So, as promised, after such a long break from not regularly posting here we go again, still in catch-up mode but here’s what happened in the week beginning 5th April, or round about then anyway!
The Monday was a bank holiday and a day of doing entirely nothing after the crazy busy weekend of working Molly’s gig and then Shindig. I was crashing at my best mate James’s and kept continually laughing whenever I went to the bathroom to see a teddy bear with cleaning gloves on sat by the bath. Its both funny and weird, it should stay.
On the Tuesday I was back to stage one to continue development on the 3D flying system and this week was the beginnings of the custom console we need to build for this rig. Its one of those things that you can have all of the technology in the world, but when it boils down to what dimensions and spacing works for things its best to make it out of card board boxes with components stuck in them and get people to have a go. So here it is, 2 multi axis joysticks stuck into a box.
Then the following week I got the metalwork back for the first pass and fitting, and generally making sure things were going to fit inside the designed space Most things fitted but some things still needed moving around, thus the scribbled sharpie notes on the metalwork.
Later in the week, Thursday I was down London at Fiftynine productions dong some preproduction on a gig called Digital Revolution, which opens at the barbican on the 3rd July. I managed to get up and go for a run early which was ace running by the canal, such a great location.
It was a productive, challenging couple of days figuring out how to make things work, and discussion various technical elements. I can say the guys have been very busy and I’m looking forward to this gig, there’s allot of top exciting digital artists presenting pieces. Whilst going for lunch on the Friday I was walking past a park and looked over at the swings and thought, why did they design that to look like a cartoon knob, so what else could I do but take a photo.
Leaving 59 I popped my head in to the space where Richard and he chaps were filming some footage for Vivid Live which was on in Sidney Australia. 59 were doing the projected content on the opera house sails and from videos of the live event looked ace! Here a re some of the miniature Opera Houses they used to make some of the content, pretty neat! You can see a video of the event here: Vivid Live
I left London on the Friday, travelled back north on the train to York, got my car from the car park where I left it when I travelled down on the Thursday then drove to Newcastle. The next day I was a Dance City again, twice in 2 weeks where I was last minute technical cover for the Hofesh Schecter dance company who were visiting. This was less Hofesh, but Hofesh dancers presenting their own work. This was the first gig on the road of the tour (after rehearsals) and, everything, I think went well, I didn’t understand some of the pieces but I guess that’s just interpretation?
So that’s it, another week blogged, closer to almost being current, finally as the trend goes, A FACE!!!!!!!!!!!
