My website is up and working and the link has been added to my profile on here but just for yucks...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The State of the Union is....
I'm a big political junky. The West Wing is one of my favorite shows. I've seen every episode at least 3 times. Some of the accounts I follow on twitter are the "characters" from West Wing, they like to refer to the tv show as a documentary on the Bartlett presidency, and I love that. One of my favorite moments in the first campaign of President Obama was easily the interview with "President Bartlett" and comparing his time in office and the campaign that was going on at that time. Well today my mind was blown again with the announcement from the White House that there would be a BIG BLOCK OF CHEESE DAY!!!!!!!
If you are unfamiliar with Big Block of Cheese day let me quote the White House Blog.
If you are unfamiliar with Big Block of Cheese day let me quote the White House Blog.
" This isn't a new idea, the same can be said of President Andrew Jackson. On February 22, 1837, President Jackson hosted an open house featuring a 1,400-pound block of cheese that sat in the main foyer of the White House. This original "Big Block of Cheese Day" opened the doors of the White House to thousands of citizens to interact with cabinet members and White House staff – and carve off a slice of the four foot by two foot thick slab of cheddar.
On Wednesday, January 29th, with a nod to history (and maybe the TV show the West Wing), the Obama Administration is hosting the first-ever virtual "Big Block of Cheese Day," during which dozens of White House officials will take to social media for a day long 'open house' to answers questions from everyday Americans in real-time on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram and via Google+ Hangout.
So be sure to visit WH.gov/SOTU to watch the State of the Union Address live on January 28, 2014 at 9 p.m. ET and stay tuned for a complete schedule of engagement events for virtual "Big Block of Cheese Day." You can start asking questions now using the hashtag #AsktheWH."
Leo McGarry, the former Chief of Staff to President Bartlett and was also elected Vice President but then died on the show, holds regular Big Block of Cheese Days on twitter. President Bartlett also host them. Even the actors who played Josh Lyman and Will Bailey took on their old characters and helped the real White House make the announcement..
Anyways I will be watching the SOTU and commenting on twitter tonight so here is to my baked Chicken Fetichinni Alfredo that's in the oven and 20 mins out for the speech.
Welcome
Welcome to the first post of my new blog. I'm a senior theatre design major with a focus on Scenic, Lighting, and Sound. Last semester I was the lighting and Tech director for Shrek the Musical and Scenic and Sound designer for Other Desert Cities. I'm currently the on call TD for Jonesburough Repertory Theatre, basically anytime they need tech questions or a last minute designer or help with something I come in and do what I can. Over spring break this semester I will be lighting designer for Spring Awakening with Glasgow Theatre Company. This past week has been a busy week on the phone with the JRT and with a friend in Florida who just bought the same board that JRT had purchased over the summer.
I think its a beautiful board called the Behringer x32. A completely digital board with automated sliders. The x32 has the ability to take in 32 inputs and output a lot more than that. At the JRT I have it set to take 14 wireless mics, 2 keyboards, guitar, and a bass. The Outs are set as L and R mains and mono stage monitors hung inside the upstage side of the proscenium. With a full band on stage I have 3 more monitors on stage digitally patched to take the same feed as the stage monitors. The awesome thing about this board is that with it entirely digital setting up each of these is a a 5 minute job. Just plug and patch and play.
The x32 has a lot of interesting features that makes it much more user friendly. There is an iPhone, iPad, and iPod app. This app actually runs the bus sends which is how I set up my monitors and what I have spent the majority of my time working with this week. With a bass, guitar, and 2 keyboards sent to bus send 1, its a routing or patch to whatever output I need it to be at be that a 1/4 inch cable or a XLR cable.
The x32 also has many effects built into the board. It has a massive processor built in that you can patch into each individual channel or on a bus send and route each channel to send to that bus send. During Shrek and USO I had 3 different processors running at one time on separate bus sends. The board also has the ability to record directly from the board, so you can save a version of your mix to use later or record a cue to hold for use in a show later. It can play each one back but I wasn't a fan of the interface to do that. Instead I use MultiPlay software.
The best and easiest feature that I found wad the cue system Behringer has created. The ability to save levels and patching and mutes and even labels on each fader, the board can hold 100 cues, but you can save more on a flash drive and load a new show on the flash drive. You can also run the board from a computer mess with levels and save all from the computer. This is one of my favorite boards to use. However the only big complaint that I have is that I wish it was available in a full size instead of the compact version were only 16 of the 32 channels can be seen at a time.
-photo credit from the Behringer website-
I think its a beautiful board called the Behringer x32. A completely digital board with automated sliders. The x32 has the ability to take in 32 inputs and output a lot more than that. At the JRT I have it set to take 14 wireless mics, 2 keyboards, guitar, and a bass. The Outs are set as L and R mains and mono stage monitors hung inside the upstage side of the proscenium. With a full band on stage I have 3 more monitors on stage digitally patched to take the same feed as the stage monitors. The awesome thing about this board is that with it entirely digital setting up each of these is a a 5 minute job. Just plug and patch and play.The x32 has a lot of interesting features that makes it much more user friendly. There is an iPhone, iPad, and iPod app. This app actually runs the bus sends which is how I set up my monitors and what I have spent the majority of my time working with this week. With a bass, guitar, and 2 keyboards sent to bus send 1, its a routing or patch to whatever output I need it to be at be that a 1/4 inch cable or a XLR cable.
The x32 also has many effects built into the board. It has a massive processor built in that you can patch into each individual channel or on a bus send and route each channel to send to that bus send. During Shrek and USO I had 3 different processors running at one time on separate bus sends. The board also has the ability to record directly from the board, so you can save a version of your mix to use later or record a cue to hold for use in a show later. It can play each one back but I wasn't a fan of the interface to do that. Instead I use MultiPlay software.
The best and easiest feature that I found wad the cue system Behringer has created. The ability to save levels and patching and mutes and even labels on each fader, the board can hold 100 cues, but you can save more on a flash drive and load a new show on the flash drive. You can also run the board from a computer mess with levels and save all from the computer. This is one of my favorite boards to use. However the only big complaint that I have is that I wish it was available in a full size instead of the compact version were only 16 of the 32 channels can be seen at a time.
-photo credit from the Behringer website-
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