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Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Oct 06, 2017 3:36:45 pm PDT #17480 of 30002

Think I'm gonna pull an ac unit this weekend. But not the bedroom unit, just turned it back on. In October. Thinking of getting a skid on wheels so I can roll both units into the big closet. Gonna require some closet Tetris, but it'd be nice to not store them out in the open. And I'm not moving them to the basement ever again.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 06, 2017 8:01:28 pm PDT #17481 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

OMG- yet another tech where costumes and props (the women) are prepared, and lights, sound and video are literally writing every cue as if they have never talked to the director. And they probably haven't, as this director will not commit, but we sort of make him. The designer and I want to go back to a world where we don't have costumes until they are finished with lights and sound, like it was when I was in college, because here we are, all ready like good little girls and didn't even need extra time to get through the costume, and they spent 6 hours dicking aournd about the first 5 minutes of the show.


aurelia - Oct 06, 2017 9:19:10 pm PDT #17482 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Sophia, in my world we can't start writing lighting cues until the start of tech. Sometimes that is 1-1.5 hours before actors hit the stage, but that is how it works. Sound and video should have files to work with but there is a lot that can't happen until it is in the space and in context.


Dana - Oct 06, 2017 10:24:38 pm PDT #17483 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Shrift and I are on a coach tour with friends. I'm sorry to miss you, Maria.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 07, 2017 3:29:17 am PDT #17484 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Aurelia- it isn't the actual writing on the board, it is that the director and designers are seeming to have never spoken about the cues and the design concept! I don't even know if it is the designers fault, I think it is the director Something like - the directors says I always imagined a thunderstorm here, but they have no idea and then have to build. Thunderstorm sound and video cue right there, including locating sound files for a thunderstorm.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 07, 2017 3:48:03 am PDT #17485 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Also, I didn't mean to slag off lights sound a video, this process is just so frustrating and I wish they were not in clothes for the beginning of this process until we got some semblance of the directors and designers being on the same page. What is happening right now is like if everyone walked on stage in their street clothes, and the director, only then began talking to the designer about what his design concept he wanted for costumes, and then we had to go find them while everyone else waited. In this case it might be helpful to do it that way- we would all have time to work!


Jesse - Oct 07, 2017 3:49:18 am PDT #17486 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Guess who's back? The dating robot! After a week off, apparently he misses me. Remember we have never met and not even had a real conversation even over text.


Calli - Oct 07, 2017 4:19:46 am PDT #17487 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Guess who's back? The dating robot! After a week off, apparently he misses me. Remember we have never met and not even had a real conversation even over text.

I bet the relationship he's having in his head is amazing. Pity he's attempting to project his fantasy world on a real human.


Dana - Oct 07, 2017 4:20:38 am PDT #17488 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

The dating robot has a very specific timeline.


Jesse - Oct 07, 2017 4:31:21 am PDT #17489 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's possibly the weirdest thing I've ever experienced, online-dating-wise.