Recent content by propmonkey

The lighting designer I am currently assistant likes to leave space so our last cue for Our Town is 400 something. He numbered his cues like 10, 20, 30, etc to leave plenty of space and to avoid using points.Thats the first I have heard of using the page number system (4.1...). I think it...

Let's say I want the purple look...what color would you all recomend? I know I won't get a UV output but I just want a "close-enough-for-government-work" deal.

I'm helping a friend set up a blacklight dance at her high school. The DJ they are hiring has some lights and everything but they want more blacklight around the dance floor. Since this will be in a cafeteria with overhead fluorescent lights I suggested they buy a roll or gel just to have some...

i know a guy at webster for musical theatre and my cousin's roommate is going to viterbo for technical theatre currently. im going to uw miwaukee but i have only been there a year so i cant really comment right now. the last week of the semester my friend told me about uw parkside and i started...

when i worked on Guys On Ice we called up leinenkugel and they sent us a few cases of cans with their labels but were filled with soda water. they said that get calls all the time when the show is done.i watched superbad with the commentary and they said they couldnt get any alcohol company to...

i meant to just comment but the discussion was the first thing i saw.maybe just include a link to a new glossy term for teflon/thread tape.

I generally think of Plumber's Tape as Teflon Tape.

there is another post somewhere on here with a non working wheel. i know when ours broke the rubber band that connected the wheel to the sensor in the board broke off. i replaced it with a rubber gasket.

throughout high school i ran a 1:1 but thats because of the circuit layout. most other spaces ive worked patch what they need. throughout high school i ignored the patch menu unless i needed a nondim but now im learning how useful it really is

i would think videos would be better to get ideas for concert lighting. there is a thread already discussing examples.

ive found a few empty gin, whiskey, etc. bottles after a few rap concerts we had before my old high school ban them. above our prop shop i have found old mountain dew and pepsi cans along with old cigarettes. i have a decent pair of drum sticks that were left by phantom regiment from when they...

i remember reading some where that theres black paint that can be used on a stage floor that will absorb 99% of light. i dont recall what it was called

as i have said on other threads, i really dislike the word "techie"

i showed it my friend, took him a few but i think he got it. ill hold off and more people think.it will make more sense on a sunday or monday night...

thats going to wear down the lamp pretty quickly. you're better off trying to get a strobe that you can control the flash of.