Now I remember why I’m here. I’m sitting in the front row of the theatre, stage right. My strap artists are finally out of the training room, and on the big winches. The best strap artist in the world has just tried his first flight in the new space, and is 40 feet over my [...]
Also, boom. This weekend, there will be pictures of the boom. Bigger fireworks displays than the commercial ones in Australia, and it’s just random folks setting them off. Tomorrow, that will be us. Work proceedeth apace. Ex-co-workers of mine will be unsurprised that my first performance evaluation consisted largely of “satisfactory”, with some “outstandings” and [...]
We have the theatre, we have a lot of funky new toys. Of course, for every roll of Spectra, there’s a few dozen spreader beams to hang, at a couple hundred pounds each. Nonetheless, there is Spectra. If you’re not a rope nerd, just use your imagination. So, work proceedeth apace. There’s a bit of [...]
I have seen the theatre, and it is good. Lots of funky toys, almost ready for handover, milspec fibreoptic for the projection gear, awesome concepts. Not telling you much more than that, partly because of NDA, partly because words just don’t do it justice. Come see this thing. It will rock you. But, like I [...]
Still alive The last few days have been orientation, tours of Macao, tomorrow we tour the theatre. Went in to the Venetian HR offices on Macau Peninsula on Monday. They’re a little overwhelmed by the number of people coming in – they sometimes ask you to fill in forms you’ve already filled in, and they’re [...]
10 days til my flight, and counting. No apartment, no idea what I’ll be doing, nowhere near enough packing done. Wish me luck! jai. .