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From the basics of physical forces and mathematical formulas to performer flying and stage automation, Entertainment Rigging for the 21st Century provides you with insider information into rigging systems and the skills you need to safely operate them. Over the past decade, the entertainment industry has witnessed major changes in rigging technology, as manually operated rigging has given way to motorized systems in both permanent and touring productions, and greater attention has been paid to standardizing safety practices. This book leads you through what is currently happening in the industry, why it’s happening, and how.

Accessible for riggers and non-riggers alike, it contains details on the technology and methodology used to achieve the startling effects found in concerts and stage shows. With a foreword written by Monona Rossol, this text contains contributions from industry leaders including: Rocky Paulson Bill Gorlin Tray Allen Roy Bickel Keith Bohn Karen Butler Stuart Cox Bill Sapsis Dan Culhane Eddie Raymond Chris Higgs Carla Richters Joe McGeough Scott Fisher. Automated Performer Flying: The State of the Art shares the secrets of performer flying in the entertainment history and provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a performer flying effect from scratch.

This book sheds light on all aspects of performer flying, covering its history, explaining concepts like mechanical compensation vs. Electrical compensation, providing guidance on how to calculate stopping distances and forces, and sharing tips how to build successful relationships with performers. Case studies of prominent productions featuring performer flying, including Cirque du Soleil and Beyonc, are included throughout.

Written for technical directors, theatrical riggers, and students of rigging, technical direction, and stagecraft courses, Automated Performer Flying takes readers through the process of creating a performer flying effect from the first spark of the idea to opening night. The application of electricity for the theatre or a concert stage is not the same as for a residence or commercial building.

Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician provides you with the fundamentals of theory of electricity as well as the latest guidelines and tips for how to stay safe, current and meet the needs of the entertainment industry. Written by an ETCP (Entertainment Technician Certification Program) trainer this reference supports practicing technicians and provides new technicians the assistance needed for a successful career in the entertainment industry.

The only reference on electricity for the entertainment industry professional!. Written by an ETCP (Entertainment Technician Certification Program) trainer and seasoned professional.

Free additional practice problems and animations at www.electricityentertainmenttech.com. Over 300 illustrations and drawings; over 150 photographs Toshiro Ogawa's masterpiece, Theatre Engineering and Stage Machinery, is a unique reference work. It covers every aspect of theatrical machinery and stage technology in global terms. With no less than 301 illustrations and drawings and 168 photographs it is a 'must' title for every technical director or designer of performance buildings.

Joel Rubin of Artec Consultants of New York says in his Foreword: 'Toshiro Ogawa is a working technical director, lighting designer and theatre consultant fully experienced with theatre, ballet and opera production. Additionally, he has practised these skills in the staging technologies of Europe, North America and Asia.'

In his leading Foreword, Richard Brett, theatre consultant and Chairman of the Association of British Theatre Technicians, states: 'With his varied international theatre background, Toshiro Ogawa is in a good position to compare the technical installations of European, American and Asian Theatres. He has now used this experience to research and compile this book, first published in Japanese, but now available to those of us who only have English in our vocabulary.' Theatre Engineering and Stage Engineering was first published by Ohm-sha in Japan in April 2000. The English-language publication by Entertainment Technology Press, launched at the ABTT Theatre Show in London on 4th April 2001, is produced on a print-on-demand format, enabling purchasers of the title access to up-dates and additions to the content. This book breaks down complex entertainment rigging (theatre and arena) calculations and makes them easy to understand. It also provides hints for remembering many rigging formulas.

It is a great resource for anyone studying for either ETCP rigging exam, and includes an explanation of the equations found on the ETCP Certified Rigger - Formula Table. The third edition has a greatly expanded section on arena rigging, as well as more material and appendices for theatrical rigging.

Also, this edition has links to even more free downloads of Excel workbooks for arena rigging. Beginning riggers will find this an excellent textbook and experience riggers will find it as a great reference book. Everybody has the dream: Build a boat in the backyard and sail off to join the happy campers off Pogo Pogo, right? Assuming you aren't independently wealthy, if you want a boat that's really you, you gotta build it yourself. Backyard boatbuilding has its problems.

Building in fiberglass is itchy, smelly, and yields a product that yachting maven L. Francis Herreshoff once called 'frozen snot.' Ferrocement, once all the rage, has pretty much sunk from favor, if you catch the drift. But there's still wood, right?

Nature's perfect material. You can build in the time-honored traditions of the Golden Age of Yachting, loving crafting intricate joints in rare tropical hardwoods, steaming swamp oak butts to sinuous shapes, holding the whole thing together with nonferrous fastenings that cost a buck or better each. Does that sound like boatbuilding for everyperson? What about the currently fashionable wood/epoxy boatbuilding? You butter regular old wood with Miracle Whip, stick it together in the shape of a boat, and off you go, right? Epoxy works, but They don't exactly give it away; nor is it exactly a benign substance. Suiting up like Homer Simpson heading for a fun-filled day at the nuclear power plant isn't exactly the aesthetic boatbuilding experience many of us are looking for.

Where does that leave us? In the capable hands of George Buehler, who honors the timeless traditions of the sea all right, but those from the other side of the boatyard tracks. Buehler draws his inspiration from centuries of workboat construction, where semiskilled fishermen built rugged, economical boats from everyday materials in their own backyards, and went to sea in them in all kinds of weather, not just when it was pleasant. Buehler's boats sail on every ocean and perform every task, from long-term liveaboards in Norwegian fjords to a traveling doctor's office in Alaska. This book contains complete plans for seven cruising boats-from a 28-foot sailboat to a 55-foot power cruiser.

All the information you need is here, including step-by-step instructions honed by nearly 20 years of supplying boat plans to backyard builders-and helping them out when they get into trouble. Buehler is anarchic, heretical, and occasionally profane; his book is West Coast counterculture meets traditional hardchine workboat construction, leavened with hardnosed common sense and penny-pinching economy. This book is for those who look around them and see that much of what is done in the world today-whether in yachting or politics or economics or interpersonal relationships-is based not on logic but on conforming and meeting other people's expectations. This book is most definitely NOT about either.

It is about the realization of dreams. If you believe that everyone who wants a cruising boat can have one. If you see beauty beneath the fish scales and work scars of a commercial fishing boat.

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If you want to build a simple, rugged, economical, good-looking cruising boat-power or sail-using everyday lumberyard materials and few skills other than perseverance, this is the book for you. Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding tells you how to build extraordinary boats using the most ordinary skills and materials, with complete plans, instructions, and specifications for seven real cruising boats ranging from a 28-foot sailboat to a 55-foot power cruiser. 'Build wooden boats the Buehler way, which is to say inexpensively, yet like the proverbial brick outhouse.'

-WoodenBoat Richly flavored with personal advice and anecdotes as well as a wealth of valuable information.' -American Sailing Association 'Everyone will revere this book.' -The Ensign. 'May you live in interesting times' has taken on a new alarming meaning. We've all heard commentators saying 'you can't make this stuff up.'

These 'times' have all the elements of Absurdism and, thus, the main title of this book, 'Waiting for Someone to Explain It.' It is a term expressed by playwright Eugene Ionesco, who said 'As the world is incomprehensible to me, I'm waiting for someone to explain it.' The book's subtitle, 'The Rise of Contempt and Decline of Sense' narrows the 'world' down to American politics, cultural values and fiscal affairs at the onset of the 21st century.

Its author, Robert Hagelstein, maintained a blog during this period, contemporaneously commenting on, and documenting, the datum of this rise and fall. In 'Waiting for Someone to Explain It; The Rise of Contempt and Decline of Sense,' he chronologically presents them and weaves a narrative which reads as a whodunit but without a singular smoking gun. There are many, and one intersects with another, resulting in the normalization of contemptible behavior and the inexplicable abandonment of fiscal and legislative common sense. Be prepared to meet the major players in this drama; Environmental Issues, Trumpism, Obama Hope, Gun Control (or the lack of) and Mass Shootings, Income Inequality, Racial Issues, Tax Reform, the Financial Crisis and Deficit Spending, Societal Polarization, Government Impairment, Stock Market Decline and Recovery, Inflation Vs. Deflation, Foreign Relations, Election Primaries and Rigging, Job Creation, Gaslighting and Fake News, Celebrity Culture and Anti-Intellectualism (to name a few). These players come and go in the drama, rising and falling on the sea of news cycles that assault societal consciousness.

Even though the book does not purport to have the 'answers' reading 'Waiting for Someone to Explain It' is a compelling argument that 'we have met the enemy and he is us. 'Thoughtful and wise, Robert Hagelstein's 'Waiting for Someone to Explain It, ' offers an illuminating, much-needed depiction of how we have arrived at our current politically contemptuous state - and how the party of austerity has given the U.S. Its largest and steadily growing deficit. Must reading for anyone interested in the political and economic challenges currently facing our country.' .Ron Chambers, Former Director, Naval Institute Press 'Bob Hagelstein has the gift of being able to seamlessly weave whimsical commentary about our daily lives with insightful observations about our turbulent times.

Reading 'Waiting for Someone to Explain It' is like sitting down to dinner with dear friends - the conversation just goes where it goes, sometimes serious or poignant, other times ironic or funny. Bob has graced us with musings on the blog from which this book draws for more than a decade now.

In a way, I don't want 'someone to explain it, ' because reading Bob's efforts to figure it all out while he's waiting is far more enriching and entertaining.David Einhorn, Editor, writer, and professional musician. 'On one level 'Waiting for Someone to Explain It' chronicles with Pepysian precision the political and cultural progress of our time. Hagelstein's sharp sense of the absurd allows both penetrating commentary and humor.

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Our own days are enhanced as we meet the author commenting on events readers knew or witnessed.Bruce Rettman, former Co-director of the Boston Writing Project and NEH Hemingway scholar English Department Chair. Succinct and jargon free, Stage Rigging Handbook remains the only book in any language that covers the design, operation, and maintenance of stage rigging equipment. It is written in an at-a-glance outline form, yet contains in-depth information available nowhere else.

This second edition includes two new parts: the first, and expanded discussion of the forces and loads on stage rigging components and the structure supporting them; the second, an examination of block and tackle rigging. The remaining four parts contain numerous revisions. Explaining his purpose, Jay O. Glerum points out that four main principles make up the core of this book: know the rigging system; know that it is in safe working order; know how to use it; keep your concentration. Glerum applies these principles to all of the major types of stage rigging systems, including block and tackle, hemp, counterweight, and motorized. He describes each type of rigging, then thoroughly reviews the operating procedures and ways of inspecting existing systems. He's not the perfect husband.

But he is the perfect suspect. Dan Cooper has never been the perfect husband to Lisa. He travels for work and plays the carefree bachelor when he can. But now, on a solo business trip, in a remote coastal hotel, he’s surprised to find Lisa in his bathroom. He has no idea how she got there but one chilling fact is clear: everything points to Dan having murdered her.

Someone is trying to frame him. Someone who might still be watching. In a panic, he goes on the run. But even as he flees across Europe, his unknown enemy stacks up the evidence against him. Dan is determined to clear his name and take revenge on Lisa’s killer, but the culprit is closing in. And then there’s the agony of his own guilty conscience.

No, he didn’t kill her—but is it all his fault? An engrossing analysis of the pseudo-democratic methods employed by despots around the world to retain control Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves.

Based on their firsthand experiences as election watchers and their hundreds of interviews with presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, election officials, and conspirators, Cheeseman and Klaas document instances of election rigging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, including notable examples from Brazil, India, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States—touching on the 2016 election. This eye-opening study offers a sobering overview of corrupted professional politics, while providing fertile intellectual ground for the development of new solutions for protecting democracy from authoritarian subversion.

Entertainment Rigging By Harry Donovan PdfAn introduction to rigging in the entertainment industry, Chris Higgs, May 1, Stage machinery, pages. A study of controversy in secondary education October, Albert Donavon Graves, Education, pages. Warmly colored, and richly adorned with lace, beads, satin,. The seventh edition of Mechanical Engineering Design marks areturn to the basic approaches that have made this book the standard in machine design for over 40 years. The Technical Briefis a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by theprestigious Yale School of Drama.

Arena rigging a practical guide for riggers, designers, and managers, Harry Donovan, Performing Arts, pages. As the colder weather approaches, event production crews may find themselves with a little bit of free time. Glerum has become an industry staple.

This go-to guide is to the point and provides an understanding of the rigging system, how to operate each type of rigging, and maintaining and inspecting your equipment. Whether you read it cover-to-cover or keep it on site as a handy reference guide, this book is a must-have for individuals concerned with safe and proper rigging techniques. Taking into account the major changes our industry has seen in recent years, this book is great for recognizing the leaps and bounds of our modern trade and the technology and practices that have gotten us to this point. This book is one of our favorites for its breakdown of everyday work skills and the easiest on-the-job solutions that make us all happy. It is geometry and engineering intensive, but focuses on real-world, practical applications for those involved with arena, theatre, coliseum and sound stage rigging, with applications across a number of other industries.Over the past decade, the entertainment industry has witnessed major changes in rigging technology, as manually operated rigging has given way to motorized systems in both permanent and touring productions, and greater attention has been paid to standardizing safety practices. Donovan, Published: 18th February.

Upcoming EventsBy Jay O. Glerum has become an industry staple. This go-to guide is to the point and provides an understanding of the rigging system, how to operate each type of rig, also touches on maintaining and inspecting your equipment. Whether you read it cover-to-cover or keep it on site as a handy reference guide, this book is a must-have for individuals concerned with safe and proper rigging techniques. Taking into account the major changes our industry has seen in recent years; this book is great for recognizing the leaps and bounds of our modern trade and the technology and practices that have gotten us to this point. Bill has had a long-standing relationship with the MTN Shop team over the years and has led numerous onsite training sessions at our Global Headquarters in North America.

The book became one of our favorites for its breakdown of everyday work skills and the easiest on-the-job solutions that allow for practical efficiency onsite.