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soundlight
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The TD here called rosco and asked for about 10 or 15 swatchbooks for the LD class. Well, the order apparently got put down as 20 or 30, and got entered twice. So now we have somewhere around 50 rosco swatchbooks, 20 gobo catalogs, and 20 color filter books. We're planning on actually letting the next few years of LD students take a swatchbook with them, asking to have it returned, but if it doesn't, well...there's more where that came from. We can also now put one in the electrics shed, on in the gel cart, a bunch in the design studio, one in the booth, and one in the tech table kit. As well as a few in the TD/LD's office and a few in the ATD's office.
See I just carry one on my person at all times.
soundlight
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Same here. Being in a Rosco house really doesn't help with Lee memorization, i've found. However, I've got somewhere over half of the Rosco swatchbook memorized.
I learned a couple R02, R80, R119, R132.
Bastard Amber, Primary Blue, Heaver Diffusion, Lighter diffusion (so I don't have the names right, but, yea.)
Oh, and R11 should be straw yellow, right? I always thought that color was sorta funny, that's the one with too much green in it, right?
I don't want to release the vultures after our friend Kelite so I'm not going into details. But if any of you are in a teaching position and you would like some instructional materials, talk to Kelite about it in P.M. The good folks at Apollo just sent me a large box that will be a great help to my classes for a while. Thanks Keith and thanks Apollo.
thelightguy87
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<but did anyone else think the gum was kinda odd>
Yes, exactly.
In 1992 when Apollo began making steel custom gobos and shipping to authorized buyers, the gum was a catchy topic of conversation. Over the years as we've watched the gum budget grow and grow, the suggestion was made that we discontinue sending these out. You wouldn't believe the outcries from the dealers and end-users of our product! Holy cow, you would've thought we decided to make our steel gobos half as thick (similar to the 'other' company's custom steel). Wow!
So for the time being, Beechies will continue to ship out as a friendly 'thank you' for choosing Apollo.
Yes, exactly.
In 1992 when Apollo began making steel custom gobos and shipping to authorized buyers, the gum was a catchy topic of conversation. Over the years as we've watched the gum budget grow and grow, the suggestion was made that we discontinue sending these out. You wouldn't believe the outcries from the dealers and end-users of our product! Holy cow, you would've thought we decided to make our steel gobos half as thick (similar to the 'other' company's custom steel). Wow!
So for the time being, Beechies will continue to ship out as a friendly 'thank you' for choosing Apollo.
Okay, couldn't resist. So I'm "wasting" my 1000th post on this. In the early nineties a maker of external hard drives for Akai samplers (name escapes me) used to have a slogan "Practice Safe SCSI" or something like that and would include a non-lubricated prophylactic with every product. Certainly a worthwhile endeavor in a product geared toward musicians. And most likely more entertaining than gum.
They're like the lighting company for really nerdy lighting designers/techs, thus IApollo. Must be fun to work there.
In 1996 I sold my 50% share of a tool & die shop to work for Joel and Keersten Nichols, who were friends since high school. The decision was the very best one I could make. Growing Apollo has been very rewarding in it's challenges and personal accomplishments, as well as a heck of a lot of fun!
I have been truly blessed to be associated with the crew at Apollo!
As far as apollo goes, I love their gobo's. Esp when i need animal gobos. All of my custom gobos are also from apollo. Nothing against rosco, but i feel apollo always takes very good care of me. Also they have some really cool colors. Now as far as swag goes, i have lots of clay paky and high end swag. Which i guess it helps when you but around 50+ lights from both manufactures . I dont know what happened to the apollo shirt i used to have, it disappeared with my HOG III shirt .
. I dont know what happened to the apollo shirt i used to have, it disappeared with my HOG III shirt .
Hughesie
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yeah apollo were really good i got my apollo stuff (still can't bring myself to chew the last of the gum)
but i ordered my rosco stuff at about the same time and all i ever got back from them is stupid auto job offers, they said they would send me a shirt if i subscribed to their job update service. i don't have to do anything like that with apollo. seriously i reckon if i sent them a really nice email they would send me a shirt, without me having to go through some stupid process.
1+ for apollo
but i ordered my rosco stuff at about the same time and all i ever got back from them is stupid auto job offers, they said they would send me a shirt if i subscribed to their job update service. i don't have to do anything like that with apollo. seriously i reckon if i sent them a really nice email they would send me a shirt, without me having to go through some stupid process.
1+ for apollo
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