Just sent E-Mail off to the shop manager/stewert requesting his help in this. All planned out. This is going to happen in the morning - shop Stewert will love it and we are not busy at the moment - perfect timing.
"JP" is a target on my gunsite for this joke. Read below, I need your help ("JH" the
Leko Manager is ready to go on this) but I need some force of help and making it as realistic in a rush project as possible to get her.
"JH" gets a rush job for some show (as real as possible) that needs fixtures and gobos. We need to be one short, I can coordinate this
thru "PG". "JP" in helping out should be pulling the Lekos and prepping the show (a rental or supplement to a big high
profile show perhaps going out that afternoon.) Given the buyer who normally buys gobos is out of town at the moment, there than is no way for us to get more on time. Perfect timing for him to be out of town.
"JH" sends "JP" over to me so as to make one more (should be a fairly simple
gobo design such as say a cross for "WC" - an overly huge church we get stuff for all the time.) "JH" can help by way of saying that my area has the ability to make gobos and has done it in the past - I have but normally out of steel or aluminum.
I'll take it from there. I'll give her some cardboard from a case of Coke and
Exacto Knife than have her get a
gobo to
trace. Away she goes. Yep, she will be concerned about the heat resistance of cardboard. Yep, I'll tell her it's going into a S-4 light
fixture and they run cooler by way of
dichroic reflectors. I'll than confuse here in explaning in great detail about how
dichroic reflectors work, and what the light focused at the
gate is doing in convincing her that it will work fine. "Do it all the time of
one off's."
Can work and to boot it would be educational for her.
We all than seemingly at some
point gather around her as she
play tests that last
gobo. And laugh and laugh, than wait for her to slug me and all about. Only person in the shop that will take such an extensive joke thus appropriate.
Heck, to make it even more realistic, I'll have her spray down the
gobo with graphite spray in telling her it will protect the cardboard from the heat. The graphite spray than she will have to heat gun on the cool mode so as to make it dry faster and in making the project more involved yet and timely in needing that spray to dry fast or the stuff will not ship in time.
gotta do this, can I do this, will you help me do this?