I recently installed Camino on my computer and have been using it as my main browser for a couple of days. While it does not have all the supercool extensions of Firefox, it is a hell of a lot faster. So my time on teh intrawubs has been sped up tremendously.
One of the extensions it does not have is rss integration. I had been using Sage for Firefox, which is a very nice feed aggregator. As a result I opened a Bloglines account and easily imported all my Sage feeds. Overall the transition has been very smooth indeed. Although I do sorely miss my ‘undo close tab’ extension. Oh well!
Tomorrow is the lighting load-in for Last Word. The scenery went in today I am told and as there have been no frantic emails, I assume all is well. There was a small change to the scenery this morning. Nothing big, just a slight adjustment to the rotation of the walls. So the electricians are loading in the lighting and then we focus on Tuesday and begin the technical rehearsals that evening.
The run through the other day went very well. Travanti brings an amazing energy to the room. He is also at least as much of a coffee snob as I am so we had a great time discussing beans and brews around New York. I felt it my duty to help the out of town coffee connoisseur traverse the generally bleak landscape that is New York coffee.
This afternoon I saw a run of the first act of Artfuckers. It is looking good. Eduardo and I had a nice chat about the design of the piece. Because the play is set in the new York Art and Fashion scene, we are going to utilize an fashion photography aesthetic/vocabulary to light the piece. Fashion photography is one of my loves and there is such a wide range of styles and aesthetics within it, that to say “fashion photography” does not really narrow it down at all. What it means in this instance is using certain lights that are specific to the fashion/portrait photography world, like softlights and umbrellas. These we will combine with standard theatrical lights to create a lighting vocabulary for the piece.
It is interesting that a lot of fashion photography these days is highly theatrical. Not only does the lighting and styling create dramatic scenes, but the layouts ore often such that a whole story is told like fairy tales or Film Noir or something more abstract. Since there is already so much crossover into theatrical lighting the translation is rather simple.
And in the when it rains it pours department, I load-in and tech Mother GOOSE! at the end of the week and it runs through the weekend. Good grief!
