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Apparently, this place has been featured on "Mythbusters", but I can't seem to find the episode. It's full of surplus left over (and still coming in) from the very heavy research done at the atomic laboratory that Los Alamos was founded on. The Black Hole is in an old grocery store, and there's thousands of square feet of storage space, and it's floor to ceiling. These photos will be in

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Let's focus 350 lights in 90 minutes! Wait, what? Yeah, it's crazy. Before focus, strips of cloth with markings every foot are laid out on the downstage edge of the stage (stage left to right), as well as another going from down-center to up-center. There's another stage-left-right strip at center-stage. They're called "focus tape", and yes, it was the inspiration for this video. Two

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Another recipe! This time, stuffed chicken. No picture of the recipe for this one, it was pretty simple in the book: Slice a chicken breast lengthwise, stuff with mozzarella cheese, top with spaghetti sauce, bake for an hour. I had some leftover onion and pepper from the meatloaf, and since I love pepper and onion, I thought I'd added it to the mix. The garlic fries are from Trader Joe's, and

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We're about to open our fifth and final show of the season, "Albert Herring". I don't know a ton about it, since it rehearses during the day, and my calls are typically at night to run the shows already open. But today is a day off. I was awoken today by my roommate's alarm BLARING at 8:30am. It must have fallen between the bed and the wall, so it took him a few minutes to get it, and finally

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It's hard to keep up writing every day when there's little new to write about. We're wrapping up the rehearsals for our third show, "Tales of Hoffmann", which opens tonight. This week has been a myriad of change-overs: During the day, our fourth show, "Life is a Dream", rehearses on-stage. After, we've done a different show almost every night: Monday: Hoffmann Piano Dress Rehearsal Tuesday:

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Both Magic Flute and Madame Butterfly performances went very well. Both only had one extra apprentice, so a lot of monitor shifts keep that extra person busy. For Madame Butterfly, some of the movements happen simultaneously, which means I need to leave the Control Room. I'm not supposed to do that, but I don't have a choice, since the movements need to take place. I usually take a wireless

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Hi everybody, Tonight we began technical rehearsals for our fifth show of the season, "Albert Herring". I wasn't scheduled to start until 5pm, but I had to ride in with stage crew to be on time, which arrived around 3pm. Caitlin wants to put up photos that i've taken for her new apartment, so I figured I would shoot some more. I haven't gone out and just photographed around town, and the ranch

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Tonight was the second performance of "Madame Butterfly". Most of my paperwork is dialed in, and i'm getting the chance to relax and focus on the show, rather than everything around it. This will be the fifth time we've run this show (including dress rehearsals). The intercom calls become crisp and the conductor seems much calmer, enjoying himself fully. In our control room above the sound board

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Day 35 was the fourth of July! But since I don't have a car or bike, I couldn't really go to any displays, so it was pretty much a normal day off. I slept in a good bit, because the day before was a long 15 hour day on 5 hours of sleep. The bus wasn't running because it was a holiday, and most businesses were closed. I was trapped! Actually, I went out to Trader Joe's a picked up a few things,

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Compared to other days, today started very early: 9am. There was a development meeting with potential donors, and today we did backstage tours and demonstrations. A/V was needed for two reasons: A projector and screen were needed for a slideshow, and a closed-circuit video feed was needed, so donors could stand on-stage and watch an effect, while also watching the TV to see what really happens

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It's opening night! Now I start to feel the energy of the theatre pick up. Everything is neat and clean throughout the house, ready for a sold-out paying crowd of anxious patrons. As we drive through the main parking lot of the theatre to get to the staff parking, we notice lots of tables with full linens and china on them. In the PARKING LOT. It's explained to me that the patrons who regularly

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The front gates of the theatre as a storm rolls in from the south. Welcome to the wonderful world of Dress Rehearsals. In my experience (at Towson), a dress rehearsal is a full run of the show, no (or few) stops, with costumes and mostly-complete lighting. All of the components come together, and we see how the puzzle pieces fit before it goes in front of an audience. At Towson, we do this

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I had asked around before I came out to New Mexico what it would be like to go running at a much higher altitude. I kept hearing "pace yourself and drink lots of water". So about a week ago I decided to take a run. I had been waiting to buy new running shoes, but I'm not gonna have the disposable income to do that for a while now, and the shoes I have aren't completely done for (yet). So I laced

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The days are starting to blur together; going in around 5pm, and getting home past midnight. Saturday was a day off for me, and even though I didn't do much, i'm going to tell you about my trip to the southern part of Santa Fe, which I did Thursday or Friday. There's only so much to do within reasonable walking distance of the Axton Apartments (reasonable for me is a mile and a half / 30

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Today is the first dress rehearsal of "Madama Butterfly", with a piano instead of the full orchestra. Even without an orchestra, the rehearsal is considered a real performance, with makeup and costume calls, places calls, and a strict timeframe for all departments. My first task was to get wireless intercom up and running, because electrics crew needed to begin focusing. Once that was set up, I

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Thursday was another technical rehearsal, this time it was the first for "The Tales Of Hoffmann". Since the next day was the piano dress rehearsal for "Madama Butterfly", I had a lot of work to get ready ("Butterfly" is the show that i'm the audio-video pointman for). The technical rehearsals are hands-off from an A/V perspective, so it gave me time to finalize things for the piano dress the next

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Lots to write about, both from late nights. Saturday is a day off for me, so i'll write about Thursday (with pics) and Friday's first dress rehearsal of "Madama Butterfly", lots to talk about! -Matt

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Hi everyone. Two lighting sessions, two shifts from 5pm to 1am. Yesterday was the lighting session for our fourth show, "Life is a Dream". The set has these cool, mechanical fingers that flip up out of the walls, and do all sorts of neat lighting effects. Here are some photos from the lighting session: Looking towards the audience from the back of the stage. Two lighting supervisors

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I haven't forgotten about you all, I promise. Writing every day is hard when there's little to write about. Yesterday (Sunday) was a "half-day" for me, so before work the A/V team headed to Karl's Mother-in-Law's house for a cook-out. It was nice to get out the Axton, and not some place that I walk to. It was a gorgeous house with some very friendly pets. We pigged out on barbecue ribs, pasta

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Padlocks with designs or initials are locked into a stone divider near the Santa Fe Railyard. An artistic take on vandalism, it's actually quite nice. It's diverse, with every lock having a different design and pattern drawn on it. Today was another day off! What am I going to do with myself? I cleaned the apartment for a bit, while chatting with Caitlin. After Caitlin went to work, I

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I jumped into the future in yesterday's post, but I came back around, and corrected "Day 20" to "Day 18". Today is Day 19. You're welcome. The production schedule listed today as "Butterfly RT", meaning a full run-through of "Madame Butterfly". Although i'm not sure why, Allan and I are the only A/V folk scheduled today. The Boss was also scheduled, but i've learned he likes a hands-off approach

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All the images are clickable. When you click, don't forget about the "All Sizes" button just above the image on it's Flickr page, to get a larger version Today is a 5pm-2am shift again, this time it's the third technical rehearsal for "Madame Butterfly", where i'm told all of the technical elements start to come together. Since "Butterfly" is the show i'm in charge of, I need to be here to make

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I realized I haven't shown you the theatre from this angle. Boring, I know. I'm in at 5pm for tech rehearsal, so i'll try and make up for it!) Today we kicked butt! We had a worklist ready for us when we walked in, which included a bunch of the roof/catwalk tasks that i've been wanting to finish. We finally relocated the wireless intercom antenna (moving it closer to the audience, so we have

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Sorry, I don't have a picture today. I didn't have time to break out the camera. I also vowed not to take "snapshots", but also compose something. It's getting trickier to find a composition, but I will keep trying. Another chilly day, and some more long-term project work. Not a big post today, as I keep forgetting to write down what i'm working on so I can come back and write about it. We set

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Some more of the Santa Fe Railyard. There are so many train tracks around, there must have been a huge rail infrastructure here, but it's curious now there's only one regular train passing through. What happened? It was a chilly morning. More often i'm wearing jeans then shorts, but today it was a jeans plus my UnderArmour fleece. Today was another clean-up, small task day. One project that's

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The Santa Fe Railyard is a fairly desolate place, I think it's simply a turn-around point for the Rail Runner. There's a pretty neat brewery nearby, though, as well as an REI and a Borders bookstore. Today was a good day. I still started off lazily, doing wake-up calls with Caitlin and chatting with her while she started her day, then reading for an hour or so. I've been consistently getting

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Do you know how lazy today was? I don't even have a photo. I'm so ashamed. I slept in today, and Caitlin woke me up with a phone call (i'll never object to that). She was on her way to a baby shower, so I chatted with her while she drove. After that, I watched some Hulu and "Weeds", and grabbed some lunch. England and the United States in the World Cup! GREENE MISSED THE BALL! U.S. SCORES!

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I really did make the Dean's list. How about that? I didn't believe it at first until I received this: Awesome. Let's see if I can do it again next semester. -Matt

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Lighting instruments patiently wait as rehearsal continues on-stage for the remainder of the week. Tonight, more than half a dozen lighting technicians will re-focus every instrument in the space for technical rehearsals. Today was a moderately-productive day. Most of our big projects are either completed, or can only be complete when there's no activity on stage. Since we're neck-deep in

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The "roof" of the Santa Fe Opera: The catwalk system contains 8 or 9 catwalks (this is looking down the access walkway, with the catwalk entrances along the right side. Today continues to be a day of small projects, since very little can be done while there is a rehearsal on-stage. My first project was to install a B-lift camera in the catwalks. The B-lift can rise above the stage level by

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Hi all, There's a lot I want to write about today, unfortunately the 3 hours of sleep i got last night have caught up with me, and i'm headed to bed early. I'll do my best to get today's post up by lunch tomorrow. -Matt

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I don't nearly have enough energy to talk about the technical rehearsal process, or how the entire environment of the theatre changes when the sun goes down. But I promise I will elaborate more in a future post. It's definitely something to write about. -Matt

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My first sunset "on the clock", a timelapse of this sunset can be found by clicking here Still in Day 10, it's currently 1:53am. We're in technical rehearsals for "The Magic Flute". But here's how the day began... I got a text from Mom talking about some mail I had received, and one was from Towson University. Thinking she could take care of whatever it was from home, she opened it. It said

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The stage manager's console, my work for the past few days. The video screens all feed back to the control room. The stage manager also has full intercom, paging, cue light and house light control. Today was a continuation of yesterday's cable pull. As a recap, we needed to get a bunch of video cables from the stage left wing (the control room) to the stage right wing (the stage manager's

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I was exhausted coming home day, and spent the night cooking meals. I'll get it up soon!

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Underneath the stage lives a room that the high New Mexico heat never reaches. The dimmer room serves power to all lighting fixtures throughout the theatre, its nine racks (holding 600+ dimmers) feed an array of lighting instruments in every nook and cranny surrounding the stage (and sometimes on it, too). Today was a day of frustration. I'll get to that, but first… Today was the first day

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Dark storm clouds threaten the theatre from the southeast, while the sunset washes over with brilliant amber from the west. Today was my first day off, and let me say, I don't like days off. When I leave my girlfriend, my car, and my family, jump two time zones, i'm ready to work. Let's work! It stems from my need to be productive. I don't feel productive on days off; maybe it's the

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Santa Fe and ABQ's commuter train, the Rail Runner. The station is about 1/3 mile from my apartment, giving easy access to the much larger city of Albuquerqe Abquerque Albuquerque Today was the second half of Safety Day, with a lecture from Monona Rossol. Her four hour lecture covered LOTS of interesting material, safety with chemicals, toxicity, hazardous materials, and so on. She openly

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The "Basement", under the back deck. The scenery for each show is stored here, in it's own "cut". The "cuts" are the spaces between the cement support pillars. "Takes of Hoffman" is in the nearest cut, followed by "Magic Flute", then "Madame Butterfly". The "B" lift is off-camera right, which goes from the basement to the stage level. Today is Safety Day! The morning was filled with in-depth

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A rough panoramic: the "back deck" on the left ("Day 1" photo was taken by the tables and chairs towards the middle, and the stairs on the right photo lead to the upstage part of the main deck ("Day 3" photo was taken at the bottom of Wall #3 (by those extension cables) It was cold again this morning, maybe I do need a comforter. I need to figure out how to sleep through the night,

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Stage crew does a final sweep on a completely empty deck in preparation for laying down a full-stage, wood-painted floor covering. For those unfamiliar with the weather of the southwest, it can get cold here at night. It creeps up on you at 3 a.m. and says "Hey, remember when you went to bed and it was 70 degrees? Just kidding. It's 40 degrees now!" You go to bed with as little as possible, only

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The "wind walls" outside House Left, used to block the wind from entering the house. I can't tell if they help or not. Picked up some earplugs last night, and slept much better than Sunday night. This morning we pulled the "Rovers" out of storage. They consist of a TV on a cart, with a speaker attached. They go in the four corners of the backstage (Upstage Left, DSL, USR, USL) and are fed with a

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The view off our "back deck" The first day of school. Er. Work. Picked up around 8:30am and we head up to the Opera for the first time. The drive up is brown; I don't know how else to describe it. It's dry, everywhere. We park and are introduced to the Boss, then we tour around the facility and the campus throughout the day. A "hodge-podge" is an easy way to describe the Opera. Over the decades

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So the first day went by pretty well. I got to my apartment around 3:30pm, met my roommates, dumped my stuff in the room and started making phone calls home. The apartments (Hereby referred to as the “Axton”) are Adobe-styled, two-level apartments. They form a U-shape, with a courtyard in the middle. The weather was great outside, but for some reason it was stuffy in the apartment. The

Matt G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11188933503025072425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737355691372645390.post-67191204226001566502010-05-30T16:30:00.001-06:002010-05-30T22:36:18.961-06:00

UPDATE: Landed, trying to find my shuttle...I’ve always enjoyed flying, from being really young and flying with my grandfather in hi 4-seat Piper, to flying with Alan in the Diamond, to the various trips at 30,000+. The logistics, the environment, the adventure has always fascinated me. I told myself when I was young that I would get my pilot’s license, and I still hold that hope. It’s gotten

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So I figure if i’m going to document my adventures across the country, I should set some goals for myself. It’s one thing to go and have fun and work hard, but the satisfaction of achieving at least one goal is so fulfilling. I think the summer is a short enough to keep the goals reasonable, and long enough to get significant time to invest. Here goes: Run. A lot. Or at least lots of cardio. When

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