"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

I've been asked this question a few times over the past few months so I thought I'd turn my reply into a blog post.

Hey Eric, I'm looking to buy some soft good or vinyl wraps for 12" box trussing. I wanted to check with you to see if you have a company you would go with for something like this. Let me know if you do, I'd like to order them as soon as possible. If you don't know of anything, no big deal, I'll go with a company I found online.

Another thought to consider is pulling fabric through the inside of truss. Again, position your truss warmer inside the truss as well - the fabric will take color and play with the folds for beautiful saturation while the truss will be highlighted in silhouette to for additional texture and form.

Below are photos showing both ideas in use.

Don't ever settle for white functionals when hue and texture can enhance the storytelling. That said, often No Color is the correct choice. My point is, take some time to read the script, talk with your director, emotionally connect with each scene, and generally put thought to your craft.

This weekend, we helped create a scene taking place after school hours in an old elementary classroom. The first photo shows the gels and gobos. Next is a snapshot (I wish I had used my good camera as my phone hardly comes close to what the eye or video camera, for that matter saw) of the scene being rehearsed. Finally (for context) a shot of the whole stage during the teaching.

I love texture in lighting design!

The other day, I saw that our Lighting Director was organizing gobos. I pulled these 9 out onto our cutting board for this photo highlighting a few of my go-to picks. Some are best as texture on scenic; others for people or the floor beneath them; still others through haze. Some work best with nearly hard focus, others work best with the lens pulled or pushed completely soft. Some like to be complimented with a gel, others work best with NC in complement with saturation coming from another light source. A more exhaustive post is probably due at some point (with greater thought behind theory of when to consider using what and some example photos) but for now I'll leave this as an encouragement to start experimenting with what you like.

GAM 251 Spring Branches | Rosco B856 Gothic Window | GAM B709 Glass Block

Rosco 77703 Double Hung Window | Rosco 7903 Reflected Water 1 | Rosco 884 Snow Dots

Rosco 77594 Abstract Lines | Rosco 77785/238-285 Sharp Breakup Medium | Apollo 2133-BR Generic Breakup

Here's a cryptic behind the scenes shot from my DP position behind the camera. It was a fun day spent quickly creating #productiondesign scenes on the fly with only a minimal bag of tricks to pull from; rocking some copy editing for the #teleprompter; shooting with #DSLR; meeting some new friends; and working with an old friend who's quite a good producer. Not shown are shots of and from within a vehicle I don't usually ride in.

I just posted this review:

"Skeptically started playing with postach.io earlier this week simply because of my love for Evernote. With only a few hours invested, I'm sold; it's ideal for my workflow."

Here's some expanded thoughts on what I did to experiment and some notes on things I like so far:

• I imported all my Tumblr posts with ease. This was great to begin with as I want a backup/archive of them. I compose all my drafts in Evernote already and copy/paste from there so therefore many of the longer, thought out posts are already archived; but this was great to get all "life stream" posts archived and tagged. I've been meaning to do this somehow for a long time...
  
• I quickly filtered out the posts I didn't want to keep published and also added tags to my posts I choose to keep. Because of my many varied interests (#productiondesign #backpacking #cooking #leadership #creativity #pilosophy #photography etc.) think tags are probably an important thing for me to make sure I use on any blog I publish. I suspect that very few of my followers are interested in everything I post. Therefore a way to quickly filter to only the topics that you are interested in is great. The fact that I already use tags with my Evernote workflow makes this super easy and helpful to me in many ways beyond the blog.
  
• I quickly dragged together a few pages including a Portfolio and an About. I probably ought to spend more time on these, but how easy was it to use content I already had in Evernote and simply drag into a new folder and apply the tags "page" and "published" to have a multi-page site go live!
  
• I'm currently just using the default Theme. I briefly explored some others, but the default seems fine for the moment. I would love to work some greater control of a Contact Me section.
  
• Next step is to set up posting to Twitter and such.
• Oh, and to see how easy it is to redirect to a custom domain...

I must declare, I'm really liking this service so far. I just moved one of my blog drafts - a note I started (but never finished) several months ago and never copy/pasted to my Tumblr blog - from my "1. Action" folder into my "Postach.io" folder. I kept all my original tags including "@kcc" and simply added "published" and a post is on my site. How joyfully simple!

Interesting that it logs the post by the note creation time stamp. I'll have to look into how this might be adjusted. On one hand, I like it. However, I think I'd prefer it to be based on when I choose to publish. Yet, I wouldn't want to adjust the creation date as filed in Evernote. Hmm...

This is a sentence to test how a line of text reads. I'll add this line to see how italics or bold turns out.

Yes, that's me (atop a beautiful pass in the Sierras) in the photo that my friend took using my camera. All rights reserved.

Here is a bullet pointed list:

• Point A
• Point number 2
• And finally, D

That's it for this test.

Postach.io is the blogging platform thats powered by your Evernote documents.

How It Works

Postach.io creates blog posts and pages from your notes. To create a post, write a note and tag it as "published" in this notebook. Then click the "Sync" button. Bam! Your note is published on your site, just like that!

Creating a page works the same, except you add an additional tag "page". This tells Postach.io to create your note as page instead of a post.

Updating a note is just as easy. Try making a change to this note, and click the "Sync" button. Visit your site, and you'll see its been updated.

To remove a note from your site, simply remove the "published" tag and re-sync. You could also delete the note itself. Its that easy!

What Can It Be Used For?

Postach.io can be used to create many variations of blog and documentation sites! Its only limited to your imagination! Here's some ideas to get you started.

• A tumble blog of your life and adventures.
• The internet needs more funny cat photos. Go!
• Start a photo blog of your favourite places to eat, with a short review.
• Documentation for your product or app.
• Create a link blog of interesting articles.
• Share your notebook with friends to make a collaborative wiki.

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