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Laser F/X On-line Newsletter - Special Reports Urström at the 1999 Stockholm Water Festival
SHOW DIARY Day 7 - Monday August 9 - Show day 4 The day dawned with an annoyingly
steady cold, miserable rain. During the night, the scrim flown from the
Opera House had been ripped from it's wire by the wind and had to be rescued
from the water and dried out. The rescuers jokingly complained that there
were no fish caught in it!
A larger heater was brought in to dry out the master control area. Jan had to spend some time with a screwdriver and hairdryer disassembling the DSP and drying out the boards. He jokingly suggested that future models should be made waterproof.
The crew all worked double time to
cover everything within the supposedly waterproof scaffolding with extra
tarps and plastic sheets. A second layer of tarps was installed under the
roof tarps provided by the festival and crew members had to take turns going
around the area and lifting the tarps to drain the puddles that formed every
few minutes.
Nobody with the guts to ride the
basket had been found to replace Adela. A meeting with Jan, Adela and the
festival producers ensued in which they convinced Adela to continue her
nightly daredevil act over the water and agreed to pay her for her services.
The show went ahead flawlessly and was the best to date. The breeze co-operated and we had plenty of smoke. The cloud cover was so low that we could see the laser dots at the endpoints of the beams on the clouds. The smaller than usual audience was very appreciative although the maroons at the end of the show failed to fire as the ignitors had become damp.
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