I don’t normally blog. In fact, I never do. I rarely have “free” time; but at this moment I find myself having an abundant amount as I babysit a dance competition for a local venue.

Anyways, this blog needs to have a point – well, here it is: The future of technical theatre could be incredible. No, really. I mean it. It dawned on me the other day when I was trouble-shooting an older Strand lighting network, trying to get it to play nice in the sandbox with an ETC Ion. …

I am a high school TV Productions and Drama teacher and I am also working on my doctorate of computer science in emerging media with a concentration in theater technology. I chose this concentration because it only makes sense with what I do. Now I am trying to work on research and a dissertation topic.

I have become fascinated with projection designs while researching the tech theater world. I did not know much about it until recently when I decided to make my theater and studio…

This week, as you read this, I’m in Venice with my wife celebrating our first ten years together. (Aren’t you jealous?) I had every intention of getting ahead of my game and writing a post in advance about Gantt charts, as promised last week. Unfortunately, life got in the way (as tends to happen), and I’d rather post a quality discussion of Gantt charts than a quickly-whipped together one.

In place of either of those things, then, I present to you a revision of a post for my…