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What do you want out of it ?

 

We have a rental system, but for anything like laptops,ipads,android devices, we have the rental system and then have a MDM over them to control them. We can track them if needed, we can push profiles (like lock down or single app use) change various settings etc, so long as connected to the internet. The best thing is that when we get a device back we factory reset it, reset it up and it looks brand new, we dont know what a client did with the device, and any data is removed. if they want to use the device like a device they can log in with their info and it looks like "their" device.

 

It costs quite a bit to get running but does open the option of locking devices, or making set devices for shows. The annoying thing is that each "brand" has their own MDM so airwatch combines them all. They all have their own good and bad sides.

Hi,

 

No luck on those parts, I have some cover parts, and I have a reflector for a smartmac.

What are you looking for ? I THINK we might have some bits floating about for smartmac. I know since martin moved / did changes there are very little old parts, if any for the old old units.

I spent many years running rental theatres. I don't do being the TD (Tech Manager in English) anymore, but there was always a downward pressure from clients on the number of staff assigned to a gig...but no corresponding decrease in their requirements. The one saving grace of my last venue was a solid wall between the lighting booth and audio booth so one person couldn't physically operate both. (Don't tell them about the iPad remotes, please!)

 

 

I think its not just staff. We have issues with clients expecting delivery to be the same as it was 5 years ago. Fuel and pay has gone up. costs running trucks has gone up.

 

For us its almost seems like clients want more / bigger / better but keeping the same staff numbers. But also there is a difference between staff "crew" and staff "people who know what they are doing"

I guess my feeling is that eventually the law will have to change so everyone is safe all the time. And if this happens it may even be a good thing rather than bad.

 

The tricky bit, irrespective of the legislation, is how it would be policed. A worker could easily clock off one job and go straight onto another shift. We'd almost need some personal equivalent of a tachograph to keep track of work and non-work activity. Even that wouldn't go far enough - the guy responsible for the Selby rail crash had been up most of the night before chatting with someone on the phone. Is there any way (short of gross violation of privacy) that we can actually prove that someone is adequately rested when they turn up for work?

In my old life we used crew that were 0 hours but through some clever work technically sole traders. One time we had someone arrive at 10am after being on a 2300-0600 shift, they then were going on to classes, at 1800 and back to another shift at 2300. Not our fault said the crew company they pick their hours and jobs. But sure as hell if you didn't take the shifts that were sutiable you dropped down the booking list.

Youth these days....

 

I think yes image media has sent a "look" to what people want and expect to see, add some HDR and you have something for the social media.

 

We do conferance dinner stuff, lots of effect lights infact 90% effect, and FOH is a handfull of larger moving profiles to use as front light or other. Lights OVER the audiance I think looks a bit like someone lost what they were trying to do and thought "I will try this button and see how it looks" and 90% of the time unless you are 6m above the crowd one now is going to see the effect, or 4 people will see a really cool bathed in light but no light on them effect.

I have done a few times If I remember right

1 - it is a bit of force to take off

2 - there are quite a few screws and I want to say you need to remove the handle 1st but I might be wrong.

AC have Prolights LED fixtures, various styles and options, some have w/DMX also / https://www.musiclights.it/prodotti.php?page=categorie&id_mcat=3

For vision mixers we have some half depth flexrax from amptown which are nice. Mostly for the protection, as they are 19" but they do make a fold out screen case for various sizes I think designed to take vesa10.

 

At home like Alister, I have a tablet mount thats on a g-clamp, the arm is long I think 1m and really stiff so there is very little movement when being used.

 

At work I got a few g-clamp laptop stands for bench work which work great also, I have seen some which are designed to take a vesa10 + laptop combo

To add on - Mostly for David, There are quite a few options on thingiverse like this - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3364732/ to stack them, and some various rack mount parts. Along with some various mounts for ap's on poles etc.

This [ubiquiti AP and stuff in Pelicase ] is literally what we do but using a USG over an ER-X.

 

I was theorising, but you've done it; is it as good as I think it would be as a portable solution? Asking because I might need to do one too!

 

And do you cloud manage or phone?

 

 

We have 2 (now 3) kits that go on expo almost every gig - a USG+switch+2xaccess points, I think the pro ones but they have so many options..

 

In terms of manage I don't think we do, I can check, but I think that most of the time we plug in the line from the venue and away we go as everything is adopted to the usg.

 

 

So could then put a power supply, an ER-X, and something like a Ubiquiti AC Lite AP (which can be configured with an app on a phone or tablet) in a Pelicase, and have a high performance, near-enterprise, portable WiFi setup, that should be a cut above anything you'll get with a consumer brand label on it.

 

 

This is literally what we do but using a USG over an ER-X.

Does anyone have experience with them? Ubiquiti stuff is great stuff, but couldn't see a switch/DHCP/access point one box solution on their products page?

 

 

We run Ubiquiti for expo, and yes it is all single component as far as I can tell. The "issue" we found was one component has one in voltage, and another has another, so we lost a few units to stupid mistakes. Having said that you could box it all and make it plug and play.

 

They do also do Amplifi hd which is more D0m3stic, I have not used but it looks like it "might" do what you want? it does have the mesh sticks if you need, but I do understand that Amplifi and the more pro stuff does not talk.

4 things I wish they made...

 

Smaller Ceeform style plugs, connectors and splitters (I'm primarily talking about 16a single phase). Because I frequently find them just too big and ugly.

 

A cheap fixing that's much quicker than a M10 machine screw (bolt) and wingnut. Something like the quarter turn fasteners that hold your Omega clamps to your movers, mainly as I've got lots of fixtures that hung or floor mounted on different jobs, and I'm constantly wasting time swapping hook clamps for floor bases or half couplers or just putting hook clamps on to kit that I've not got the room to store or transport with clamps attached. Sure something must exist in mass productions somewhere, I just don't know the thing!

 

White roundslings. For use in marquees.

 

IP rated PAR36 fixtures. For picking out architectural features etc.

 

 

The answer to the m10 is something like a TV-spigot. its of course crazy in a cost sense, but doughty do make hooks and bases etc for all your needs. We had talked in passing about it for generics but we have so few.

For the more advanced option we use PixiLab Blocks. It's pretty indepth, you can do things with it like triggers etc as well so when something hits a ratio an event can occour, you can also send the data out to screens as you want and need. I imagine its finance wise quite a jump, but the option/s are there.

Worth asking local college / beauty course ?

 

I know we had loads of the things that I would imagine are not going to be used all the time, and a few could be spared.

I had heard Tourniquets were a 15 min item depending but no more than 20 at the very most if you HAVE to. Most important is NEVER stop the pressure, medics have the drugs and the knowledge to deal with what is in essence a crush injury, even after a long time its possible to save it just needs something more.

Airstar also do a similar unit but not cased (unless they upgraded) they work a similar way. We have used our outside quite a bit in the snow and no issues.

2 I think is selecon acclaim old style (page 7 http://www.seleconlight.com/images/stories/files/english/opmanuals/acclaim/Acclaim_zoomspots.pdf )

3 I would have said pacific but looking at this http://www.seleconlight.com/files/english/spareparts/acclaim_axial_zoomspot.pdf it looks like it might be new new style acclaim

Update from ABTT http://www.abtt.org.uk/abtt-statement-following-the-update-issued-by-westminster-city-council-into-the-apollo-theatre-investigation/

I pruned down 60 casual applications last week, I still think clear works, just be really clear.

 

It does mean I need to rework my CV a LOT, I do find that I have never really had the right style CV because my work has been contract rather than freelance.

 

 

If you are freelance I don't want a 10 page list of everything you have worked on since 15

Today a teaser of info appeared from the council http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26689705

On the sale of 4 theatres to Nimax in 2005, after failing to remedy the faults for 5 years, Lord Lloyd-Webber announced;

"I am thrilled to be able to say that these theatres are not being sold to the highest bidder, but to theatre professionals who will continue to administer them in the way that is in the best interests of the theatres themselves and the West End in general.

 

"Max is a wonderful philanthropist and long term business associate and I have the highest regard for Nica's work. Both have been supporters of London theatre for many years.

He claimed that he only sold to Nimax to raise £10M to refurbish his other theatres. He made a huge deal about theatreland being protected by "sharing the load". He sold what he now calls a demolition site as a functioning theatre.

 

 

Not quite he said that in 2000 as said in the itv peice

In 2000, Lord Lloyd-Webber, who owned sold the Apollo to Nimax in 2005, told The Times: "The Apollo in particular is a shocking place.

 

"I suggested that both it and the Lyric should be knocked down and replaced by top-quality modern theatres."

"Eye witness" on Radio 4 this morning saying that the auditorium layout, narrow gangways etc made evacuation difficult. Thought that people who were trapped was more to do with this than falling plaster.

 

Are we about to see a panic about evacuation procedures in old West End theatres?

 

 

To be fair while an old building it would conform to current regs would it not ? I would assume that evacuation would be hard because of chunks of roof not the layout.

I don't know the exact numbers but the art dept were going to get one, the rep said that for paper, wood, plastics etc it was 500mw but for metal it starts at 5000mw.