Category: Commercial theatre
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The Promise Of Digital 3D
Seems to have been either unfulfilled or broken – depending upon the amount of investment that the users have entered into. The old film 3D is as dead as Kodachrome and TDC. Even the retrothusiasts are unable to make or find the copious amounts of materials needed to manufacture 3D slides and any enjoyment of…
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Playing At Soldiers
I’ve done it, and done it well with colours flying and drums a’beating. All the thrill of battle with blank cartridges. Campaign for the day and home for tea at night. Silly? Childish? Pointless? Well, you can form your own opinion and welcome to it; I found it fascinating, and did not take any harm…
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The 2024 Self Promotion Awards
Brought to you by the MegaMouth Corporation – photography’s own network, broadcasting 26 hours each day on anything that can plug into a light socket. Now with added Niacin for a glossy coat. Photographers are required by the Commonwealth to register their advertising under the Noxious Substances Act ( 1934 ). This is a precaution…
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If You Can Take A Step Back…
You may not be mowed down by the AI juggernaut…or at least not the one piloted by Adobe. I like the Adobe products I use…older copies of both Lightroom and Photoshop plus a decade-old Photoshop Elements program – long ago bought and installed. Yet I see there is a North American fuss being made about…
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The Spaghetti Contract
Occasionally someone will offer you a contract that looks like a plate of spaghetti. It will be complex, interwoven, and covered in a red meat sauce. You may get cheese…you will certainly get covered in splashes. Wear old clothes. Some clients want a specific thing, can state it clearly, and will not change their minds…
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Broken Biscuits Are Just As Tasty
Just messier to eat. And art and hobby groups are fine in themselves when the are all over the place…but sometimes you wish they would get together for a big show. I find this with both the dance world and the little world. There are a any number of special-interests groups hived off from each…
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Personal Neglect
Can lead to spectacular embarrassment. No, I’m not referring to the washroom and fly incident. That was an accident. I mean the business of neglecting to eat and drink properly and then keeling over from exhaustion at the end of a stressful day. Yes, it happened to me, and yes, I am embarrassed about it.…
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And That Is Why
A perfect illustration of illustration yesterday. I went to Costco yesterday – we needed to add my name to the family account. Apparently there is a need for 5 cubic metres of chili corn chips… The request was handled in three minutes at the membership desk. My name, a glance at a driver’s licence to…
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Adverenticement
My new word for the stuff that streams over the screen. I have just seen an advertisement for the snowfields of Whistler, British Columbia in the dead of winter. Skiers whistling down and wonderful sights everywhere. But the Canadian weather bureau says that it is 20º in Whistler now and raining. It is June. So…