Still alive

Just posting to you my dear RSS feed clients. Don’t remove the link. I’m still here.
Currently in France, on tour. Didn’t pack my camera. Some proper posts coming soon…

Pogoo

Finally had time to take some photos of the new Sori show that premiered already last weekend. Sorry about the bad quality. I had to literally take these with one hand only since I have quite much to do during the show (and it looks better down where the audience is). Maybe better pics next week.
Lights and [...]

Portland

Setup starts tomorrow in 2000+ seater theater. 1700 tickets sold already! Today having a day off to clear up most of the jet lag. This includes burgers and beer and a welcome dinner in the evening.

Young Culture

I’m already in Bristol for the next gig with English National Ballet this is Young Culture Circus Festival last weekend.

12 MAC 250 Wash
18 Alkalite TrackPod
04 VL2000
06 VL1000 AS
01 MDG MAX5000
06 LED PAR
02 Lycian 1,2kW SN
Grand MA full size

On desktop

Just finished the 1st sketch of this years Sorin Sirkus show. This year I’m doing the sets as well. Now it’s time to dig into reality and adjust all the measures since they are building parts of the set in 2 weeks!!!

Lyon

Just got back from Lyon. It was third move of Tero Saarinen’s Next Of Kin and there was already some routine and we had the luxury of two setup days so things were not as bad as they could have been.
The challenge was that the stage opening was over 17m. Because of sight lines we were able [...]

Quick update

1st week of Next of Kin down – two to go. Finally learned to run the show (I think there are about 5 cues that are not in time code). Most of the time at Alexander theater we have been designing the foh sound rack – a final version of the playback system. We will [...]

From Härnösand to dark side

I set up Tero Saarinen’s “Could You Take Some Of My Weight” for Norrdans in Härnösand. It was one of the easiest gigs forever. Thanks to good crew there and also for Mikki for designing very simple lights. The piece was set on the first day we started to work and programmed the next. Got [...]

Season 2008-2009

Back at the office. I have to say that I could have used couple more weeks of holiday. Also having some starting problems since the first week is all at the office.
Next week I’m off to Sweden, Norrdans to help them stage one of Tero’s pieces licensed there. It seems to be more and more gigs like [...]

Turin–> Holiday

Turin is done. Guess how well the Italians were able to stick to the cuelist? Not so well. And of course Marco Melchior, my Italian contact, friend and the PM of the event, said couple of times: This is the cuelist and we follow it so go ahead and program a cuelist. Sometimes during the [...]