Recent content by Jojomonkeyking

Well, we're only seeing part of it from offstage, so we have some posts down to a wagon. But our other option if they wanted it on stage was to weld up vertical rod and unwrap/rewrap rope around them.

We're in the process of doing this exact stage trick at the moment and what we've settled on is using a 6' beach ball (sourced from Amazon) and then tying rope around it to make up the harness

We have one at my university (our pit platforms have no ratings so we don't put the lift on them and use the straddler to go from house floor to stage) if you know what you are doing, it is definitely as easy as that video makes it appear. We assemble ours for hang and take it apart once the...

At the university I work at, we've got a couple of linesets with this issue, although not as extreme. Apparently during install, the T-Track wasn't installed completely plumb along the wall so the arbor shoes bind over and over again in the same places. Unfortunately, its not just in the upstage...

One thing I've seen safely done before is to build a frame around the sign with a plexi front, a solid back, and grooves inside to hold the sign in place and then you can design your rigging points into the frame around it.We built ours out of C-Channel framing to have a preexisting groove...

At my place of summer employment for the past 4 years they get the local fire department to come in and do training for the whole production and administration departments which involve a little classroom section and then using a extinguisher to put out a contained gas fire. No one is excused...

I was doing a walking tour of an old theatre originally built circa 1925 and came across some of these old blocks that had been decommissioned in the 90s but I was curious if anyone had ever seen these before or knew what company might have made them? These were found in northern Missouri...

Or a combination of folding jacks that connect all the walls together but have an opening in each of them that is big enough for the performer to dance through unobstructed such as...

Thanks everyone!We don't have enough constant modules so we're going to prioritize by most delicate/expensive equipment first.

I just had a conversation with the TD where I work and I was looking for some more clarification. We have some old Gam ColorWiz scrollers that run to a brain that is plugged into a Non-Dim module in our dimmer rack, is there a difference between that setup and one that runs to a regular...

Bringing up an old topic but.. I'm here at the Festival working at a venue and I was wondering if anyone else was around and what might they be doing?

Umm really any height, I'd understand from a full grid 60'+ it might be a problem, but what about 5'ish and onto a stage floor? We dropped a pin from a shackle this summer from 70' but luckily it missed everyone below. Even with hardhats I'd imagine it could cause quite the headache

I've heard this statement from a couple of people, some I trust and others I don't, so I figured I'd ask here. Are rated forged shackles derated after being dropped? Thank you!

We have some options for booms, what kind of instruments would you suggest?

That makes sense, thank you! Do you have any suggestions on how to do that once and I can just replicate it and change the location and color of the subsequent systems?