Control Geek

Tech Table on Lifehacker

2010-02-07T13:00:00Z

Lifehacker has a great write up by UConn student Greg Purnell of the projection tech table setup for a production of Connecticut Repertory Theatre's Galileo from late last year:

Snow Drift Time Lapse

2010-02-06T20:11:59Z

Geek Recursion

2010-02-06T04:40:34Z

This makes me laugh:

Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie

2010-02-04T04:33:46Z

I've always been fascinated by the Mellotron, heard this piece on John Schaefer's always excellent WNYC show Soundcheck today, and just ordered Dianna Dilworth's movie on DVD:

Fun In Vermont

2010-02-01T02:38:34Z

A Sound/Show Control Guy's Take On the grandMA2

2010-01-28T16:35:27Z

After years of work by my CityTech colleagues Charles Scott and John Robinson, we recently got a brand new MA Lighting grandMA2 system at the school. We got two main consoles: a GrandMA2 Full Size, and a GrandMA2 Light; a VPU Video Processing Unit; and network DMX processors. I was lucky enough to sit in on the excellent training session, done by Jason Baeri of A.C.T. Lighting, and I'm going to give you a little perspective on the console from a sound/show control guy's perspective.

Under Atlantic Avenue In The World's Oldest Subway Tunnel

2010-01-23T21:41:43Z

Buried for over 150 years right under Brooklyn's very busy Atlantic Avenue is a long-forgotten and amazing rail tunnel. I have heard about this tunnel's rediscovery in 1980 by Bob Diamond since probably the early 1990's, and have long wanted to check it out. But tours were infrequent, always filled up quickly, and it just kept falling off my radar. But a couple friends recently got tours through Open House New York, and went today, and it was well worth it.

The tunnel is cool, but it is, after all, a hole in the ground. What's really amazing is Mr. Diamond's incredible (mostly true) stories of both the tunnel and his re-discovery of the entrance way in 1980.

You enter through a manhole in the middle of busy Atlantic avenue:

Testing At Disney's World of Color

2010-01-20T01:21:57Z

I'm a sucker for Son et lumière shows, and Disney's working on a big one: World of Color. Via the Chip and Co blog, comes this video:

Large Scale Sensing Surface at Citytech

2010-01-16T18:15:48Z

Crazy Desert Winds at the Unveiling of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo

2010-01-11T13:00:08Z

As you know, in addition to being an entertainment technology geek, I'm also a geek about the weather (lots of entries and photos here). In addition to chasing severe weather on purpose (see here and here), I've seen lots of crazy stuff working about 15 years of various shows outdoors (mostly Met Opera, NY Philharmonic, and Tribeca Film Festival Drive In)--movie screens damaged, water logged, little gustnados knocking down chairs, rainbows, you name it. But nothing like this: