John's Entertainment Technology Blog

Sunday
07Feb2010

Tech Table on Lifehacker

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:

The system is run from Watchout and controlled by a grandMAIt's not clear from any of the materials I found who actually did the projection design, does anyone know?   According to commenter Daniel Brodie, Mark Novick did the projection design.  Lighting Design is credited to David Smith.

Saturday
06Feb2010

Snow Drift Time Lapse

Well we didn't get much snow, but I caught what fell as it drifted on my roof:

Of course, we had a bit more last time (and that video now has more than 48,000 views).  This video is the first that I shot with my D90 in my prototype home-made weather resistant enclosure:

Friday
05Feb2010

Geek Recursion

This makes me laugh:

Via Geeks Are Sexy

Wednesday
03Feb2010

Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie

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:

Sunday
31Jan2010

Fun In Vermont

Had a great weekend in Vermont with NOLS NYC,  here's a few pics:

More photos here.