Not much happening...

So I got an email this morning saying that I am way behind on my blog posts and that I need to do 6 of them this week...

Well, thats completely true, due to the fact that I choose to spend my time actually doing my project and working extra hours as opposed to writing about it...

So anyways- here they come. fast and furious. 5 blogs in one night. and pictures.

I am saving the last one for my last official day tomorrow.


Okay here we go. So like two weeks ago (around the time i mysteriously disappeared from this blog) we had a few slow days at vincent, and since then we've had several more, so I thought id talk about one of them.

Its very often the case that we are extremely busy and everybody is constantly working to prep shows that are about to go out or check back in stuff that has just returned. Sometimes though we hit small dry spells where really nothing is happening. All the orders that are going out in the near future are pulled and prepped and theres nothing much coming back in. This is when we have to find projects to entertain ourselves, or work that otherwise has been pushed off that we finally have time to do.

For me, and the other two part time girls, our first stop on a day like this is the repair shelf. Often there is cable or small fixtures that have been damaged in some way sitting of the shelf here. On this particular day there were two 10' dmx cables that i got the pleasure of fixing. Dmx cables are harder then a typical power cable because its smaller and as opposed to a power cable, you cant screw the wires into place. they have to be soldered into place. luckily, as part of what i do at hawken, I am pretty good at fixing these cables and i have a lot of experience soldering.

Another thing we like to do on days like this is fix the multitude of broken moving lights sitting around in the shop. This is something i dont know much about but I have been learning a lot. There is actually a training course for a week held in texas where people can go and learn (and be certified) in fixing these moving lights. All moving lights are is really a bunch of small moving pieces, wheels, and motors, all contained in a nice shell. The inside of a moving light is shown in a picture below.

Ive also attached a nice photo of a moving light that decided to start smoking out the lens...