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Tools of the Trade / Re: latest toys...

« on: Jun 05, 2007, 11:09 pm »

Latest toy is the three watt LED MINI MAGLITE. Looks like the old one, but still takes 2AAs but is a bit longer than the regular one- so it doesn't fit in my NITE IZE leatherman/mag belt clip. It's pretty bright though,  I would suggest it. ~$22 Home Depot.

the best thing is Maglite has come out with an adapter kit that will turn your normal minimag into an LED Minimag and keep it the same length so it still fits in any case, plus you can put a push button to turn it on... i find it so much nicer then the old way... stops randomly turning on on me...

as for sharpies... I love them... especially the silver... I don't know why I like them so much but I do....

I'm also not one of the office supplyaholics, but I do like some of the cool new toys... my problem is when I go to the Hardware store.. and that stuff is just way too expensive and fun...

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SMNetwork Archives / Re: Is part of being a Stage Manager being an artist?

« on: Jun 05, 2007, 10:29 pm »

I would say that being a Stage Manager is being an artist, but definitely a very different type, mainly because you don't take your own vision and turn it into something (hopefully) beautiful. Instead you have to take many different people's visions and creatively bring them together to create something (again hopefully) beautiful. Though for one show every one who is working on it has the same relative vision, they are still different, and you need to tie them together to form your piece of art. But it is also a craft you have to master.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Injured during tech?

« on: Jun 05, 2007, 06:58 pm »

when I was in high school, I was on deck crew for one show, had my hand run over by part of the set (luckily no broken bones just really hurt hand that I could barely move), and my they way I decided to help myself was to run into the hall, punch the wall with my other hand.. hurt that one too.. I know real smart huh... but I still got my next changes done on time... (only member of the crew to do it too)
then last Dec while I was ASM a production of Christmas Carol during our student matinée, I was really sick, so I was told to just sleep till the 5 min call and do as little as possible.
and this past semester I was ASMing Caucasian Chalk Circle, I was basically being trained to be one of the SM's next year so I was back at the tech table, and was the person the SM turned to to fix things, so I was jumping up and down a lot, going to the stage and seeing what the actors broke this time. While after our first night of tech, I was walking with the SM and the other ASM to the parking lot when we pasted our house manager, one of the set designers and one member of our costume crew playing Frisbee, and we decided to join them. At one point the set designer launched one, I went running after it, caught it and next thing I knew I was on the ground laying next to a sign that had been welded and standing 1 second earlier, I hurt my knee and my fore arm was bruised. For the rest of tech and the run, my knee would randomly hurt, so I would just limp for a second and continue on my way... prob should have done something more about it then ice and Aleve but hey... and it gave me a really cool profile pic....

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: set changes

« on: Jun 05, 2007, 11:17 am »

Personally I believe that unless it is written in the script, you should try to never have an empty stage, so I would try and have the crew finish as the actors are ready.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: What is Gaffer Tape?

« on: Jun 04, 2007, 12:09 am »

I think that that entry actually belongs here... Stage Management nightmares...literally. after all i think that is something we'd all have nightmares about...

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Tools of the Trade / Re: What is Gaffer Tape?

« on: Jun 02, 2007, 07:14 pm »

my favorite use of gaff tape is at the end of the show, after strike when you have that one, two , three... or how ever many balls of gaff tape and have either a nice game of catch or better... dodge ball with gaff tape...but I have also used it to fix my friends sandals... she looked oddly at me when i gave her that over duct tape... but now she loves it too... making its way out of theatre... little by little...

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Herbal Cigarettes and other tobacco substitutes

« on: Jun 02, 2007, 01:11 am »

ok... I can understand not allowing regular cigarettes or cigars, but not allowing a substitute... that is ridiculous