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    Curtain call for crew?

    i actualy am really fond of what we do at my HS the actors take a bow, then they all point, but not with one finger but with the palm open, at the both and tehn the light bord op. flashes a bunch of lights. just sorta of a "yea we are here 2" then the actors take a bow again. and in the last...
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    Corn chips in the booth.

    at school we have a no food in the auditorium rule, we enforce it when actors are around, but in the after hrs the tech crew will usualy set up a make shift table and eat dinner, if we are there that late. as foor food/drink in the booth, we are not suposed to have food in there and that is...
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    a simple chemisty question of soap

    at school we use GoJo and its amazing stuff, one thing i know is that it has little rocks, like sand and that helps get the muck off my scraping it off, thats why its good at geting dried paint off.
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    a simple chemisty question of soap

    i dont get how pH value would differ from one person to another? i mean our body carefully regulates the pH that we keep certain parts at, if not all hell would break loose. so we all have the same pH lv. on our skin atleast, well within a negligable amount. i dont think our pH has to do with...
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    a simple chemisty question of soap

    yea ur right, i got it mixed up, my bad
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    a simple chemisty question of soap

    the way my ap bio teacher explained it is that soap is made up of lipids, who have heads that are hydrophobic, lets say theya re little balls, and those little balls have tails that are hydrocarbons, these hydrocarbon tails are not hydophobic. so the heads of the lipids stick together and make...
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    Technician vs Techie

    well personaly i like to be called a techie. now im sure since im in high school and havent worked my ass off to get a degree in technical theater, i just showed up, then it wont mater as much to me what i am called. I personaly like to be called a techie, because first its fun, i mean, no...
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    Art deco

    ty very much, u actual gave me what i wanted, i was in a bit of a rush when i posted my question, so i didnt get across the message i ment i guess. i looked int o art deco and found alot of stuff, but wasnt sure how to continue.
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    Art deco

    alright at school we are doing a play ware we will have a half circle platform 16'' in the middle, around it a rectangular platform 8'' (these are hights) and then a floor lever, the director wants us to paint the floor art deco style, and use black and grays. so im not exactly sure what to do...
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    Woohoo! Auditorium surround sound... help??

    ben our auditorium holds 414 people...just fyi :) btw, awsome idea, our TD explained it to me. sounds sweet
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    Going from Old School to New School.

    now i heard something interesting about WD-40 the other day, i heard that it wasnt really an oil, but somethign that somehow like dried the metal, cleans it or something like that but dosnt actualy lubricate, now im wondering if that is true b/c my personal experience says that WD-40 will make...
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    Going from Old School to New School.

    at my school we have a few old 6x9s and we use them for front light in our black box, but in our auditorium (its not really a theater, but its close enough) they suck. but thats mostly b/c we have to cut them more and focus more, and its just a hastle to mess with rusted parts when ur on a...
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    Going from Old School to New School.

    well i dont claim any profetional knowledge or anything, but my school uses mostly 1k fresnels, we also have a few smaller ones i dono what their actual name is because we just call those fresnels
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    hello

    im in newton
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    Techie sayings

    when my TD was in college him and his buddies used to sing this *to "its a hard knock life"* "no one cares about you or speck when you're majoring in tech"
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