Recent content by calkew5

Hey everybody,I just started a new position as lighting director for a rural Indiana theatre with a 53-year history. You might not be surprised to learn that the methods of rigging pipes on which to hang lighting are incredibly suspect. I'm seeing really frightening things such as unrated...

I'm totally doing this on the next dance show I design. :)

There are currently two threads going about two different problems in You Can't Take It With You. So there's one.

I've seen folks use small file cabinets (like card catalogs). CD cases are a popular choice, too. By that I mean those binders with the pockets.http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000A1WGL/?tag=controlbooth-20That one's a little fancy but you get the idea.

The first is rear and the other two are front. In the first, we employed a really fun mirror rig to fold the image and double the size. The projector in that setup is directly over the screen, pointed at the floor behind the screen where a 4x8 covered in mirrors is angled toward the screen of...

I've recently become the de facto projection designer of my small theatre company. During our last renovation (before my time) they sprung for an LCD projector and a wide-throw lens. Combine that with Qlab and the relatively cheap pro video license (my idea) and we've been able to take our set...

I am trying to free up some space that these guys are wasting. They are leftovers from another theatre in town that did renovations and donated them to us.I have ten of them. They're JBL Control 26CT ceiling-mounted speakers. Voltage is selectable, 70.7V or 100V.They came with a box full...

Couple of things:1. Unless I'm crazy, not all of the retrofit TH prefocus lamps of this type have equally refined filaments. I still stock EGE's and EGG's, and some of my older ones have a clunkier, less tightly-wound coiled-coil than the new ones. Maybe that would help a little?EDIT: I...

I've gotten the linear hot spot before while bench focusing radial 360's. Wish I could say I was doing restoration like you, but sadly I was doing maintenance on the current inventory...Anyway, I assumed it was due to the filament in those particular prefocus lamps (EGE's and EGG's) being...

I use no-color washes all the time, and I work in professional theatre. It's not fair to say that the choice to omit gel is only made out of necessity. For instance, how better to get an incandescent look than with an unaltered incandescent source? My old 360's and 360Q's are great for that...

That means that in a lot of cases, no one in the audience can see the hot spot of the instrument in the mirror, so you might be all right. Experiment, experiment, experiment...

shwae, just remember: Angle of Reflection=Angle of Incidence and you'll be fine. It's true. Remember that hitting the mirror with a beam of light isn't a problem unless the beam reflects off of the mirror and into someone's face. In that situation, the audience member is essentially looking...

1. A good lighting designer knows his or her limits but loves to be able to say "Yes I can." They understand that a lighting design is not a static product but a process that takes place over the course of a set time in the presence of other artists. They work safely and don't do daredevil...

Hmmm....this is a stumper. I've never actually used an Emphasis so I don't know the particulars of what it can do, but I do know that the Expression offline editor can export a show as ASCII. So if you did that, then applied a cleverly written bit of code to that raw text, you could output a...

It fits a seachanger, so it has the same body as a source four. It's compatible with source four lenses, so it has the same barrel and optics as a source four. It even uses the same lamp?! The source four came out in what, like, 92? So it took you almost twenty years to add shutter locks and...