Dum Vivimus, Vivamus: Engineering in art.

3.07.2014

Engineering in art.

So, this evening we didn't have rehearsal, but we did have a bit of a work party, assembling the stage we will be working on. One of the primary features of Les Miserables is that it supposed to take place on a rotating stage...it keeps the show flowing smoothly, with no need to swap out backgrounds for different scenes.

Well, rotating stages don't put themselves together.

Yes...for all intents and purposes, it's a 26 foot 'Lazy Susan', but, in reality, it's slightly more complex than that. Especially for someone like me...I'm not exactly mechanically inclined, so watching something like this come together is impressive.

One week until opening night!

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DoomMarch 8, 2014 at 6:46 AM
You would be surprised what just being around such a work effort will do for your mechanical inclination and capacity. It's almost as much seeing, so being able to envision, things, as it is knowing how to do something. Knowledge without curiosity or interest is less useful than a will to improve or... optimize... something. Magic starts in the eye.
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"What did I want?

I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, "The games' afoot!" I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and the Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon.

I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be -- instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is."
-- Glory Road, Robert Heinlein

Why?

3.07.2014

Engineering in art.

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