If you know, hold off on posting, just like the "Bonanza" thread.
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If you know, hold off on posting, just like the "Bonanza" thread.

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....Seriously len? You've never heard that term? I thought that was an industry standard term.
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I know what it means
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I've never heard it in the past, but it seems pretty self explanatory.
Brett Smith
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Yea I know this one. I've been saying it since I was like eight or something, I thought I "invented" it.
One must first know and understand the rules of theatre before one can break them.


Just don't let him in on the whole " the world doesn't revolve around him" thing...that's always upsetting
Van J. McQueen
Technical Director
Artists Repertory Theatre
"The only Dumb Question is the one you don't ask."


Naw man, the world revolves around the actor, so they can try to screw in the lightbulb they are holding, all the while getting confused why the "lightbulb" doesn't seem to even have a screw base.
You neglected the part where I came up with that term when I was eight or so, at that age, everything is original.
One must first know and understand the rules of theatre before one can break them.

6 P's to live by: Piss Poor Planning Prevents Positive Performance
4 P's for LD's Producers Prefer Pretty Photographs.
Nothing like being focused and desperate to make me remember how something works. ~Steve B
It's not bullying--it's educating via the time-honored traditions of intimidation and humiliation. ~Derek

Imagine a 28v lamp on a 120v source.... It's gonna work, gonna funcition at for every 1% change in voltage, a 3.6% change in luminous output added to a 0.4% change in color temperature, but 12% inverse change in lamp life. Yep, gonna get really bright really fast.. not gonna last long in that filament as if the sun going supernova.


I've had them go Supernova and then Volcano while I was inches away focusing. Big Bang...
Dustin Cochran
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