Recent content by drewids

You might also look at black vellum paper, like the stuff you'd do drafting on only black. It's fairly cheap, easy to work with, you can put it behind like a faux window frame and it appears to just disappear when there's no light on it, but shine a light on it from an angle and it glows with...

Good luck man! Yeah, gloves would probably be good, no matter what the kind of light. I always find myself accidentally touching a screw that gets heated by the lamp or something random like that. You might want to invest in a little thing of graphite powder. It's a dry lubricant that'll get...

I know this is an old thread, but in a conversation with one of the designers who's plot is listed at the beginning, I found out about a resource which solves a lot of the problems people have mentioned before (i.e. not knowing the WHY, etc). Theatrical Lighting Database It's got plots...

I'd say exactly...anything/everything? What was the control console setup, what sort of media server for the big screen, etc? Getting to pick apart a plot would be freakin sweet, but I'm pretty sure that ain't happening.Yeah, the Muse setup was nice, and well programmed. I was more...

You can also use the iPhone for QLab pretty well. Download LiveView (free app for iPhone) and LiveView Screencaster (free app, actually built for developers but very handy for this). Then you run the screencaster, position the window over the QLab go button and other important buttons, and it...

Howdy all, I found this site a few minutes ago searching for...something. I've got about 20 tabs open now and forgot what brought me in. New college grad, lighting designer/whatever will pay the bills for now, based in Houston. Cheers!