http://www.toasterlab.com/blog Working in Theater. With a focus on Lighting Design. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:19:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm entirely certain that calling someone an elitist and meaning it in a pejorative way, is an act of elitism. If to be an elitist you need outstanding abilities of some variety isn't that a good thing? http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2008/10/02/elitism/ Read Beyond Civilization going back and forth on the LA Subway (wouldn't you know) to downtown. It's interesting in the fact that the LA Subway is one of the few rail systems I've been on that is as class reinforced as the Bus System and that Beyond CIvilization (BC) sort ... http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2008/07/28/about-beyond-civilization/ I recently graduated from graduate school in Valencia, California, north of Los Angeles. There is a Fedex Kinko's location in Stevenson Ranch that I go to for anything I can't print myself. As a designer I regularly print things oversize and they have a great oversized laser printer. Usually I ... http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2008/06/15/my-new-york-printing-adventure/ I have an iPhone. I have a MacBook. I have used Apple handware for the great majority of things since about 1994. I can use PCs, I used to have a second tower PC for database and AutoCAD. I don't anymore because my MacBook runs XP at the same time ... http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2008/04/01/make-my-lights-all-gui/ Dear Theater Communities. You do not live in isolation. You and those with whom you went to theater school with are not benefitting anyone by closing off your community to others (individual or communities). Theater is not a race, though a little friendly competition should drive you to try and up ... http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2007/12/02/an-open-letter-to-the-theater-community/ For business I have two computers. i have an apple notebook which is my primary computer that I take all over the place and I have an emachines tower that doesn't go anywhere but runs the PC only programs I use (AutoCAD, Access). Recently, mainly for the PC, I purchased ... http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2007/05/17/why-come/ I haven't written in a while, mainly because of what I want to write about today. A play called Silver Circus. It is by Alana Libertad and directed by Matthew Wilder. I've been producing. It's been a lot of work and I wonder where it looks like it paid off ... http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2007/03/09/scilver-scircus/ Anything but a single payer system is not sustainable. http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2007/01/24/health-care-for-all/ The Lion King is a show about a cyc. Insofar as lighting is concerned it is. I went on Tuesday night to a performance of the Lion King at the Pantages. Don Holder, who heads the lighting program at CalArts had gotten a group of us complimentary tickets, which is ... http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2006/11/23/the-show-about-the-cyc/ I saw The Light in the Piazza this last weekend. I went with Justine and some of her work friends. I sat far away, as per usual for me when at the Ahmanson. It was pretty, certainly. There was a scene in the first act which had a very clever ... http://www.toasterlab.com/blog/2006/11/21/something-about-the-way-the-light-hits-you-makes-you-look-smarter/