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Laser F/X On-line Newsletter - Special Reports Urström at the 1999 Stockholm Water Festival
SHOW DIARY Day 6 - Sunday August 8 - Show day 3 Today we started at noon so we had
the luxury of a few more hours of sleep than usual! I discovered a vendor
nearby selling freshly made donuts so was able to purchase a donut and
coffee for 19 SEK (about $2.30 US$ as of August 1999)!
The local production company came up
with another two large smoke machines. We finally obtained permission to
mount a smoke machine on the floating platform below the bridge as
journalists had declined the trip by boat to stand on the bobbing platform
preferring the safety of the VIP viewing area on the restaurant/bar barge
where beer was also readily available. The second smoke machine was mounted
on the edge of one of the barges forming the floating restaurant at the
Parliament end of the site. These machines were RF controlled so we were
told we could control them from anywhere.
In an effort to get more smoke into
the area under the basket laser for the finale, Jan contacted a friend of
his who owned a portable gasoline powered smoke machine. The machine was
brought on site and promptly dubbed the bazooka due to it's shape and size.
It was taken out in one of the boats for a trial run in the late afternoon.
Unfortunately, while it made lots of smoke, it sounded like an overgrown
chainsaw and was not suitable for use in the show due to the loud noise.
Radios became an issue today. Adela had requested sufficient radios for each of the crew who were vital to the production. People kept taking them and we seemed to be always one or two short. To solve the problem, Adela made labels and marked each radio with the name of the person who was to use it. This cut down on problems somewhat but in the process we discovered we were still short and more phone calls had to be made to the festival production manager who came up with two more radios minutes before show time. Unfortunately they had not been charged and thus ran out half way through the show.
The time code transmission to the
beam laser system on the Opera side of the site failed. Arvid had to start
the DSP manually, listening to Örjan's cue over the radio.
The show this evening was much improved. With the breeze blowing in the usual NW direction, smoke coverage was good and the beams were more visible. Jan had added additional beams from the fiber projectors, the Palace projections were flawless and the crowd seemed to enjoy the show much more with lots of cheering and whistles throughout and at the finale.
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