26
Jul
2010
0:00 AM

You Wanna Buy Some Death Sticks?

Sparks

mood: couphy music: Orbital - Are We Here?

Can we, as a society, please come to a few agreements about the subject of smoking?

1)If you do it, you really should stop. There are many methods to help you.

2) Smoking indoors is unacceptable. You really need to stop doing this, because it makes...

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22
Jul
2010
0:00 AM

π

Sparks

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13
Jul
2010
0:00 AM

Adventures in Getting Nothing Done

Sparks

music: Vitamin String Quartet - Reckoner mood: un-accomplished

Things I am doing this week!

  • Sleeping in
  • Going to bed at 0500
  • Babysitting Eva and Scarlett for a few hours each day
  • Made Play-Dough with Eva, next she wants to make slime
  • Fixed the 'rents computer, installed AdBlock and...

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05
Jul
2010
0:00 AM

Stuff

Sparks

Okay, it's MONDAY TIME!

The tour company for BDW's upcoming tour made a lighting plot without me, and that has me somewhat annoyed. I wouldn't be so ticked if they hadn't proceeded to use it as a working plot, sending it around and using it for bids. If I'm hired to design the lights, I would re...

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30
Jun
2010
0:00 AM

Lighting Design videos - David Crowder Band

Sparks

A video I did for a band I occasionally enjoy. I'm going to do another one of their songs, then send it to them as sort of a digital business card. We'll see how it works. (Some might have already seen this. I haven't worked on the second one for a while, but I'm going to try to finish it within a f...

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About Me

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Hope you're not expecting one of those cryptic, nonsensical descriptions. Not my style.

I'm Sparks, a happy little lighting designer and (at one time) sound engineer and pyrotechnician. I don't do those jobs much anymore. For my Real Life Job, I'm a concert lighting designer. Sometimes I go on tour with some folks and do their lights, other times I design and let someone else run the show.

I've had a variety of interesting jobs - from hospital IT guy to technical director of a corrupt megachurch in Des Moines, Iowa, where I grew up. I adore live sound and concert lighting, and I never pass up an opportunity to geek out about my line of work. Generally, if it has faders, buttons, LEDs, or is a large and potentially dangerous machine, I like it. I also love children, fireworks, blueberry muffins, reading, messing around with smart home tech and goofing off. I've played the piano since I was too short to reach the pedals, and I'm learning to play the violin. I used to volunteer at a large children's hospital, but then I moved, then I moved again, and now I'd like to do it again where I live. I'm a skeptic who has no practical use for the supernatural or pseudoscientific. I'm a card-carrying member of the International I Hate Sports Club. I keep my laptop screen really, really clean, and if you touch it, I'll kill maim strongly scold you. I believe strongly in human rights and have a strongly deontological bent when it comes to my ethical outlook, and those positions strongly influence my political outlook.

When I'm not on the road, I live in Minnesota. I'd prefer not to be "on the road" anymore.

I'm easy to get along with, so tell me about yourself! If you read anything I've written (and there isn't much) and have a comment, please leave one - I love getting feedback about the stuff I write.

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