#production tech

[theaterninja12]

Inspired by people surprising us with presentations 2 minutes before going on stage and not knowing how to embed videos into powerpoints as well as the eternal "is this on? Can you hear me? Oh, good" after being told the mics were on and would be unmuted as soon as they were on stage

[strange-aeons]

Oh and that fucking crab day post sends shivers down my spine btw. I say this as someone who owns multiple pieces of tumblr merch — support them if you want, or don’t, I don’t care, but we are NOT turning a tech corporation into our poor little wet meow meow who deserves all our money uwu. We are NOT pressuring normal ass people into donating to resolve a company’s millions in debt as if it’s some important charitable cause.

[nyaa]

「QUMARION（クーマリオン」は、「CLIP STUDIO PAINT」 2013-08-03

[wikipediapictures]

eMate 300

“The Newton eMate 300 was an Apple Newton built into a laptop like casing including a standard keyboard. It was aimed at the education market.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[natsumipocket]

Sony Walkman WM-701C • cassette player (1988)

[mayasaura]

one problem with a theatrical adaption of tlt is htn, where the reveal that Gideon lives on works because of the change of second person to first.

the only way i can think of it working is that the actor playing gideon works backstage, like the lights system (but is hidden from the audience aside from subtle hints)

the biggest hint is when when wake breaches pal's river bubble she 'breaks' the lighting system and the stage goes dark. harrow is ushered into the wings by pal so she doesn't see anything, but the lights flick back on just before the curtains drop for a scene change, and pal looks directly up at the light box in surprise and smiles. if the audience is quick to turn around they can see a flash of a black robe.

Oh boy my friend, have you come to the right place!!

So, fun fact about ninja. Bear with me, I am going somewhere with this. The image of a ninja covered head to toe in black, with a hood and mask, comes from Kabuki theatre. It was originally a stagehand uniform. Like stagehands in modern theatre, stagehands in Kabuki would wear all black to signify that they were not really there, and whatever effect they were causing (carrying a prop, creating a breeze, ect.) was to be taken as happening on its own. Basic stagehand stuff, a lot of productions in many styles around the world do it, especially if they don't have fancy rigging systems.

Someone (I don't remember who now, or in what play) had the idea to dress the ninja in a production up as a stagehand. In the convention of the theatre, this made them invisible. The audience was already so used to ignoring stagehands, they didn't know any more than the characters that the ninja was present, despite the actor being clearly visible on stage. Which meant when the ninja struck, it was as if out of nowhere. I can only imagine the uproar in the theatre the first time it happened. It worked so well as to become commonplace, and the rest is history. The popular image of a ninja is still a kabuki stagehand.

So, back to the stage play of Harrow the Ninth. I think you've hit almost exactly on how to incorporate the Gideon twist into a theatrical production. But not as a lighting tech. Gideon is a stage hand. Maybe there would be more than one stagehand, maybe she would be the only one, but she would operate in full view of the audience, literally setting the scenes. I think it works best if she's the only one, but if the production needs more, she should subtly stand out in some way. As the play went on, we would notice that this one stage hand... increasingly interacts with Harrow, though Harrow never acknowledges it. At first it might look like she's playing Harrow's necromancy, because that would be the main special effect she would need to help with. When Harrow is unconscious at the end of a scene, it's always the same stagehand carrying her out. But we all know she's not really there. Until Palamedes acknowledges her. Turns to look right at her, and speaks to her. I can see the scene clearly. He would look at her, stunned, until Gideon finally took off her mask. The line "Kill us twice, shame on God," would be addressed to Gideon, and then he would turn back to Harrow, kiss her on the forehead, and tell her to go. Gideon, always out of Harrow's line of sight, would guide Harrow away while Harrow looked back at Palamedes.

[a-dream-seeking-light]

syd mead-designed lapd squad car used on the production of ridley scott’s blade runner (1982).  photographed by @iamted7 via the petersen automotive museum in la.  

[okaydays22]

[thisischeri]

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[cassette-amateur]

_1981_Korg

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

If anyone has any experience/insight into how animation production timelines and rewrites/"reshoots" work, I'd LOVE your input...

Because here we are more than 3 weeks after the Bad Batch season 3 finale, and for the past 3 weeks I haven't been able to stop wondering if the initial plan WAS to bring Tech back by the end of season 3, but given the discourse after season 2 including loud complaints of "STAKES!" and "death is meaningless in Star Wars!" and "no one stays dead!" the higher ups vetoed that plan and some changes had to be made before season 3 aired.

I'm probably wrong. It's highly likely that the creatives told the story they were planning on telling and weren't influenced at all by public opinion. But I still can't stop thinking about it.

And the thing is, if the stories are influenced by fan opinion, I question the chances of Tech ever being brought back even though they really did leave plenty of leeway for it.

Anyone have any insight??

[thelailasblog]

[worshiptheglitch]

Today's "AI" chatbots are no smarter than Siri. They only seem smarter because they're not doing anything useful. We notice when Siri fails because we ask it to do meaningful tasks. When we ask it to turn off the lights, for example, and it doesn't, we notice.

But we ask comparatively little of other chatbots, and they give us even less in return. This makes it easy for them to fail without us noticing or even caring. We don't notice because they don't matter.

I love this bit 👆 from Apple's Craig Federighi where he's kind of disgusted by the idea of having meandering conversations with a chatbot in order to get something done.

The "AI" should be doing the work for you. I think Apple knows how hard that actually is, because they've been working at it for a long time with very limited success. They know how hard it is to do because they're trying to use the tech to do meaningful things that actually serve people.

The difference is Apple taking on the burden of trying to make this tech do something, versus basically everyone else putting the burden on us. We're meant to contort to the inconsistent ramblings of their raw tech because if it was a real product that people depended on, we would ridicule it.

Just like we ridicule Siri.

[izicodes]

Built a Mini Robot

Wednesday 6th March 2024

I bought a kit online a while ago because I felt like wanting to build something. And this is the lil robot that I made last night! She’s a rover kind of robot so she just zooms around!

I’m so glad I got to complete this kit and I’m already wanting to buy more to keep myself busy that’s not programming all the time haha 😅😇

[the---hermit]

03|08|2024

This has been the first week in which I have felt properly on holiday. I got to spend part of my week eating focaccia and chilling with @ben-learns-smth, which was the absolute highlight of my month. So much serotonine and joy for my brain. And after half a day in the car I am now on holiday with my parents. We are staying in a new place we have never been to, and tho the actual place we are in was quite disappointing I am excited for all the exploration we can do around here. Hopefully it won't be too hot to visit everywhere I'd like to go to, but we'll see. For now I am just chilling with my book eating berries and I could never complain about that.

📖: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

[cyberneurotism]

Sony Diskman D-150 (1988)