A St. Patrick’s Day Mission

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’s DAY everyone!  As we celebrate Ireland’s Patron Saint Patrick tonight. I have a fun little mission for those of us of age.  While partaking in your favorite beverage of choice which just might happen to be green today, take along your favorite gel swatch book. While holding up your beverage toasting to St. Patrick, locate the closes matching gel color from your swatch book and report back.  Why?  I think the correct response would have to be, Why Not?

An added bonus: If you send me a photo of your green tongue, I’ll send you a little something in return! ;) You can email those photos to me at info@isquint.net.  If they are not to “revealing”, I’ll post them here on iSquint.

As you are celebrating tonight, please, PLEASE drink responsibly and designate a driver and be safe. As I have to work later then normal tonight and can not partake in celebrating at my pub of choice, If you are in the Washington, DC area and need a DD, email or Direct Message me (@iSquint) and I will be happy to pick you up and drive you home.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

It’s December 25th, have you woken up yet and opened your presents? If not, get crackin!  I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone.  It has been one heck of a year and it’s almost over. I am going to keep this short as this is time to spend with family and friends. So turn off the computers and spend the day with those that are close to you! The interwebs will still be here tomorrow, I promise! ;)

Just in case, Visit High Voltage Productions website to see three great videos!

Thanks everyone and MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

iSquint Holiday Gift Guide for the Theatre Geek

Can you feel that?  It’s the gift giving season! There are always great gift giving guides for loved ones, kids, add all kinds of other people in our lives.  But what about the techie in all of us?

There are a bunch of cool tools and toys out there for the techie and designer in all of us.  Most of these gadgets help us do our jobs quicker and easier.  Then there are some that are just way to cool not to own and play with.

The iSquint Holiday gift Guide is just a sampleing of some ideas on what to get.  Where can you pick up these great gift ideas?  Try your local theatrical dealer. If you can’t find it there, you can certainly find it online some where.  But as today is December 7, you better hurry, you want to make sure to get your gifts in well before the celebration begins!

I have broken down the guide into three list.  One list for each type of theatre professional.  While of course there are many MANY other types of theatre professions, I am just focusing on these at the moment.  If you feel that I am missing a great gift to add to the guide, let me know if the comments section of this article.

Happy Hunting!

Techie

• The Ratcheting & Original Ultimate Focus Tool
• Focus Glass
• C-wrench
• Pin Splitter
• iPhone Lighting  apps
• Setwear Gloves
• Backstage handbook
• FireSword Flashlight
• MagLight
• Spyderco Knife
• iTunes Gift Card

Lighting Desingers

• Lux meter
• Seachanger Color Bug Meter
• Lightwright 5
• Vectorworks
• WYSIWYG

Programmers

• Enttect Programming Wings
• DMX Coffee Machine
• Swisson DMX tester

Again, these are just a sampling of gifts to get the theatre professional in your life. Am I missing something to the list? Let me know in the comments section of this post.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Today we give thanks to everything and everyone we have around us. Thanksgiving is meant for us to stop for a moment from our busy schedules, and be with the ones we love by sharing a fantastic dinner together and each others company. Whether that be watching one of the three football games on, watching the Macey’s Day Parade float down Broadway, or by sitting around and sharing stories from from the last time you were together. Let’s all sit down, enjoy a great meal and be thankful that we have each other and for everything we have.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Looking Towards Next Week

It has been one longggg week here at isquint and we can not wait to kick start our fourth of July weekend.  But alas, we still have to work.  Above it just a preview of what is to come early next week!  So everyone have a safe and happy 4th!  We’ll see you after the flash, crack pop of the fireworks.

Apollo Releases St. Patrick’s Day/Easter Gobos

The gobo masters at Apollo Design have released their 2009 gobo flier for St. Patrick’s Day and Easter in a three page PDF. There is a mix of both metal, black and white as well as color scenic (full color) gobos listed for each holiday.

For pricing and more information on Apollo’s Easter/St. Patrick’s Day gobos, contact your local Apollo Dealer. Download the St. Patrick’s Day/Easter Gobo Flyer here.