current mood: artistic current music: Earthsuit - Do You Enjoy the Distortion?

The Fourth of July was a bad day.

Not a bad show, mind you, and not an unhappy day spent. A bad day from a lighting perspective.

The rig was fine, focus went fast, even though I cut into the soundcheck a bit, so...

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current mood: geeky current music: Charlie Hall - Walk the World

If you don't have at least a rudimentary understanding (or even the slightest interest in) of programming lighting consoles and moving lights, this post will probably be extremely boring.

A while ago while at Bandit, I was fortu...

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San Francisco is weird. I won’t elaborate.

Tour is going well - everybody seems to be getting along well, which is great, though I think we’ll all be happy for a few well-deserved day off back in Nashville next week. I’ve learned that it’s important to keep myself occupied with lighting stuff, or...

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Greets from Hanover, Maryland, where it's stupid hot.

Tour is going well. Last night was the biggest show that I've ever done, in front of an audience of about 25,000 people. We were an opening act, so the rig and the stage weren't mine to completely control. All the opening acts had a video wal...

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I found my fire, by the way. Now that I'm back designing and doing stuff, not just grinding out repaired fixtures or cleaning dichroic glass all day, I feel much better.

Tour is going well. Actually, "tour" is a bit of a misnomer, since it's more of a string of one-offs and festival dates. It's...

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