For everyone stuck at a drearily lit desk on a wintry Thursday, feeling like it's one of those days that's all chaff and no wheat, the tag line had undeniable allure: "Life is Hard.
They posted about analyzing classroom "crime scenes," extracting DNA, writing computer code, dissecting eyeballs, lighting desks on fire — and making everything from slime to solar-paneled cars, air cannons, catapults and toothpick bridges.
Early on, they play the lazily melodic Milk, and it is a miracle the lighting desk can get the strobes up and running before the track is over.
Andy looked at me with the disdain the Royal Court staff reserved in those days for arrivistes like me and carefully placed his fourth vodka and tonic of the day down on the lighting desk.
After I clicked on "Go!" the site offered me a choice of a couple of dozen categories to search, including Antique Lamps and Lights, Desk Lamps and Wall Lamps.
At the very start I did think about using a lighting desk, but after speaking to a few lighting programmers, and even speaking to technical support for a number of the biggest lighting desk manufacturers I gave up on that quite early on as it wouldn't have given me the flexibility I needed.
Looking at the current movement of lights, it would probably be quite easy to replicate it with a lighting desk, but it was very important for me to quickly try out many different configurations of timings and speeds.
With the setup I currently have (no lighting desk and all custom software), I can literally change the number of lights from 80 to 90 and instantly all of the behaviours, speeds, tunings for all of the lights will instantly update without me having to change anything else.
Turn on the lighting desk.
Are you running auxiliaries (such as smoke machines) from the lighting desk?
