Archive for February, 2010

New Zealand Hiatus

// February 6th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Travel

So I’ll be taking a little trip to New Zealand for a couple week startingggggggg….now. Due to blustery weather here in Central VA, Delta has cancelled our flight. Fortunately, we are going to try to drive to Greensboro and meet my parents halfway where the weather is a little more cooperative and fly out from there. The next 48 hours will be spent in planes, trains and automobiles.

Here’s our rough itinerary:
- Explore Auckland
- HIke the Tongariro Crossing (Mt. Doom for the LOTR fans. I did not realize this until several weeks ago!)
- Explore Wellington and meet up with some friends
- Explore Christchurch
- Explore Queenstown
- Backpack the Routeburn Track
- Explore the Milford Sound
- Possibly do a glacier hike on Franz Josef or Fox Glacier

I’ll be taking lots of photos and video with my new Panasonic LX3 and 44.5gb of SDHC cards. So, if you don’t mind taking a break from reading about stages, I’ll give you some NZ blog love when I return after the 23rd.

T3 Stage Design

// February 5th, 2010 // 4 Comments » // Stage Design, Video

We just wrapped up our 2nd Series of the year. I suppose I must have gotten distracted along the way because I totally did not take any photos of it. I do, however, have a special documentation of the process thanks to Tim and Colin. They setup a Canon 7D and took photos every 30 seconds during work hours all the way up until Sunday morning into the 1st Service.

About the design:
- We wanted something warm
- We got the lanterns from The Paper Lantern Store (along w/ 15′ cables)
- Used 40 watt bulbs
- For power distribution, we found a great 12 outlet distro at Harbor Freight for $20. We replaced the ends from Edison to Stage Pin and it worked like a charm.

Between the 15′ extensions and the distros, we should have a really nice setup for future designs when we want to incorporate lots of dimmable incandescent fixtures.