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It looked so cool though! I haven’t seen that done since 2012, I think.
It looked cool, but I was on the Production committee and so I had to deal with it. #1 the lights were crazy expensive and constantly needing repair. #2 the tape. Oh god the tape. You had to use clear tape. And the tape was expensive. And it took for fucking ever to lay it down. #3 the lights had to be warm. If you lay the lights down cold, then turned them on, they would expand, and come loose, and the whole game would be fucked. #4 the wires for the inner track light had to come down through the ceiling. I fell through the ceiling once, managed not to go all the way but my foot was definitely sticking out and I hurt myself and it sucked because I was skating that night.
And as a photographer, it was kind of yet one more nightmare to deal with the color cast. Sometimes it gave you cool stuff you could deal with, but a lot of the other photographers just immediately came up with ways to cancel it out so you didn’t notice it.
They did look cool. And it was a cool idea.
They switched to using ropes on fluorescent tape the year I stopped doing Production. There was some outcry, but it went away after the first bout when our setup/teardown was over an hour shorter, not counting having to come in early to plug the lights in to warm them up, and the maintenance work they always had to do to make sure the lights all lit up.
I thought I’d notice, as a skater, but honestly, never did.
It looked so cool though! I haven’t seen that done since 2012, I think.
It looked cool, but I was on the Production committee and so I had to deal with it. #1 the lights were crazy expensive and constantly needing repair. #2 the tape. Oh god the tape. You had to use clear tape. And the tape was expensive. And it took for fucking ever to lay it down. #3 the lights had to be warm. If you lay the lights down cold, then turned them on, they would expand, and come loose, and the whole game would be fucked. #4 the wires for the inner track light had to come down through the ceiling. I fell through the ceiling once, managed not to go all the way but my foot was definitely sticking out and I hurt myself and it sucked because I was skating that night.
And as a photographer, it was kind of yet one more nightmare to deal with the color cast. Sometimes it gave you cool stuff you could deal with, but a lot of the other photographers just immediately came up with ways to cancel it out so you didn’t notice it.
They did look cool. And it was a cool idea.
They switched to using ropes on fluorescent tape the year I stopped doing Production. There was some outcry, but it went away after the first bout when our setup/teardown was over an hour shorter, not counting having to come in early to plug the lights in to warm them up, and the maintenance work they always had to do to make sure the lights all lit up.
I thought I’d notice, as a skater, but honestly, never did.
