Recent content by techismylife

Thank you everyone for your recommendations. I've got some pyro lined up (so many legalities for that you have to start really early now), some fog, some intelligent lighting, and I'm going to build a fountain that uses a 3" pvc tank 4 feet tall; 2.5 feet for water, 1.5 feet for compressed air...

This is for a basketball team intro. I saw the fountain style effect on broadway and would like to recreate it--it reminds me of a pyro gerb and water can be pretty mezmorizing with colored lighting. So I've got a large basketball court to work with and structural beams about 40' high, the...

1 shot--instantaneous. I'm now also considering what it would take to make a water screen that something could be projected on. (This would need to last longer).

i'm thinking anywhere from 3/4" to 2" diameter column of water. 20 feet would be good, but its the concept i need the most help with. Here's what i'm thinking so far: A large open trough/water tank with sloped sides, roughly 4' wide by 16' long with either 4 or 5 fountains spaced evenly along...

I'd like to create a water effect where water is shot in a straight column around 20 feet in the air and then falls back into a trough. It doesn't need to last long and is only used one time per show. Multiple columns would be nice, too. Any help is appreciated.

several companies also make snow machines. But if you take this route, beware, because some have reputations for being very very noisy. LeMaitre makes a Silent Storm DMX machine that is around $710 USD. i have never used this one, so you'd need to look into how much area it can cover...

Our school owns two Martin RoboPro 400 color changers and 1 elipscan mirror (similar to rosco's I-Cue, but cheaper). We also have a Martin Atomic DMX 3000 strobe We have rented Martin 918's before, and are now looking into buying some Mac 2000's. We currently control everything with either...

I did the lighting design for Inherit the Wind just this past April. The play basically has two settings; the courtroom and the town square. When I lit this show, the play began with pools of light on each townsperson as they began speaking, eventually filling the whole stage as the town came...

well it looks like gmail is going to win for now though, with 1000 megs of sorage space! how am i ever going to fill all that???

One headset policy i've used before is that if a tech sees some non-tech (be it actor, director, whoever) get on headset, then the tech mentions something about albuquerque, like "i hear albuquerque is lovely this time of year" or "my brother was planning a trip to albuquerque" and that way...

LeMaitre Special Effects has started offering a pyrotechnics training course. They demonstrate their effects which are all premade, and explain how to use them safely as well as how various control systems work. They put the information about it at...

I've just used HogPC to play with on my computer, and i didn't find it too difficult to learn. The nice thing is that it can interface with some visualizers such as Capture 3.0, Martin Show Designer, and WYSIWYG, allowing you to program your show when you're not in the church. You can download...