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Foam carving would be a great option to pursue. As others have also stated, foam can be a cheap but labor intensive. One option to pursue is sculpting a scale model of the car you want. Then make a mold and recast the car with a liquid styrafoam. With a bandsaw cut the styrafoam model into...

Hello all, I recently purchased a very old Summagraphics SummaJet SJ1324C plotter to do my AutoCAD work on. It came without a user's manual so I know virtually nothing about it. Does anyone have any knowledge/resources on this plotter?

Ok awesome and sounds easy enough. Now another question. The video has to take place backstage, and the DL2 will be on the first electric. Is it still feasable to run a 100'-200' video cable from the camera to the DL2?

Hello everyone! Here is what we are aiming for as an end result. We need a live feed to be projected through a DL.2. What would be the best way to go about this? We will have them video(ed) off-stage somewhere, and it has to be videoed every performance. (of course its the directors decision)...

Thats the same way with me-my whole family went to A&M, uncles were in the corps...etc. etc. If your looking for a theater college in texas though, UT is the best in the state. I'll be going to UT this fall, and I am actually looking forward to it. If you a;ready know what it is you want to do...

Congratulations on the callbacks! They are all good colleges-the best for lighting would prbly be Evansville, Viterbo, or Texas (assuming that is University of Texas at Austin). UT has a lighting design degree and i think they have a concentration in Intelligent Lighting. They really have some...

the way the auditions work is you have your own booth/table. the college representatives will pair/trio up and rotate around the tables while someone (last year it was Peter Sergeant, the head of the program at Webster) is the timekeeper. You will have 5 minutes per "round" to basically sell...

are you a sophomore or a freshman? if not then dont listen to any of this because its probably too late. next year go and do the technical theatre auditions there. not many do it and its a treasure trove. a lot of big name colleges go there to get talent and there are not that many that do the...

automatic spellcheck changed it to batons and i didnt catch it. and i meant 375, not 300, to make the point that you can use 4 source fours per circuit. and lamps, bulbs, es ist mir egal. next time ill pull out the red pen

you are definitely able to plug in a source four. over this past school year we had our theatre renovated and so one of our shows and all of our practices were done in a cafetorium that was made available to us by our principal. we hung batons from the metal girding (above the suspended ceiling)...

woohoo! i've already got the sleep deprivation thing down....is there such a thing as high caffeinated coffee? not that i mind drinking a pot a day, i just wish it'd do a bit more!

Any one have any advice/words of wisdom for tech theater in college? I've worked on set/lights/sound all four years at my high school and this fall will be majoring in Theatre Technology at University of Texas at Austin.

Another idea besides projectors is either use an existing ellipsoidal and use IPro slides, or invest in a Selecon Fixed Beam Ellipsoidal. It runs about the same price as a ETC ellipsoidal, and uses the same HPL lamp. The heat from the instrument dissipates through the back end, so it doesn't...

So our theater department has a bunch of old Kliegl Bros Scoops. The only info I have on them are they are type RR, 18 inch(?). We use 750 watt, clear(?) 130 volt bulbs, PS52 shape (coming straight off the lamp case). We used to get bulbs from DAMAR, but I heard that they recently they went out...