Recent content by RichardTheSecond

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    Should I trust this c-clamp?

    Easy: Ask yourself what the jury's reaction will be when they see the photo projected 10 feet high onto the screen in the courtroom. You're mixing parts of unknown strength and age with each other to save $50.
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    Design Footlights! I beg of you! Footlights!

    Fascinating. I assumed footlights were just there as a supplemental fill light for eye sockets and to soften the wrinkles on actors of a certain age. But of course they wouldn't work farther upstage, would they. That's interesting about McCandless. I've read a little about his technique online...
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    Design Footlights! I beg of you! Footlights!

    Just about every production I've ever seen in the last 20 years, big or small, features big dark shadows in the actor's eye sockets. It's like watching a play put on by raccoons. Do audiences not care anymore about seeing the actor's eyes? I come from a stills and video background where eye...
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