Many aspects of a personality combine to create a single self. I've been contemplating this in relation to basketball-playing Mike, who is loud, often aggressive and mm, rehearsal director Mike who is a listener, collaborative and not ever yelling at anyone that I can recall. Ah and they both feel like me, and I like both those people, but which one is the real me? I think the both are.

This is Michael Wheeler and this is Thought #3.

My students at Queen's University are beginning a process of creating scenes through CdnStudio. They have the benefit of actually rehearsing those scenes in person with each other first, before they start creating across distance.

I'm curious to see how this changes the creative process in comparison to something like our production of The Revolutions which used the technology to create a work where artists from a cross the country collaborated with each other without ever being in the same space.

Seems like being able to meet each other in the same space will change things.

This Michael Wheeler and this is Thought #2.

I've been thinking today about Progress Lab in Vancouver and how it is home to both Marcus Youssef, who is the most recent winner of the Siminovitch Prize and also The Electric Company and Kim Collier, also a winner of The Siminovitch Prize.

And how that space was created by a bunch of artists who came together and figured out how to pool their resources to give them the infrastructure they needed to explore their craft, before anyone had won any Siminovitch Prizes. And ah, it just reminds me that working together you can achieve a lot of things.

This is Michael Wheeler and this is Thought #1.

I've been thinking a lot about branded content lately, and how newspapers and magazines now offer theatres the opportunity to purchase the coverage they used to receive for free from journalists and their publications.

And that the model, the business model that supports the media, is suffering is so much that now you buy what used to be, omm, news. And that that is bad for art, because then news, in the art world, is about the people, who can pay for it.

Currently, I am at the top of Cape Breton Island. I have no cell service and the closest Wi-Fi spot is 10kms away.

Welcome back to 1995.

I love it. I have no longing to connect. I don't care what anyone has done or said or blown up or threatened. It's been a quick adjustment.

Removing myself from my life (out of the city, no kids, just my wife and I and nature) I once again think the following: We are tiny. We are fluid. We can change quickly. We can adapt. Sleep is a top priority. We're two third's water, we should protect it. We are made to move and climb and pull and push and jump. We are always looking to connect and share.

No one was lying about any of it.