Whispering Glades

  1. Drafting

    Back in the office lately, which is a nice change from the convention center which is incredibly cold, incredibly boring, and there are parts that smell like someone put a half eaten hungry man dinner inside an old running shoe.

    And if there is food… there are flies. Nice eh?

    Plus, being in the place makes your hands and feet… swell… ever so slightly. It is very uncomfortable and disconcerting.

    So I am drafting again and doing a very slow job of it. Autocad 2009 is again not winning any prizes. It is pretty slow at times which is confusing because I am doing nothing out of the ordinary, but it really has to think HARD about common commands like copy, move, rotate, offset, and save. Especially save. Weird.

    Oh. No MORE LEDS! If there is a “No More LEDs” bandwagon, I want to get on. Everyone wants to use LEDs in their show. LED lo-res panels, LED hi-res panels, Soft-Led curtains, LED fixtures, LED wash lights and on and on. That’s great, but no one wants to cough up the money to buy the good ones, or rent them for that matter. Well only the richest of the clients do.

    A lot of the LED stuff is turning into LO-RES video, which is cool and one can do some pretty cool magic stuff, but maybe I spent too much time in the theater world and don’t see why EVERY show has to have some kind of LED shit happening (on top of a bunch of moving lights wiggling around). If you can’t sell your message or product without visual aids, a hook, and a gimmick, maybe you should try looking at your product and message again.

    There is also a LOT of the idea of making things look like a “ROCK SHOW”. I cannot stress the quotes enough in that statement. Nothing makes me want to buy a product quite like a bunch of shiny objects whizzing around splashing light and video on every surface, glass and chrome everywhere. The old 3 card monte trick, the distraction, to keep you from concentrating on what they’re not telling you and to just go along with the pitch.

    Also the “we want to make it look like Vegas” theory is tossed around a lot. That would be fun, like a real rock show would be fun, but you have to have the money and the time, you can take the typical flash and trash lighting and turn it into the proverbial high class whore (of lighting) and that’s great and fun.

    But, we’re not in Las Vegas or New York or Miami or Los Angeles so the people only want to pay for something more akin to Tunica than Las Vegas. If that. More like a Portland Oregon Keno bar.

    But this is pretty cool.  If you follow the link to the page, you can get to the video at the bottom right of the source page.

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  3. “Because China and the United States competed on the same events each rotation, it was easy to notice differences in their body types. The Chinese gymnasts lack curves, have an average height of 4 feet 9 inches and weigh an average of 77 pounds. Deng is the smallest, at 4-6 and 68 pounds. The women on the United States team, generally more muscular and shapely than the Chinese, are an average of 3 ½ inches taller and 30 pounds heavier.”

    I’m not one to get into the olympics, especially something as boring as gymnastics, but that is creppy and weird.  A 68 lb, 16 year old?  I don’t care where you’re from, that is TINY.

    NY Times

  4. BBC NEWS | World | Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight

    HOLY SHIT.  This was in my waking nightmares all of my life.

    I am amazed and stand wholly in awe of the potential for comic tragedy the universe contains, lying in wait, like a lion, ready to attack.

    I love that the Cambodian government took a 50% cut of ticket sales.  Truly classy.

    They really should have brought that 43rd midget.

    conditiond:

    at a loss for words on this one

  5. Goodbye O, Hello O!

  6. For my robot girlfriend. chloesanchez: seagull:saramcpherson:robotsandunicorns (thewordunheard) I sent this to New Guy, and he’s getting it for his wife. So fantastic!

    For my robot girlfriend.

    chloesanchez:

    seagull:saramcpherson:robotsandunicorns (thewordunheard)

    I sent this to New Guy, and he’s getting it for his wife. So fantastic!

  7. Just About 80 Percent...

  8. Birthday Circus Week!

  9. “If you can’t change the people around you… you have to change the people around you.”

  10. My Big Day, or The Year of the Roach

  11. This shit is for real.

    What I do is an actual job.  I get paid to do this.

    Currently I am not designing any lighting.  Thank god, instead I am babysitting 1200 amps of power and a bunch of equipment at this show.  This is my ideal job on a show site since it involves a lot of sitting and staring into space.  Busying myself with little projects I can complete in silence, in the dark.

    No big thing.  Sometimes I get to drive around the 80 foot Snorkel boom lift which is fun.  It bounces and wiggles around like crazy, which is thrilling and scary at the same time.  It will swing 2-3 feet from side to side when at height as you move around in the bucket.  Awesome!  It’s like being in a trampoline 60 feet off the ground.

    I have to wonder how I got here and do thie for a living.  The path of least resistence, to use an electrical phrase, i guess that is what got me here.

    Hopefully soon I can go back to school and get a degree in the awesome sciences so I can do something where I don’t have to work so much!

  12. Gone are the days of flawless shows with only one rehearsal.  I miss them.  Decisions are made.  Answers are given.  Feet are put down. I need these dudes and their fan, to come back me up. craigfinnistheawesomestguyalive: Does this really need a caption?

    Gone are the days of flawless shows with only one rehearsal.  I miss them.  Decisions are made.  Answers are given.  Feet are put down.

    I need these dudes and their fan, to come back me up.

    craigfinnistheawesomestguyalive:

    Does this really need a caption?

  13. Not Tired

  14. SMARTIES! Part Deux

  15. SMARTIES!
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