 Written by Phil Gilbert Phil will act as your technology evangelist and guardian angel, keeping your take on the industry fresh and vital while bringing you the perfect balance of fact-checking perfectionists and raving lunatics. He's both.
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Jul 24, 2007 at 11:00 AM |
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As I write to you, oh ardent citizens of Technopolis, movers surround me, putting most of my worldly possessions in the back of a truck.
It reminds me, surprisingly not, of a load-out.
For the next week, these brown cardboard boxes will travel roughly eight hundred miles, en route from the Windy City to the Big Apple. (Those of you in NYC, don't hesitate to drop me a line, as I will soon be your newest neighbor.)
So, since things are a little busy in the Gilbert household, I thought I'd shower you with a few random thoughts and a little link-love.
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Apr 25, 2007 at 10:00 AM |
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Mar 15, 2007 at 06:00 PM |
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I’m on a show site in Palm Springs right now.
I’m getting married in a little more than a week.
The producer wants to know why (with my meager budget) I don’t have more lights for the cyc.
The band wants to use the CD player so that they don’t have to learn the music for my first dance with my (soon-to-be) wife.
The video guys want to know why I have so many lights on the cyc.
And my dad (for some reason) thinks all of this is happening a week early.
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Feb 28, 2007 at 11:00 PM |
In this month’s Technopolis, you hopefully found me expounding on the virtues of (actually) reading a User’s Manual.
I’m sitting in the Tennessee Theatre, watching the tail-end of a load-out from the front-row seats. As I sit here hoping that the trucks would magically load themselves, I go over the week’s gig in my head and am reminded of one of my most common uses of a manual on-site.
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Feb 15, 2007 at 02:00 PM |
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For whatever reason, intercom seems to be a no-man’s-land of technology for many of us. This is probably for a couple of reasons. The first and foremost is that most of us don’t consider it part of our technical field. We figure ‘sound runs through it’, so the sound guy should be in charge of it. Sound guys don’t want to run any more cables, so they think the lighting guys should do it. [Did I say that?] Secondly, many production companies (including one of my old haunts) categorize this as a light crew’s responsibility. This probably stems from the fact that we end up needing a lot more stations than the sound crew, and possibly that we’re better at coiling cables properly. [Where did that come from?]
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Feb 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM |
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Almost everyone of us has a workbox or gig-bag that goes out with us to every show. What form your gig-bag takes can vary quite a bit. For an international man of mystery or hot shot Video Director, it may be a simple computer bag, with your favorite kewpie doll sharing a compartment with the most important weapon in your arsenal, your laptop. On the other end of the spectrum, the road-hardened lighting tech may have a twelve-hundred pound fully-customized thirteen-drawer double-hardened triple-galvanized welded-steel-frame road case that is designed with the perfect truck pack in mind.
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