- 13:08 Being a tool taxi for Doc #
- 17:44 Tool taxi, part two #
- 21:07 I am Bender, please insert girder #
Monday, April 05, 2010
Shorties
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Ellipses...
Add USITT to the things I need to write an actual post about... If you're not careful it does seem like a roto-tiller could take off your foot... I wasn't watching, but I appear to have missed spring... Chapel is nicer to sit next to on a plane than Kevin... I came home from the conference to a new bedroom set, if that were a more regular occurrence it could get fairly expensive... Futurama really is a good tv show. I hope the new ones live up to the old ones... I found a new Jesse Stone book, I think I'll read it this week. Nobody asked, but I think there's plenty of content for people with small BA programs... Was really nice to see all those people I so rarely see last week... If you won't loan your truck you will wind up running errands for others... Its fairly clear that the cats missed me while I was away... I think I would have rather had the next Caprica Friday rather than SGU starting up again... I wonder what the state of the mainstage is... I wonder if I started a fund to raise money to move to the house we want if people would contribute. Probably not... Several days and no panicked calls from the tax guy. Maybe I did it right... I am old and can no longer drink for two nights in a row; or maybe I just need more practice... So far the FIOS is seeming like a good call, but I think maybe we are missing the movie channels - maybe I should start a fund for cable too... There are four weeks of class left! I wonder when that happened... I didn't buy an iPad. I likely won't buy an iPad, but I wouldn't turn down a free iPad... Comparing criticism of the Church for covering sexual abuse to the historical persecution of the Jews might not be a winning strategy... So far I have watched zero NCAA Tournament games. I'd wager it will remain that way... Time to get my June figured out. If you're expecting something from me in June please let me know... I am Bender, please insert girder...
Shorties
- 11:54 Begin return trip #
- 13:35 MCI -> CLE #
- 16:26 And down #
- 16:51 It has just occurred to me that teaching Creationism in public schools is antidisestablishmentarianism (via @ebertchicago) #
- 17:33 CLE -> PIT. It's not a big plane. #
- 18:15 Down, safe. #
- 00:38 tip: when budgeting tech time, have everything figured in advance, or add time to figure stuff out. Prevent frustration. (via@backstagejobs) #
- 01:35 Kind of a dark opening for Brave and the Bold this week. #
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Shorties
- 10:49 raining pretty impressively #
- 11:43 Four #
- 13:04 Young technicians forum. Those NCSA kids can really draft. #
- 15:45 @bpeoples maybe talk to Cope #
- 15:47 I keep walking the same three blocks #
- 17:25 Stage expo struck #
- 17:48 Oops, got a session for next year. #
- 19:29 Understanding ETCP session #
- 21:12 Or maybe I don't have a session #
- 23:35 Yale Alumni reception #
- 23:37 queerty.com saying Ricky-Martin-is-gay was only an April Fool's joke is itself...an April Fool's joke. j.mp/cacoCd (via@ebertchicago) #
Friday, April 02, 2010
Shorties
- 15:34 Don't miss Mary Coleman, Sr. Creative Dev Executive at PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS @ Philip Chosky Theater today @ 4:30. (via @CarnegieMellCFA) #
- 15:39 Lunchtime #
- 18:39 Really, there's nothing for small programs? #
- 18:40 Tech Production Commission meeting #
- 19:10 Who cares? #
- 19:31 leaving for dinner - 7:30 Marriott lobby #
- 19:56 Hooray! They found the STAC! #
- 19:56 RT @stagedirec tions: Saw a t-buckle demo'd. rod SNAPPED at 8261 lbs pressure. (best pic I got-next time vid) #usitt yfrog.com/73rp8j #
- 19:57 @giantspatula send to me, I will forward. #
- 19:58 RT @backstagejobs: Just learned a major Chicago theatre had a 2nd tech fall from a focus track, severe injury. This is a problem, dammit! #
- 21:25 Dinner, eventually... yfrog.com/2pfhlsj #
- 23:41 Back at Power & Light #
- 01:57 May have escaped just in time. K #
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Shorties
- 06:02 Monitors say A8, Internet says D77. I wonder which will be right. #
- 06:27 Anyone playing at home, it was the Internet. #
- 07:00 PIT -> CLE #
- 08:01 Touchdown #
- 08:37 CLE -> MCI #
- 10:46 Down again #
- 14:49 Show floor #
- 18:10 Had to come to Kansas City to talk to Joe Pino #
- 19:25 Show flo or closed. Recharging my phone. THinking about dinner. #
- 21:25 Servicable free food at Nifty @ 50 #
- 21:32 Tech Production leadership meeting #
- 22:30 Gordon Biersch #
- 00:00 @scoutfinch2271 you are old. Do what they say. #
- 00:01 Looking for Celeste & Alys #
- 00:29 Found 'em. #
- 01:50 Well, that was later than I planned on. And I blew off Ellen - I may be a jerk. #
- 02:29 can anyone really be surprised the wiretapping was illegal? #
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Shorties
- 11:36 Working on a show for October. Right like that fits in my schedule. #
- 16:51 Scenic Fabrication - things that aren't flats or platforms #
- 17:18 PTM Business Practice - taxes #
- 18:37 Take 2 #
- 22:13 Lost, on the new DVR. Then packing. #
- 04:40 In motion way too early #
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Shorties
- 11:16 looking for a full time vid prod intern this summer. Must be able to shoot/edit (Final Cut) independently. $100/wk. DM me. (via @aerdin) #
- 15:58 Entertainment Rigging - Bungee #
- 23:29 Decent seder - epic cleanup #
- 23:40 resetting the Slingbox for the new internet service #
- 00:04 Greenpage weekly top 5: bit.ly/dmm26p #
- 01:23 @ellenjuhlin oh geez #
- 01:24 Mrs. Boevers, clearly the hostess with the mostess #
Worth a Look
Here are some posts from the last two weeks of the Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Text of Theresa Rebeck Laura Pels Keynote Address
Women & Hollywood: "Last night I saw someone do something very brave. My friend, Theresa Rebeck, a very successful playwright, TV writer and novelist, got up in front of a group of theatre people and talked about gender. She talked about how her career has been hampered because she is a woman. She talked about how she became toxic after a bad NY Times review. She talked about the abysmal number of plays produced by women. She talked about the missing women’s plays."Why are professors at Harvard, Duke, and Middlebury teaching courses on David Simon's The Wire?
Slate Magazine: "Among the police officers and drug dealers and stickup men and politicians and dockworkers and human smugglers and teachers and students and junkies and lawyers and journalists who populate the late, great HBO series The Wire, there is one academic. His name is David Parenti and he teaches social work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He is not a major character, but he appears throughout the show's fourth season—an earnest, well-meaning man defined in part by his naïveté about the inner-city kids whose lives he wants to improve. As for Johns Hopkins, Baltimore's best-known university, it only comes up as a place where the show's police officers can get cushy campus security jobs after they retire. Academia, in other words, is not a culture that the show's creators, David Simon and Ed Burns, betray much interest in exploring."Court Documents: Osorio Wasn't Using the Guard or Rip Fence
Popular Woodworking: "If you're a woodworker, you know about the landmark lawsuit – Carlos Osorio vs. One World Technologies Inc. et al – and about the $1.5 million dollar jury award. Discussions, both for and against the verdict, have been ongoing since the jury decided that One World Technologies (known to us as Ryobi) was at fault. However what most people don't know are the actual facts of this injury. How did Osorio cut his hand? What injuries did he sustain?"MSI: The Science of Storms
abc7chicago.com: "Be blown away by a 40-foot tornado swirling before you. See bolts of lightning crack over your head. Trigger an avalanche. Unleash a tsunami wave. It's all possible beginning March 18, 2010, as the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI) unveils Science Storms, an unprecedented and dramatic permanent exhibit in newly-named Allstate Court that reveals the extraordinary science behind some of nature's most powerful and compelling phenomena-tornados, lightning, fire, tsunamis, sunlight, avalanches and atoms in motion."BMW Museum, München
Kinetische Skulptur: "The Kinetic Sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art and design. 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters, animate a seven minute long mechatronic narrative."David Mamet's Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit
Movieline: "HERE ARE THE DANGER SIGNALS. ANY TIME TWO CHARACTERS ARE TALKING ABOUT A THIRD, THE SCENE IS A CROCK OF SHIT.
ANY TIME ANY CHARACTER IS SAYING TO ANOTHER “AS YOU KNOW”, THAT IS, TELLING ANOTHER CHARACTER WHAT YOU, THE WRITER, NEED THE AUDIENCE TO KNOW, THE SCENE IS A CROCK OF SHIT.
DO NOT WRITE A CROCK OF SHIT. WRITE A RIPPING THREE, FOUR, SEVEN MINUTE SCENE WHICH MOVES THE STORY ALONG, AND YOU CAN, VERY SOON, BUY A HOUSE IN BEL AIR AND HIRE SOMEONE TO LIVE THERE FOR YOU."
Monday, March 29, 2010
Random Photos
Finishing out the last set. Gonna be time for the next one soon.
The single biggest project I did while at CMU was the TV Project. It isn't really the same sort of thing now.
Nice to be back in the big studio at QED though. Here's some of the kids striking the last of it.
I went back into the hallway of course...
Someplace I have a photo to match this from maybe 1989.
It was my boss' birthday last week.
There was cake at the option coordinator meeting.
The frosh had several personality balloons for their Rube-Goldberg machine. This is the David balloon:
Unfortunately none of the celebrity balloons produced successful trials.
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