Odd...

But I feel like I'm not allowed to dislike work that is presented in the Lab.
I like the choreographer, the dancers, the costume, the music... just not the piece as a whole. In my eyes it failed.
I got no narrative from much of it... I enjoyed watching the dancing - but just didn't really get it.
This isn't to say that no one liked it, or understood it.

Just waiting...

This is how I left the Dance Lab tonight (apparently I shouldn't be calling it by this name any more... it should be just "The Theatre", but whatever)...

I couldn't help but think that it looked like it was between jobs, just waiting...

there are many ways to die...

And this is just one of them.
I found this plugged in to the wall of my theatre. The adapter is fine, shuttered with earths etc. The way the Chinese 2 prong to 5A, fig8 IEC fits isn't good at all... especially as there were two little children in the theatre with the company that day with fingers just the right size to die!

The owner got a free 13A to Fig 8 IEC and a threat that if anything similar is plugged in in my theatre again then she should very quickly unplug it and leave with it never to return.

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 :)