I would have to say that my Spring semester was pretty packed and I am relieved that it is over for the time being. It is nice to have two years of grad school under my belt. I haven’t blogged much, because I really haven’t been around. As a quick recap here are some of the exciting things I got to do this semester:

In January school started more

Last week I presented a short presentation on light painting and graffiti artists in the Lighting History class that I am taking. I got really interested in the project and spent way to many hours on YouTube and websites checking out people’s work. I personally have been interested in light painting for a few years because of my background in photography, but architectural and video more

I flew into NYC last week to start assisting on an off-broadway show. It has been a very long week, but I have managed to keep my energy up for the most part. Today is my day off so I thought I would blog a little about being an assistant. I thought I would briefly go over a lot of the expectations of an assistant, but what more

The Spring semester starts next week, but in the meantime, CalArts has this 2 week interim schedule thing. The purpose of it is to take specialty classes and seminars. One of the classes I’m taking is an advanced moving light lab master class that Don arranged for all of the LDs. It’s a two day seminar about programming moving lights and the role more

Next week I am teaching a workshop called Vectorworks for Theatre. As I sit here, planning out the details of what I will teach each day (the workshop is 4 hours a day for 3 consecutive days) I realize what I am really teaching is a drafting course for theatre. We just happen to be using a mouse instead of a pencil and the vectorworks program instead of a piece more