For context I walked 67.9 km last week

And probably walked 67 of those in these four walls #ttrttpt

I don’t know everything about everything

But I do have a very good knowledge of fire and building regulations in and around places of gathering, especially for non-static spaces (ie rooms you can move the stage and chairs around in to make different layouts)

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or if you (or someone you’re close with) is a wee indie lighting designer, who’s still using mostly tungsten or wants to play around with it, I will happily send a chunk of gel their way

Just coz it’s not tidy enough for a full season here, doesn’t mean it’s no good at all. And playing around with gel off cuts at home is a great way to dick around with colour theory and gel combinations without a heap of time pressure

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Related

If you know of a good entertainment industry accountant in Tāmaki, please send me their website to judge

And also I’ll add them to my spreadsheet of people to contact next week.
(Once I’ve judged them)

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The problem is that I’ve given them a smaller discount than last year, which is true facts

And is a thing I said we needed to do a year ago, when we were negotiated down from the quoted rate AFTER the event had happened.

It’s still a 60% discount off the quoted price, which had a 20% discount on the equipment

And like. I can’t discount labour. That’s hard costs.
I’m paying both me and Pie this year, which we haven’t the previous festivals, and we can’t fucking do that anymore #ttrttpt

Don’t get me wrong, I genuinely adore my tour pals - I’m gunna miss them a bunch when we wrap at the end of this month

But
The last three days have been like 0900 til 2300 with people, lots of talking and thinking, and a lot of lil political games and posturing as we try to say the right things to get invited to future festivals.
And that’s been our Wednesdays through Saturdays for the last month or so

I am fucking /wiped/
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So here I am at coming up 1 am

Too hungry to sleep well
But without any means to remedy it

So tomorrow’s goals are:
- finish plotting a show
- do said show to a paying audience without fucking up too bad
- stop to eat at least one hot meal, preferably from your favourite Vietnamese place but a fucking pie will do mate
- drink more tea coz hydration
- make sure all the set is marked up good

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I had to ring Pie to ask

“I know you really like this thing, and the effect is pretty important for a couple of moments. But. How many dollars worth of need the effect is it?”

I don’t think I’ve heard him swear that much since the time we got the forklift stuck outside #ttrttpt