HowlRound:
We ate, drank, and talked seriously about the theater. Mostly we talked
about how talking about the theater is as vital to the theater as food
is to the body, and that the various strands and strata of the local
theater community could benefit from intersecting more often and
directly. John said the six of us weren’t nearly enough, that there
should be forty people at the table. So a few weeks later we threw a
“Theater Salon” for forty invited guests on the stage of Last Planet
Theater in San Francisco’s dicey Tenderloin district. To our delight, it
went over very well.
Live Design:
Probably the first thing to clear up on the performer flight systems
for Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark is this: Spider-Man can’t actually
fly. “Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man refers to himself as a
‘webslinger,’ which is not the same as flying—he can jump very high and
very far, and he can swing on a web line from location to location, but
unlike a lot of other superheroes (and supervillians, for that matter)
he does not possess the power of flight,” says Scott Fisher, principal
of Fisher Technical Services (FTSI) of Las Vegas, NV, who were contacted
to provide the performer flight systems for the show.
Popular Woodworking Magazine:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission will be accepting public
comments on a proposed rule to improve table saw safety. Comments will
not be accepted by e-mail, but will be accepted online via
regulations.gov, or through the US mail. Submit your comment to CPSC
online through this link. We hope that readers of this blog will choose
to make their voices heard, whatever side of this issue they are on.
This is an important issue, and we think it deserves careful thought and
consideration. Unfortunately, most of the statements made by the
parties involved have made use of emotional appeals, supported by
numbers that have little basis in fact. Most of the media attention this
issue has received, in the woodworking community and in the national
media, has been repetition of these arguments. Whether or not we need
government regulation for safety features on table saws should be based
on a rational analysis of the costs versus the benefits. A lot of people
get hurt every year while using table saws. These injuries can be
devastating and life-changing, and treating any injury costs a lot of
money. But will society as a whole be better off if new technology on
table saws is mandated?
WBEZ:
Though sexual harassment is rarely as blatant as “Sleep with me or I’ll
fire/won’t hire you,” most workplaces–and theater is no exception–are
shot through with male bosses who are too friendly, male co-workers who
are implacably hostile, and all the other symptoms of unchecked power to
demean and intimidate women. And who has more unchecked power than a
director in the midst of auditions?
SALT Previs: Freeway Chase from
Joshua Frankel on
Vimeo.
scanners:
Thanks to Joshua Frankel, who worked closely with director Phillip
Noyce and stunt coordinator/director Vic Armstrong on the animated
storyboards for the sequence I examined in "In the Cut Part II: A Dash
of Salt," for sending me his previsualization sequence.
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