House

I've been helping an artist, Liz Connor, to create and publish footage from a site specific performance piece that she and her colleagues did a while back.
Here is the vid... I'd have quite liked to have attended the performance as it looks quite interesting.

http://liz-dancearts.tumblr.com/

MEWW really do seem to have disappeared! :/

Website not there

Phone not available

No resellers

Oh well...

It's a shame then that we have problems with loads of these... on top of the lights from yesterday.

The switched 240v pass through on the controller doesn't pass 240v through! Not much use then really, although it does run the EM light mode still... so no rush to fix it.

Another post from the glamourous life of a technical manager!?!

So not a lot going on this week with tech in the theatre... But this doesn't mean that there isn't tonnes of other stuff to sort out... I was just passing my Operations Manager's office when I got pulled into this little gem!

Here we have a non-maintained EM light with switched normal light. Didn't seem to be anything wrong with the supplies, 240v on all rails... it just doesn't come on under normal use... but still comes on in an emergency.
Well lets just replace the control gear then.. ah.. MEWW seem to have dropped out of existence online! Shame that the fitting is designed to fit around this gear then!! Ho humm!

My 1st ever go at a promo video

Client seemed happy with it.

www.zendeh.com

Hopefully any others will be shorter?

Some lessons learned in the making of this:

• film the media yourself
• question wether it really needs to be filmed in HD
• don't delete the master files until you are really, really, really sure the job is finished

A little bit of lighting...

That I threw together for ITV to film Appetite's rehearsal for their upcoming show in:

It must be getting on for a couple of months since I last touched the Congo?!

What could be simpler...

...than a big ol' box truss system with some lx bars hung on it?

On first sight it looks simple, and the load ratings look simple as supplied by the engineer. But this system is a complicated system, it can take a lot more that this implies. Calcs are based on simple suspension, there is no simple suspension anywhere on this truss.

Unfortunately Litec, the manufacturer of the truss really couldn't care less about helping the end user, so we are left to try to make the most out of what we have according to the specs they provide.

Henry

Sometimes it's the most domestic things that make me happy.
I've finally been allowed to buy my own vacuum cleaner for the theatre... I went for the obvious and traditional choice: A bright red Henry by Numatic :)