Recent content by Delighted1

One more clarification due to my own confusion: No. 11 bulbs were used for rehearsals, while No. 50 bulbs were used for the performances. Got the two reversed in my head. Sorry.

Oh, and the bulb in the pictures is the size we used for rehearsals - only about 1/3 the size of the No. 11 bulbs used for the shows. The last pic shows the mylar in place and coming out through the hole in the back/bottom of the jar.

Pics of the fireball are available at Index of /NotKansas . It was a ghetto-fireball project, in that I used odds and ends to pull the device together. The socket for the flashbulb came from a broken lamp, the LED array came from a $2.99 Harbor Freight work/flashlight, the battery holders and...

Well, the show closed yesterday after selling out all four nights. You can get a look at the results of the mayonnaise-jar/zipline/LED/flashbulb contraption at http://fishtp.seizethefish.com/NotKansas/Fireball.mp4 , and a good time was had by all!

Actually it's Joe, and I'm not sure you'll ever get back to this old thread to see this. Didn't realize I'd been away so long. Whitesboro Central School District.Only got to use the strand board for one play (les Mis) and one or two concerts, but it did everything we asked it to, and could've...

Thanks, and thanks to the rest for the other responses. The zipline came about to ensure the "thrown" object got from point A to point B with a minimum of deviation, provides the ability for the "hard stop" we were thinking of using to simply trigger the battery-rigged flashbulb using not much...

Great site and info, but this one's got me stumped.High School production of the Wizard of Oz, and we can't use any pyrotechnics - no flash paper, powder, nothing - so how do we do an acceptable fireball from the witch to the scarecrow?The witch will be on a platform, the scarecrow on the...

Hi, Dave! Upstate, central New York (ever hear of Syracuse? we're 50 miles to the east), and if they were, I'd be trying for it! Unfortunately, the district doesn't appear to place much value on having a dedicated position (or, GASP!, more than one, even) for A/V since having one won't...

Hi, all, and thanks for what I've already learned by skulking for a while! I'm the lighting half of a volunteer sound and lighting duo (i.e., parents - I'm a tech writer/editor by trade who also dabbles with photography, and the other half is a working, hands-on ChEng at a local TV station)...