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From: pinette@fraser.sfu.ca (Gandolf the 23rd)
Subject: Re: Flash Pots
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:36:10 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.181852.28584@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> brg2x@hagar8.acc.Virginia.EDU (Barry Richard Gribble) writes:
>In article <1992Apr4.024250.19154@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
>brown@slc8.INS.CWRU.Edu (Dan Brown) writes:
>
>|> 
>|> Does anyone know where to get low amperage fuses of the screwing
>type??? 
>|> 
>|> I have made flash pots from fuses, but this requires a LOW amperage
>fuse...
>|> 
>|> Basically, you need to carefully cut out the plastic top of the fuse,
>fill
>|> it with something flamable, and tape over the hole. These are then
>screwed
>|> into a light socket (with the power as definiately OFF as you can get
>it!!!)
>|> and then ignited at the apropriate time by turning on the power
>remotely.
>|> Handle with care at all times!
>|> 
>|> Anyway... I haven't been able to find anything smaller than a 15amp
>fuse 
>|> with the right kind of screw-in base for a long time. Anyone have
>any
>|> reccomendations?
>|> 
>|> -- 
>|> Dan Brown
>|> brown@ins.cwru.edu
>
>It may be a little more of a mess to do, and perhaps less safe,
>but it occurs to me that your could use a light-buld instead.
>Certainly a 15W make-up mirror kind of light would do.
>
>				BG

There are two very wrong and dangerous reasons why you shouldn't use either
one of these ways fore flash pots (I have used the fuse idea in the past
but not anymore).  Both are dangerous becuase both can create profectiles
with from the envelope when ignited...ie...hard platic or glass flying through
the air.  the second reason why it is dangerous is because you are using 
110 ac power from the wall to set them off.   Totally wrong.....you only need
a 12 volt batter to set them off.  Most pyro guys use two motor cycle batteries.Anyway, using the ac has a very high risk of blowing breakers which isnt that
big a deal unless you of course have something else plugged into that breaker.
Also, electical fire is a consideration one has to think of.  Anyway, the safest
and most widely used method that prof. pyro dudes use is the baggy method...
which is simply mix your powder, and put it into a cut down glad sandwitch
bag with two protruding wires coming out....that way, rigth before the show,
you just simply place the bag in the pot and connect the wires...very neat,
very tidy and very safe....ie..no projectiles from pieces of your envelope.
From: givler@bermuda (Greg Givler)
Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
Subject: Re: Flash Pots
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:38:29 GMT
Organization: Another Amiga UNIX System

In article <1992Apr4.024250.19154@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> brown@slc8.INS.CWRU.Edu (Dan Brown) writes:
>
>Does anyone know where to get low amperage fuses of the screwing type??? 
>
>I have made flash pots from fuses, but this requires a LOW amperage fuse...
>
>Basically, you need to carefully cut out the plastic top of the fuse, fill
>it with something flamable, and tape over the hole. These are then screwed
>into a light socket (with the power as definiately OFF as you can get it!!!)
>and then ignited at the apropriate time by turning on the power remotely.
>Handle with care at all times!
>
>Anyway... I haven't been able to find anything smaller than a 15amp fuse 
>with the right kind of screw-in base for a long time. Anyone have any
>reccomendations?
>

Well the 15 amp fuses is what we use in one of our flash pots. The other one
is a bit different.

We have one that is used with DC current, and uses rocket fuses, like
Estes model rockets use. It is portable, i.e. you don't have to plug it in
and is controller by the actor by means of a doorbell switch. It uses four
D batteries, with wires going from the batteries to an alligator clip then
the rocket fuse with is placed in the flash powder, then to the switch. or 
something like that. I didn't build it, so I don't know exactly how it
is wired. But it was very reliable as long as you made sure that the 
rockey fuse was in the flash powder.


>-- 
>Dan Brown
>brown@ins.cwru.edu

Greg
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From: whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen)
Subject: Re: rocks, trees, and foliage
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 03:54:57 GMT

In article <6494@shodha.enet.dec.com> wahl@merton.enet.dec.com (David Wahl) writes:
>--
>What's your favorite way of making artificial, 3d, rocks, trees and 
>foliage?

Our high school did Into The Woods earlier this year, and I believe our direct-
or (a genius, though sometimes a bit thick...) either invented or developed
the following method for the best damn trees in the world...

The trees consisted of a tree-trunk shaped base of 1" plywood, into which had
been screwed LONG 1x4. (Our biggest was 18' or thereabouts... Took three people
just to toe it when raising!) You now have a rough wooden frame.  


|    | /   For branches, just screw in and brace a length of 1x.
|    |/
|    |
|    |
|____|

Now cover the spindly-lookin' thing with chicken wire.  Keep it round, and blend
the branches into the trunk.

For covering  the frame:  Mix up some earth-tone dope, with plenty of animal
glue.  Rip 1'x1' squares of muslin, and soak them in the dope.  Squeeze out
the excess, and smooth over the chicken wire.  This takes a crew with
no qualms about standing elbow-deep in hot paint-glue dip, so make sure you
have enough people to keep the process short.  When done, you'll have a not-
realistic tree.  So, using a darker-colored dope, soak 2'x8" strips of burlap
and apply them in bark-like fashion to the entire tree.  Staple them through the
lower layer of doped muslin.  Voila!  Looming, menacing, deadwood trees.



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From: sasmsb@ize.unx.sas.com (Mark Britt)
Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
Subject: Acting Newsgroup?
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:06:32 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasmsb@ize.unx.sas.com
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Is there a newsgroup dedicated to the art of acting?

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From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Subject: Re: Flash Pots
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 22:43:03 GMT

In article <53020@mimsy.umd.edu>, gdrew@cs.umd.edu (Greg Drew) writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.215223.1@uncavx.unca.edu> sweeney@uncavx.unca.edu writes:
>>without blowing a breaker.  These are reliable and convenient to fuse; AND THEY
>>DON'T COST AN ARM AND A LEG
>>                           unless . . .
>>you fail in control procedures.  Be sure your circuit has both an "arm" and
>>"fire" switch in parallel.  Be sure ONE person is singly responsible for

Apologies for pedantry, but put the ARM and fire switches in SERIES, please;
not PARALLEL, as the latter rather defeats the purpose of the ARM switch.
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understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
From: wahl@merton.enet.dec.com (David Wahl)
Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
Subject: rocks, trees, and foliage
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:22:41 GMT
Reply-To: wahl@merton.enet.dec.com (David Wahl)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

--
What's your favorite way of making artificial, 3d, rocks, trees and 
foliage?

Regards,
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Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
From: jimd@m2xenix.psg.com (Jim Dorman)
Subject: Re: lighting design text recommendation
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 06:44:00 GMT

In <1992Apr10.164154.28764@ctr.columbia.edu> vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike) writes:

> In article <6517@shodha.enet.dec.com> wahl@merton.enet.dec.com (David Wahl) writes:
> >--
> >Another post brought this thought to mind:  what is the best book on
> >lighting design?

> Well, _The Stage Lighting Handbook_ by Francis Reid is quite good, if a mite 
> old (copyright dates 1987, 1982, 1976); it covers the basics of plays, 
> musicals, operas, and dance.

Might I also recommend "A Method Of Lighting for the Theatre", by our old friend Mr. Stanley McAndless.  I don't know if the book is still in print, though.

One also might try whatever edition of "Scene Design and Stage Lighting" is 
out there (try your local college bookstore), but it will most probably be
a rehash of McAndless's stuff.

I'd be interested in a book that doesn't follow the McAndless school of
design, if only for my personal reference library (being a designer, I get
off on stuff like this).

Good luck.
From: fabbott@athena.mit.edu (Freeland K Abbott III)
Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
Subject: Re: Flash Pots
Date: 12 Apr 92 03:13:24 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <65220@apple.Apple.COM> stadler@Apple.COM (Andy Stadler) writes:

   Here's the SUPER DUPER pyro control circuit.  This is the one to use.


				   --  KEY                       -- FIRE
				 --                 (a)        --
		   --------    ----------------*---------    -----------
		   |                   |              |        |       |
		   |                   |              ---(x)----       |
		  ---                  _              Continuity       |
		-------                * Armed          Light          \ Nichrome
		   | Battery           - Light                         / Igniter
		   |                   |                               |
		   |                   |      (b)                      |
		   ----------------------------*------------------------


   Here are the notes:
	(3)  You REALLY want a continuity light, as shown.  This is the only way
		to know that your igniters are properly connected.

A good idea... although I assume your continuity lamp includes or is
in series with a really hefty impedance, so hefty that the current
through that branch is negligible.


	(4)  Everything to the left of (a) and (b) is the power supply.  You need
		one of these.  Everything to the right is the per-circuit igniter.
		You can build multiples of these for a nice multi-channel controller.

Seems that in a multiple system you could want yet another layer of
keys between the ARM and FIRE you have, since (as described) the ARM
arms the entire bank at once, and I rather fancy separate arm and fire
switches for each one...

   --Andy      stadler@apple.com

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Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
From: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Subject: Re: lighting design text recommendation
Organization: Columbia University
Reply-To: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:41:54 GMT

In article <6517@shodha.enet.dec.com> wahl@merton.enet.dec.com (David Wahl) writes:
>--
>Another post brought this thought to mind:  what is the best book on
>lighting design?

Well, _The Stage Lighting Handbook_ by Francis Reid is quite good, if a mite 
old (copyright dates 1987, 1982, 1976); it covers the basics of plays, 
musicals, operas, and dance.

Tori

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From: bernstei@juliet.cs.colorado.edu (Michael Bernstein)
Subject: Re: Acting Newsgroup?
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 02:30:10 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.124302.3032@unx.sas.com> 
   sasmsb@ize.unx.sas.com (Mark Britt) writes:
>In article <1992Apr16.031648.3945@colorado.edu>, 
>   bernstei@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Michael Bernstein) writes:
>
>|> In my opinion, acting is best learned by doing it.
>
>   True, but just as there are techniques for creating effects onstage
>   there are techniques for acting.  I've been in 13 productions in
>   the last three years, and I've learned a lot just by watching other
>   actors and listening to directors--then taking with me the positives
>   and leaving behind the negatives.  I'd like to be able to do the
>   same in a newsgroup.

It seems to me that since the language of acting is gesture, intonation,
postion, and timing, talking about it without shared context would fail.
You have to have seen the same piece of acting in order to discuss what's
going on.  And how precisely can you describe X's magnificent scene on the
heath with the Fool, except to say that it was, well, "magnificent"?

If you want to talk about a play's structure, and how Shakespeare used 
double time-schemes, and how _The_Hostage_ was brechtian in structure,
then I think that rightly belongs in rec.arts.theatre, or perhaps 
alt.theatre.academic.  And we *can* talk about these things.  

But hey, why not an alt.acting?  Perhaps it will fail, but then that's
why we have alt groups, eh?

>   As the only formal training I have in acting are a couple of classes
>   from the local Arts council, I'd like to be able to exchange ideas
>   with people such as myself (i.e. those who have already *gasp*
>   *become* ACTORS).  Not how to break into the biz or the "big-time."
>   To me, acting is my way of artistically expressing myself.  I'm
>   not in it for the money; I'm in it for the joy of it.

Hmm.  But what are you to learn from them?  You can't copy their tricks
(except for farce, but it's still dangerous) because you don't want to
portray OTHER ACTORS.  (I hope.)  You want to portray people.  So to find 
the right presentation for a given character, you have to remember someone
else, their mannerisms and so on, and mesh that with your portrayal.  So
we're back where we have no language to talk about the stuff.  And if I
play Yepihodov in _Cherry_Orchard_, working from a real person, how am
I to explain my process?  Or say, "I just acted as though I was always
forgetting my keys?"  I've told you something about the interpretation
of the character, but very little about how it worked on my instrument 
(me, my voice, my body, my mannerisms and so on).

I think discussions of interpretation most interesting.  What a play means,
the historical background of a play, the function of a given character,
motivation, relationship -- we can talk about these things.  But we're back 
to addressing the structure of a play.

I dunno.  Mebbe that *is* appropriate to a newgroups titled "alt.acting".

Michael

Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
From: pinette@fraser.sfu.ca (Gandolf the 23rd)
Subject: Re: Flash Pots
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 00:33:48 GMT

CONTINUITY LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!

I HATE TO BE BLUNT, BUT THIS IS COMPLETETLY WRONG AND UTTERLY DANGEROUS!!!!!
Continuity when dealing with pyro can only be done "safely" with one thing and
that is a Galvonometre guys!  Even your normal ammeter will set it off, and if
you don't believe me, just ask a guy (seriously his work name) Pyro pete who
does rocks shows mainly...he has been blown up 3 times..and 2 of those times 
by a partner who used an ammeter to test continuity.  The thought of someone
using a continuity light that they made at home is, well, a little scary.

So to anyone out there wanting to try this, I repeat...nix the continuity 
light!    If you are in theatre situations where you have to know if it
is connected properly, spend the money and by a galvonometre...its tested,
approved and it's what the proffessionals use. 


P.S.
I don't mean to be rash but  I know a little a bit about this considering
my roomate is a prof. pyrotechnician. :-)
From: gdrew@cs.umd.edu (Greg Drew)
Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
Subject: Re: Flash Pots
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:41:14 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <1992Apr8.215223.1@uncavx.unca.edu> sweeney@uncavx.unca.edu writes:
>without blowing a breaker.  These are reliable and convenient to fuse; AND THEY
>DON'T COST AN ARM AND A LEG
>                           unless . . .
>you fail in control procedures.  Be sure your circuit has both an "arm" and
>"fire" switch in parallel.  Be sure ONE person is singly responsible for
{some good safety advice deleted}
One additional note.  When I was an undergrad, I saw a pyro system built and
it included a key-switch for arming (and maybe one for firing).  I would 
incorporate both keys into any firing system built.  I have noticed that 
often people will play with things they should not be touching, so being able
to remove the keys is good insurance.  Using a key for firing also prevents
someone from dropping something on/falling into/pushing you onto the firing
switch accidentally.  

Oh, for flash pots, we used metal junction boxes lined with a thick layer of
flameproof cloth.  The powder (a commercial type) was placed on a sturdy 
flameproof disk screwed down through the cloth, and was ignited with a solar
igniter.  The whole thing was covered with firmly attached wide (1/4") mesh
screening and nothing else.  The sound from this completely open design was
VERY loud.
					-- GDD
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Newsgroups: alt.mud.german
From: ramsey@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Deon Ramsey [MW])
Subject: Re: German MUD
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:24:50 GMT

kuokwong@der.Princeton.EDU (Kuok-shoong D. Wong) writes:

>Is there a MUD in which the language used is German?  If so, could somebody
>post a list?  The MUD need not be in a German-speaking country, as long as
>they use German.

To my knowledge, there are no german speaking muds, mushes, or whatnot.
There ARE a few muds physically located in germany, and most players there
will understand german when they hear it, check for site names ending in .de
in any list of muds. One is sent on Rec.games.mud often. If anybody has a site
for a german mud, I think that it would be grand !


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From: kuokwong@der.Princeton.EDU (Kuok-shoong D. Wong)
Newsgroups: alt.mud.german
Subject: German MUD
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:59:39 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

Is there a MUD in which the language used is German?  If so, could somebody
post a list?  The MUD need not be in a German-speaking country, as long as
they use German.

Thanks.
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Newsgroups: alt.mud.german
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:14:48 -0400 
From: "Robert W. Igo" <ri09+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: German Jokes Needed BAD!!
	<92086.012218DED110@psuvm.psu.edu>
	<92086.105029ST02393@auvm.american.edu>
	<1992Mar27.080615.3286@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> 
	<brenner.701702679@nova> <EdpoNem00Vp9IXXFVK@andrew.cmu.edu>

Ja, ich war nicht sicher, dass Ball der oder das war.  Ich haette es nachschla
(nachschlagen) koennen, aber ich war faul.

Leider hat das gar nichts mit Muds zu tun, aber dieses BBoard ist auf Deutsch,
und viele Amis (wie ich) haben nicht viele Chancen, auf Deutsch zu typpen
oder sprechen.  Sollen wir denn aufhoeren, oder?

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Newsgroups: alt.mud.german
From: Andreas.Bartelt@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Andreas Bartelt)
Subject: Re: German MUD
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:14:45 GMT

kuokwong@der.Princeton.EDU (Kuok-shoong D. Wong) writes:

>Is there a MUD in which the language used is German?  If so, could somebody
>post a list?  The MUD need not be in a German-speaking country, as long as
>they use German.

There is mud under construction in Muenster/Germany, called jrmud that is
fully programmed in German. It will open in some month...

At NightFall (134.2.62.161 4242) you can meet very much german speaking
players. Addiotionally there is a system under construction that will
allow you to switch between languages at every time u think of :-)
But currently only the room.c is converted at the system is in a test phase.

So wait some time. If the NightFall system is ready i will anounnce it here.

Bye,
      Tares (NightFall)


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