Through a Broken piece of Glass

Arnold was right

So first, an apology for the stopping cold in March...Got a little sick and had to take care of that. Then graduated and moved. So here I am set up in a new theatre with new fun. Hopefully I will try to pick on someone from a few places and make them right about what's up.

marshmellow thrower

For As You Like It... we are using a snow thrower. Pretty cool little device that can throw fake snow for a really little diameter or up to like 20'...maybe more I forget. We got it from Star Light Magic. A wonderul find by our job lead.

Well, it also works with minimarshmellows.

Tomorrow is last day of classes before mid-semester break. However, for the those fortunate souls involved in NAthan the Wise crew...they have to stick around until Saturday when the school is broadcasting the show to one of it's satellite campus'.

This week has been set putting in camera platforms, getting rid of seats for easy mobility...setting up an area for a camera jig/boom/arm/thingy... Tomorrow at 7am we load in the camera crew and get all that underway.

Hello Again started load-in tonight and scenery finished. I will have to take a picture tomorrow during lighting focus. They are reusing the last studio set (which never made it in here but should have for the biggest boo-boos). I will explain when there is a picture handy tomorrow...or the day after tomoroow is really busy.

um, yeah

I think this says enough.

oh yeah, Nathan the Wise opened as did New Works shows Cherry Smoke and some show about a chinese women (wow am I good with names)

Wood

Oh my god, It is Just a piece of Wood...it is not a fucking competion! It is wood guys, just wood...help each other out...lift the damn thing up!

Interesting talking about guys who are bitching about their wood...hmm.

Nathan

Is almost Wise

I never did take the picture of the model...sorry if I killed you while you were holding your breath :)

Hey, that's a fire curtain...really it says so.

Unveiling the set...

It's getting there...but it is also getting late and it takes too long to upload photos.

It also makes me sad that a lot of effort got put into this show last semster and now that work has just been broshed away. The only things not done where the full development of fire curtain system, plans were underway and construction was not completed on thee wall, but it was begun.

Guess that might be the sad thing about this scheme...people loose credit and other people are only to eager to take it. BUt then again these are the same people who take your drafting and put their names on it...hmmm,

And so tomorrow or the next day or...sometime focus will occur and more pics will appear.

Beast...

not you, on the Moon...silly.

Beast has not had a mention since it was budgeted or drawn or something some time ago. So what we have here is a wall. Not just any wall, no no...this is what happens when designers spend to much time together they want similar things. This year we had a set of curved walls (Urinetown) and a set with back lit walls (Nathan the Wise) and here in Beast have the 2 put together...A curved backlit wall. hehe...the offspring of our mainstage shows that occurs right between them.

So I got to come in and teach somebody how to roll some steel, although for how much rolling I have done, this was my first attempt at rolling to no radius on one piece of steel on multiple passes. Amazingly, the pieces actually looked the same. Then off to the job leads first (I guess we could this as challenging) welding project, but still not structural...don't worry, you're time will come when you stop listening to how 4 different people weld and add in your own style.

I enjoy the sparks... But that show has moved on and got built...took a little to many opinions. Sometimes you just have to pick one person and go to them for advice. If you get to many opinions things like welding with no gas might happen... some people actually have a good idea of how it works... that is why they tell you how to do it from the begining...some people don't which is why they are slightly more long winded (they are making it up as they go). Choose your source, stick to it the combination of ideas sometimes doesn't work on abstract things.

Thank God the scenery always eventually gets there. Even if it has to be cut in half to fit through the door.

But all in all, it is assembled and lit and life goes on... It may have been just a studio show, but you still must give it the time of day! I hope this isn't, as George Clinton put it, "A taste of things to come."

deja vu

I feel like I have said this before...but maybe I have only thought (highly unlike me).

You are in school to learn. Do not pass up this oppurtunity. You pay to much money and give to much of yourself to learn. So what if you have never done something before, better reason to do it now. Do it when people are around you to help you and hopefully guide you through the process. If you loose sight of this, then what do you plan to take away because it won't be experience... your education will only be what you make it...are you sure you ar ein the right field if it frightens you to do this work?

Weekend in the Theatres

Well, no build crew to report in about over the weekend, but there are 2 techs going on. Dance Light which is taking place in the studio space now has some dancers for its light.

There are of course some...
odd pieces.

But there are also so
very well put together pieces

And there are some that look
better in person

More of the well put together piece...

....

Nice lines...

Great shadow play in this piece
(same piece as above)

There will be more pictures eventually. It was first time in this low light with new camera am working out the...quirks...of it.

Meanwhile in on the main stage the opera is loaded in and ready for action. First tech was sunday night (piano tech) with monitors coming on late because, you do need to turn on the surge protector in order to make power go to the TV, sigh.

The tall scary shelf
That out quite lovely.

Nice lighting on the tent

if you closely enough...
this hole resembles a lighting instrument
new ceiling has been installed

but it could have been worse than having to remake that...

it could be my hand in the door
trying to get keys i didn't mean to return
thank you for staff calling security and
getting us access.

and that is the weeknd.

slow start

So classes have kicked into gear and so has crew. Tuesday night seemed to go fine, it took a couple hours to bolt a few things togther and screw on some legs and move some stuff around, really nothing terribly exciting but a nice way to get back into it.

Last night was interesting. It took 5 or 6 people 4 hours to do this...

The blue arrows are pointing to what got done. A double layer of plywood screwed to 3 sides of 1 flat. So not even 1 flat finished and 7 more to go plus lightboxes and an arena deck to go...at this rate, it doesn't matter that we finished last semester ahead of schedule, scenery will fall into its normal rate of being behind...unless something kicks into gear.

Then the after crew the job lead was up most of night working on more drafting instead of other people being able to work on it during crew, sucks to be her.