ART?

Last night was light hang for Arcadia, the next Millikin mainstage production. It went a whole lot better than i was expecting it to, which was awesome, because i was bracing myself for the worst night ever. I'm going to go ahead and attribute the quality of last night to the two electricians in charge, and the fabulous crew that could work by themselves without someone baby-sitting them and just good company in general.

So while we were still putting lights in the air, one of the crew members tipped over a light that was sitting next to his ladder and we all heard the sickening crunch of the lamp shattering. He freaked out a little and i said, it's alright, just get the trash can so i can tip the light over and get all of the broken glass out of it. When i removed the base-cap to change the lamp this was what came out:
Only the glass envelope around the lamp had broken and the filament remained completely intact. This picture is one of my friends and the crew member looking at it in sheer amazement. (something like that NEVER happens, the filament always breaks with the glass). Part of the duties of the Master Electrician (i am NOT Master Electrician by the way i am the Assistant Lighting Designer for this show) is to set up the light board and the tech table for the show. My ME (abbreviation) decided that he did not like the little clip lamps for the table and thus created this magnificent work of art:
It's basically a dorm lamp with a crapload of gel gaff taped to it. We had an argument about what color the gels should be because (LEARNING TIME YAY!) if you use blue gel (which is the norm) you will look up from your paperwork at the stage and everything on stage will look pink or red, because looking at everything under the blue lamp light fatigues the blue color receptors in your eyes. So then he was like well let's use red, but if you work for awhile under red light, when you look up at the stage everything will look green because you just fatigued your red receptors, so he solved that problem by using just a bunch of different colors. which i don't really think solved the problem....