The lovely rainy time that is the change of guards from summer to winner. As the drizzle sets in I unloaded a truck with Erik and Joel. We moved the parts of the beast into the theatre. Hung 55 fixtures, cabled, colored, and wrung out the system in less than seven hours. So we did roughly a light every 7 minutes. My show has loaded into the black box, and I sit and wait to see if the actors will have as smooth a transition as I did. While programming the light console, I stopped to think about the interconnection of the micro processor. We designed a piece of technology which operates as one being, but cannot survive without the sum of its whole. In a way, my electrics team was like the semi conductors in that micro processor.
I also just finished reading Arsenic and Old lace which I will be working next week. The script is adorable, and brings forth a lot of humor which I did not formally give the 1940’s credit for possessing. I have decided to do my own electrics work at this theatre till the end of the quarter to foster a good rainy day fund. The thought does shake me slightly as doing my own electrical work is not my forte’.
I am pleased to say the co-habitation experiment is going well. I have recently discovered a small passion for cooking, and link it to the feeling I get as a designer. I feel that anyone who can create something in this society is like a modern day magician. So the gifts we have, be it singing, cooking, painting, or designing are special and inherently sacred.
I feel that my current life is very fostering of this energy, and I find myself barreling forward and It makes me laugh, as I dance home through the city streets at night with my mp3 player in my hand.