14 characters. including Imvubu the happiest Hippo (of course) Mafutha the Elephant, Morris the Monkey, Roddy the Rhino, not to mention Harry the hungry Hadeda, Talullah the tortoise and a couple of Zebra. Follow the process on these links:

Website www.beautifulcreatures.co.za

Itunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/alan-glass/id19554   

Twitter http://twitter.com/beauticreatures

Blog Blog, twitter twiiter

Its Tuesday in the land of the Beautiful Creatures, and we have our first draft of the script in hand, thanks to Gina and Craig. Excellent, now all we need are costumes, sets, actors, musicians, PR etc. Looking forward to the casting session in a couple of weeks. We'll post all that info on facebook, twitter etc as well. 


Spent some time today tweaking the poster with the help of  Kirsten at Apula, so we are getting there. 


Paul and I popped into our illustrator Sandy Lightly's studio to take a look at the draft drawing of our next book. (book # 2 'Imvubu the Hippo') It looks great so far and Sandy will start painting, cos when it comes to book we do it the old fashioned way... real illustrations with lots of acrylic paint on board.


Can't wait to get going with all this!


Al

Monday morning at the coffee shop

Monday morning at the coffee shop, before heading off for a power week at Beautiful Creatures. Today we will be taking a look at the draft script for the stage show, then onto a meeting with our illustrator Sandy Lightly to take a look at the first renditions of our second book ' Imvubu the Hippo'. Lots of meeting and plans around our stage show, costumes, set,  TV show development etc. Joburg is just starting to show the first signs of Autumn, with only about 80 something days before the world cup kick off, and of course the kick off of our Beautiful Creatures stage show at Montecasino's Teatro. 

Playing with our social networking toys

Ok, so we've been really busy this week playing with our social networking toys. Here is the itunes link to Beautiful Creatures. http://bit.ly/9E1iuD
This one points to the USA site, so if you are somewhere else you may have to change territory, or just search Beautiful Creatures - Ed Jordan and Alan Glass. (If you just say Beautiful creatures it takes you to a heavy metal band.. thats not us!)

Paul has been tweeting furiously all week to let everyone know that we are now available in lots of territories (Not Oz yet, coming soon!) So if you would like to follow us on twitter the link is http://twitter.com/beauticreatures

So there is something for everyone, but if that's all a bit much to digest simply go to our website www.beautifulcreatures.co.za 

Beautiful Creatures on Great Expectations on ETV. Monday 26 April 2010 at 11h30

Beautiful Creatures will be on Great Expectations on ETV  taking about creativity in children. The show will be broadcast on Monday 26 April 2010 at 11h30.  

Paul is all a twitter

Paul has discovered twitter. He tweets all day and he tweets all night. I'm sure any day now he is going to grow wings, maybe like a Hadeda! Between that and our local  Italian sandwich shop Super Sconto, we are not sure which he prefers. Meanwhile, Ed's been awol, he's busy doing the score for Spud The Movie! It stars, among others the legendary John Cleese. Apparently Ed has to make him sing! (How about I'm a lumberjack? or Always look on the bright side of life?) Meanwhile things are all chipper in the land of Beautiful Creatures and plans for the stage show are making progress. Today we briefed our creative agency about the poster, chatted to 'Toast' (Tony Feldman - Showtime Management, and son of Hazel) about a few things before he dashes of to London for a few days, and of course did a bit more tweeting. Now time for some well earned rest. 

Al

Blogging can be fun

Apparently blogging can be fun.

Let’s see………………. 

Beautiful Creatures Blog post # 1

Well here goes the first blog post from the Beautiful Creatures team. At this point I'm still talking to myself, but hopefully that will soon change. On this blog, you will get to share our ideas, thoughts and dreams for Beautiful Creatures. The three of us, Paul, Ed and  I will explore the great adventure that Beautiful Creatures has become. We're about 5 years old now, have 7 children's music albums and our first book. We have a stage show in development with Hazel and Tony Feldman, and are in the process of developing a TV series. We've had fantastic support from children and their parents who have given us such positive feedback with regard to our music and favourite characters.So we invite you to continue the journey with us, and welcome your thoughts.

Beautiful Creatures is inspired by our children, and we will continue to strive to create music, books and theater that will in-turn inspire all children.

Alan Glass

www.beautifulcreatures.co.za