Section: Humor

SeaChanger Open Mic Contest at #USITT

This years Conference and Stage Expo is going to be one huge party and learning fest to help celebrate the 50 years for USITT.  SeaChanger is adding to the fun by having an Open Mic Contest in their booth at USITT. Following the American Idol method, SeaChanger would like to see or hear your 5 [...]

Monday Morning YouTube Awesomeness

Happy Monday everyone!  To help get over the hour of sleep that we lost this weekend, I have found some awesome and hilarious YouTube videos to help brighten the beginning of your work week. Just think, after today, there are only four more days left in the week! Just like Monty Python says, Look on [...]

Day 1 of #SETC and the Tech Mixer

I am down in Lexington, KY this week for the Southeastern Theatre Conference, or SETC.  Talk about just an awesome conference.  Schools, Festivals and employers from around the country converge on SETC every year looking for students to work during the summer and possibly future.  Then of course there are the actors an dancers running [...]

iSquint Podcast: Episode 5 – Zeroing In On the ORB

I had a chance to spend the day with Peter Kirkup, the Product Manager for Zero 88 and the ORB lighting desk a few weeks ago. It was the same day as the #DCLighting Tweetup that Peter and I co-sponsored at Murphy’s Grand Irish Pub in Old Town Alexandria. Right before the hoards of [...]

Dr. DMX YouTube Channel

Jfleenor, a user on the ControlBooth.com just recently put up a post about Dr. DMX, better known as Doug Fleenor from Dour Fleenor Design.  Jfleenor is actually Janell Fleenor, Doug’s Daughter and Master DMX Blender from LDI 2009.
Janell posted over at the ControlBooth about DFD, (Doug Fleenor Design) latest adventures, the Dr. DMX YouTube Channel.  [...]

Awesome Laser Video from #LDI2009 by @pkirkup

I just saw a great YouTube video from Peter Kirkup from Cooper Controls via @pkirkup about how lasers are coming back. If you were on the show floor, there was no way you could miss the laser effects going on over heard.  Peter put together a great video compilation with cut aways that are fantastic!
Great [...]

What’s on Your iPhone?

We all love out little friend the iPhone and iPod touch.  Why, because it makes our lives so much easier… sometimes! When Apple opened up third Party applications on the iPhone, our favorite personal communicator became even more powerful and useful in the entertainment industry.  Lighting applications started to show up quick and have been [...]

Happy Halloween Everyone!

On this the day before Allhallow’s day or better known as All-Saints Day, (November 1), we take a moment and carve out pumpkins to help scare of Stingy Jack and wandering evil spirits on this Halloween night.  Here is a little more history of Stringy Jack and the tradition of pumpkin carving.
People have been making [...]

Stuck On Now – Englert Civic Theatre, Iowa City

Take a look at who we are Stuck On now!  Will Brown, (@willbb123), our Tuesday Twitter Trivia winner from a couple of weeks ago sent us a couple of photos with iSquint stickers around the Englert Civic Theatre in Iowa City. Thanks Will for sending the photos over!  Have some photos of our iSquint stickers?  [...]

JR Clancy Rigging Report: The Ghost Light

This weeks JR Clancy Rigging Report brings us yet another Superstition that we theatre people take to heart, the Ghost Light. While the Ghost Light has a practical use while the stage is dark, there is a deeper meaning behind it.
Most theatres have a ghost. This fact is known from high schools in Iowa to [...]

JR Clancy Rigging Report: Theatrical Superstitions & Missing Catalogs

This months JR Clancy Rigging Report mentions something that almost every person in theatre knows about, but talks very little about it, Theatrical Superstitions.  Why do we do such things?  Why does a pitcher on a winning streak on wash hit uniform?  It’s all about doing what ever it takes to keep winning or to [...]

Focus Tape: The Music Video

This great clip was “produced” by the electricians at Santa Fe Opera on how they focus lights for the 2009 season. Thanks guys, and great job!
Happy Friday and Labor Day weekend Everyone!