"Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Miller wrote:
> > Wow. Another highly talented person joining a highly talented list :)
> >
> > I was a technical theatre major (if you ever need to know the difference
> > between Bongo Blue and Steel Blue, in terms of tone, flavor, usage,
> > wavelength or candlepower, I'm you're go-to guy), went to cooking school
> > for a semester but left before it completely killed my love of cooking,
> > and then a friend said, "Hey, you've got the Internet on your computer,
> > right?" Well, that was 1995 - and I've been "doing that Internet thing"
> > ever since. :)
>
> Ah! Another Recovering Theatre Person! I've always preferred the Roscolux
> light straw myself (gel #11, IIRC - I've misplaced my old swatch book).
We did quite a large number of rock shows in my local, so we had this
crazy assortment of really saturated colors, then a standard "dramatic"
pallete that consisted of 3 colors - steel blue, bastard amber, and
funny pink.
I always wanted a job making up the names for colors :)
> Of
> course, my light designs tended towards the warmer colors, but that's just
> my style. Where'd you go to school?
My actual design work tended, oddly enough, toward the more harsh,
industrial look - metal scaffolding, simple sets, etc, with dramatic
lighting that tried to be dynamic (when I had the resources for it... my
current favorite lighting book: Stage Lighting in the Boondocks
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566080177 *grin*)
I went to a teeny tiny little "alternative" school - Goddard College -
which just happens to be at the nexus of several great old turn
1890's-era opera houses, theatres, and stages built by the Italian
immigrants to the area... northern Vermont is also the big destination
for several music festivals and the like... surprisingly, it was
relatively easy to make a living..
-j-
