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I used to think the idea of aliens having human zoos was horrifying but honestly if a bunch of aliens want to watch me sit and watch Netflix all day in a cozy little environment where I don’t have to pay for rent or food and they have human-specialist doctors on hand as needed, IDK, like. I’d be all right with it.

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kittens are so fucking stupid & i love them

hellenhighwater

thats not stupid, that’s The Dream

heartsnbruises

tired: breakfast in bed.

Wired: Breakfast IS bed.

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happy monday you animals live chaotically and enjoy some words of wisdom from my girlfriend

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Favorite Designs (that I have NOT seen in person):

1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Lee Savage

2. Jack Goes Boating- David Korins

3. The Importance of Being Earnest- Walt Spangler

4. The Violet Hour- Chris Barreca

5. Desire Under the Elms- Walt Spangler

6. The Secret Garden- Heidi Ettinger

7. Les Liaisons Dangereuses- Scott Pask

8. Carousel- Bob Crowley

9. Don Giovanni- Christopher Oram

10. Porgy and Bess- Sergei Soudeikine

angrybagel

im going to make sets like this one day hell yeah

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What A Great Idea!

This billboard is made of 2,000 cheeseburgers that anyone can take for free.

This bag of chips has two perforations so you can open it more the further down you eat.

This pill bottle lid tells you when you last opened it.

This is a phone charging station where you can pedal to get power.

Trash bins in Copenhagen are angled so cyclists can toss their trash while biking.

This dressing room has labeled hooks to help you separate your clothes.

Choose a cup and let everyone know about your current status.

Doghouses near a supermarket in Copenhagen.

There’s a special place for your pet in this supermarket cart.

A cafe in Poland provides its guests with water for their pets.

These bananas are sorted by how ripe they are at the moment.

This pharmacy has a magnifying glass so people can read medicine labels more easily.

This pizza place has a display with all their pizza sizes and how large they are compared to each other.

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Big Dave

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reblog to have Big Dave bless your dash with user centered design

Calling All Theatre Designers, Technicians, Artists.

Submit your portfolios, plots, paperwork, and other design resources to share with young designers!

Howdy Everyone,

I've been thinking a lot about ways to contribute to displaying a high quality of work for young designers to look to as inspiration, be it for creating paperwork, presenting a portfolio, or otherwise displaying their work.

If you feel inclined to upload your work, please know that this will be in a public dropbox folder (as listed below), so censor information (contact info/addresses) as you see fit.

The intent of this project is to create a crowdsourced resource for students, professionals, or interested parties to gain an insight into how we work; this will not be used commercially.

Feel free to upload files however you'd like. I'll go through and rename/reorganize files into a structure that is easy to navigate for all.

Upload Link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/FLuK962gsDHtU336djuI

Folder Link (If this gets revised, I'll post an update): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i31752fyc6sid1l/AACOw-NLOJkjabsOBUuEY1nqa?dl=0

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me on here or email me at hfreni (at) harrisonfreni.me

Thanks :)

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Y’all I need some advice.

For the first time ever, I’ll be all alone for my birthday in a new city, where I don’t have many similar aged friends.

I’ll be in NYC for a lighting internship, and turning 19, so I can’t really go out to bars per se.

How the heck do you spend your birthday alone?

#lxblr #advice #internship

literary-witches

Currently crying into my cereal

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Y E S

Hot take:

Eos Focus Palettes & Beam Palettes are useless, and are notepads at this point.

Storing Focus and Beam to Presets >>>>>

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oswako

Usually I just watch techblr from the sidelines but the TD just gave us this and said “here’s your board flamingo” and ??????

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Ah congrats on getting your board flamingo!

It’s a red letter day in every board op’s career when they get their flamingo. I’ll always remember mine fondly. You hope and hope and work hard and wait and dream of that day, that exact moment. You play it out in your head a million times and you think you know how you’re going to react. You think, I’m going to be super chill about it. I’m not going to be one of those crying board ops that they show embarrassing videos of at parties. But nope. Oh, I bawled. I was taken completely by surprise. I was not expecting it to happen at all. But in hindsight it was perfect and I wouldn’t change it for the world.

So congrats on becoming official! And for those of you out there that haven’t gotten yours yet: don’t fret. Your efforts will pay off and you will get your own board flamingo eventually.

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Hey, I've never done summerstock before and I seem to remember you posting something helpful last year? Any pointers on where to start?

Absolutely! For starters the best time to start applying is December (sometimes November depending on the place…). Some places have all their people by March, some places hire in March at conferences.

First off here’s my run-down on what a Summerstock is.

And my Applying for Tech Theatre Jobs post.

And reasons why you shouldn’t take an unpaid internship.

The easiest way to hunt down a summerstock is Offstagejobs.com (job postings all over the place, hooray) or SETC (South Eastern Theatre Conference) to be honest where there’s Job Contact Services. (Here’s my post on Tech Theatre conferences).

Other than those two formal ways you can find jobs by:

Going though the list of LORT theatres, going to each website and finding their jobs or employment pages

Going to the websites of theatres in area you want to work in and doing the same

Emailing any of those companies you can’t find an employment page for and asking if they have summer employment for the department you’re looking for.

Looking through the list of companies going to SETC Job Contact Services and doing the same

Summerstocks I know of that you can apply to:

Santa Fe Opera

Glimmerglass

Goodspeed Musicals

Hangar Theatre

Theatre at Monmouth

STAGES St. Louis

Central Piedmont Community College Summer Theatre

Utah Shakespeare Festival

Contemporary American Theatre Festival

Shenandoah Theatre (Not sure if that’s their full name?)

etc.

Word of warning, Summerstocks that are in the Berkshires of Mass. have a reputation for working you ridiculously hard, long hours for little pay. Their upside is they have Yale Designers and lower list celebrities in their shows. (I do not think those things are worth the shit they put you through personally). The theatre companies I know of up there that are better than the rest are Shakespeare & Co. (heard good things about this place from people who’ve worked there) and Barrington Stage (your hours are still very long, but they aren’t as bad as some of the other companies). I would caution people to stay away from Berkshire Theatre Festival as they put you in a moldy barn, your hours are out of control, pay isn’t good enough for what you’re doing there, they are broke, internet and phone service is terrible, and they have little or no regard for safety of their employees. While I have heard some people love Williamstown, it’s also an easy location to BURN OUT at. They have almost no days off, long work day hours, and low pay. Almost no theatres in the Berkshires have overtime too.

I also caution against working at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey as one of their interns because it’s in a wealthy area (everything costs lots), they don’t pay their interns anything, and sometimes even make them pay for housing. Stay away from unpaid internships or places they make YOU PAY THEM. There’s a lot of summer work out there if you’re looking.

Remember when choosing a summerstock consider the following:

Pay

Housing (If they aren’t providing it, they best be paying you enough for you to afford your own housing. Most places do provide housing.)

Travel Expenses (Some places cover these, just ask if they do!)

Work Hours (Ask them about overtime if they anticipate you working long hours)

What you’ll be expected to do in your position

When you’re free (Summerstocks typically start around May and go to June, July, or August, you can negotiate start dates, but if you’re free for their whole season you’re more likely to get the gig. If you’re in school you may want to talk to your professors about the possibility of leaving early and getting all your work done early to take a summer gig.)

What you personally want to get out of the summer (Experience? Money? Diversity of Experience?)

Hope this helped!

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Submit To A Book

Hi there! I am writing a book, “College Theatre”, that I hope will help young practitioners find the right path to continue their education/career after high school. My philosophy within the piece is that no SINGLE mentor, educator, or practitioner has the ‘right answer’ nor is any single answer right for everyone. This book will feature as many perspectives and straight-forward answers as I can obtain. This is where I’d like your help. I have set up questions for those willing to help me by volunteering answers based on your unique individual experience. I can send them to you via a Google Form. By providing detailed and specific answers, I strongly believe that readers will gain a more concise sense of awareness. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in or you have any further questions, please let me know! Thanks again and I hope to hear from you soon! Roman

Software Version: VWX 2018.1 This is my first jump into recording anything of this type; I will be making some real tutorials. Contact Me at: hfreni@harrison...

So like, this isn’t a full-on tutorial or anything, but I’m laying the framework in, and will definitely revisit this in the future to offer a more in-depth tutorial on how to create multipart fixtures. There’s no audio, but expect something new and good in the next 30 days!

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