This show ran from the 10th to today (the 15th). I was part of a two man team that ran the speaker ready room. This job was a little different – half of the computers were Mac. I was in heaven, usually my computer/s is/are the only Mac’s onsite on a gig (other than the tech’s personal computers).

The speaker ready room had four Macs networked to two Mac Servers across the hall in video world, the Windows computers had the same – me and another guy checked people in, helped them with whatever they needed, and when they were happy with the way it all ran we would shoot it over to the show computer where his sister ran graphics for the show…

If a presentation had a video in it, we backed it up: I had one Mac, and one Wintel, running to a 1024 which was outputting to a DVD Recorder. We copied the slide with the video on it (grabbing the whole slide, not just the movie itself) so if a slide had issue with a video, the video engineer could switch to the DVD backup and no one would know it (I recorded the entire slide, not just the movie within it).

My station in the Speaker Ready Room looked like this:

This ran from the 5th to the 9th – I ran camera.  We had a dark day on the 7th which was very cool – we had a crew BBQ – very rare we all get to enjoy each other outside work.  Great times!

Great production crew!!!

I don’t know what to say…  If I could re-live this day over I wouldn’t have wasted it being where I was, doing what I was doing, for who I was doing it for…           We all (the techs) just felt that we needed a shower after this one. There’s really no other way to describe it – just felt dirty…

Intentional…Fraudulent…Abominable…Prevarications – I need 5 showers, with a brillo pad, to get the goo off me…

I wish I could write more…

You have to understand something if you’re going to continue reading my posts, more than half of what I do (50-70%) I can’t say/write anything about.  Confidentiality is a big thing in our business…

Ran the preshow event for this one outside. The preshow ends at 19:00 (which is the same time doors open for the Castle show), so I have a half-an-hour to strike everything and get upstairs to run spot. After the show we struck and got out of there a little after 23:00…

I didn’t get any shots of the show (that came out) cause all the dancers wore really bright colors which just turned them into (what looked like) candles when viewing the pics.  The best example of this would be to look at the bottom right pic below – the light in that pic is just about 10% of the light inside.  Two things I have found with the iPhone camera that bother me are a) any movement at all creates a blurry pic, and b) any light that is not natural tends to make the pic suck.  Here’s a few of the preshow – before and during…

Four days of nothing but fun! I ran Graphics/Video for this thing. Setup on Tuesday, 100+ presentations Wednesday-Saturday. Great group of people though! I really enjoy this group whenever they come to Maui…

Here’s me and Mike screwing around – he was posing, not actually napping (but it would’ve been great if he was – I would’ve never let him forget it)…