View Larger A cup of water in front of the LED strips in my room refracts the individual diodes into rays.
-Joe
Sooo I’ve never seen Bunraku before but it’s on right now and I was instantly intrigued by the lighting. It’s very prominent and theatrical, unlike any other film I can think of off the top of my head. The only thing that made me a little upset is that I could pick up on the CMY theme instantly, but it’s still fantastic looking.
The Senior Lighting Technical Director on it was Timothy Hoffman, who also worked on Sweeney Todd with the same job. Bravo, Hoffman. Bravo.
-Sydney
Woke up and came downstairs to find my brother and mom watching Deadmau5 concert footage.
Commented on the amount of Vari-Lites and the use of Congo Blue, and explained to my brother how to patch a moving fixture. He takes after his big sister.
-Sydney
“Sooooo Sydney, the console is doing something weird. I’ve tried everything.”
“Did you try restarting it?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Sorry, had to ask.”
My favorite part was that I was on speaker phone and could pick out at least 4 different voices, all of whom were freaking out.
View Larger We picked up 6 new Apollo Smart Color Pros today to add to our stock. Now we have 24 Wybron Forerunners and 6 SCPs.
-Joe
View Larger Inventory paperwork is much easier with such a small rig at an itty bitty theatre, let me tell you.
But Word and I weren’t getting along when I was doing my cable labeling paperwork.
- Sydney
Submitted my resume to one of the big theatres in the suburbs to be their Eos programmer.
For a physically small space, they have buckets of gear.
Could be cool.
-Joe
View Larger The express is a BEAUTIFUL board. Why the contempt?This is what I’m doing for the next week and a half, running a show. It’s an awkward booth and I can see zero percent of the actual stage, but I can look out the open window at least…
P.S. That is an old ETC Express and I have so much contempt for it, it’s not even funny.
I had to run a show off monitors for 4 weeks in the tiniest booth I’ve ever seen and it was always hot as hell (the sound op and I had to wear layers so we could slowly strip during the runs).
And, it was on an Express, which is a great little console. Just because it isn’t the “newest” technology doesn’t mean it’s bad! The Express just isn’t manufactured anymore because of the release of the Element. And the Expression was discontinued after the Express was released. But I have to say, the Expression 3 is also a nice console. Yes, it has it’s quirks because it’s not the “newest” technology that a lot of people have gotten used to but it’s still a great console. I programmed a very large show on it and grew to love it. Yes, I’d rather have a lovely Eos line console but the Expression 3 worked out just fine.
-Sydney
