Austin Improv

Sign me up for Saturday, August 11th. As "The Handychick" I can offer an extra set of hands in additon to tools, a level of expertise in electrics, painting, plumbing, carpentry or whatever. I can even pretend to put a plan together or look like I'm supervising.

I also bake cookies. . . but don't let this fool you into thinking I loose any of my powers when wearing my toolbelt.

cheers,
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like most of CT, I too will be out of town (just not at the DCF...I will be in Dallas). Can you or someone make a list of things that can be done at a slightly later date? Perhaps things that were not finished or required different tools/ expertise than was available. I want to help out if I can.

Also...make curtains??? Really??? I know they are expensive to buy, but that is going to be tough. You can't skimp on the fabric. You had better go ahead and buy all you can b/c it will take a bunch. You will also want to make sure you get it all at the same time. If you have to buy it from multiple stores or at different times, then you might not get a good color match. That will REALLY show up under the stage lights.

Any consideration to building flats to cover up-center and up-right and then just having a curtain for up-left? Would be cheaper, more durable, easy to take down and put up...you could build in a permanent projection screen if you like.

I can't sign up for a specific slot yet - but I'll be there.

What's the status on the A/C these days?? I know an excellent guy if you need a recommendation.

-Mike

yeah, don't worry about the lights other than making sure they all have bulbs in them. ace and i are going to plot them out although i don't think they've moved too much since last year's fest.

for painting, yes it looks like we're going to be painting in both spaces and what we are going to paint is yet to be determined. we'll come up with our plans and work out a way to make sure there is no double painting going on cuz that would just be silly.

cool.

Count me in as helping on Saturday. Not sure which timeslot I can fill yet, but I'll know as the day gets closer.

Besides being in total agreement with the sorry state of the toilets (which I have some experience now with the new house), I didn't see anything about the stage itself. The stage could use some basic mending. Maybe make it a bit more sturdy if possible. Definitely give it a new paint job and cover up some of the more exposed seams.

I will be out of town that weekend.

mcnichol wrote:Well, just to get a handle on stuff, Andy do you know what is wrong with the toilet? I've never really asked -- is it leaking? or stopped up? If we know what it is we can probably bring the right tools/books and fix this ourselves without having to rely on a plumber. Or pay a plumber.

The tank is cracked. Which means we either repair the tank, replace the tank, replace the toilet (in order of increasing expense). Mike Kinald swears he can caulk it, so I'm gonna beg him to take a crack at that and see what happens. Sorry it's taken so long to get around to, but dealing with toilets is maybe one of my least favorite things of all time.

cheers wrote:Sign me up for Saturday, August 11th. As "The Handychick" I can offer an extra set of hands in additon to tools, a level of expertise in electrics, painting, plumbing, carpentry or whatever. I can even pretend to put a plan together or look like I'm supervising.

I also bake cookies. . . but don't let this fool you into thinking I loose any of my powers when wearing my toolbelt.

cheers,

Cheers, who are you in the real world?

improvstitute wrote:Any consideration to building flats to cover up-center and up-right and then just having a curtain for up-left? Would be cheaper, more durable, easy to take down and put up...

Hmm. I like this idea. What exactly would building a flat entail? Would we hang them from the ceiling?

-Andy

i would be careful about making too many structural changes to the set upstairs. if i don't like it and some of you know how i am, i'll just change it would be annoying for everyone. if some people want to help us put it into some kind of new arrangement after teh festival, i'm very down.

beard

beardedlamb wrote:i would be careful about making too many structural changes to the set upstairs. if i don't like it and some of you know how i am, i'll just change it would be annoying for everyone. if some people want to help us put it into some kind of new arrangement after teh festival, i'm very down.

beard

I think we're talking about downstairs, as far as curtains and finding a solution to the currently shitty curtain situation.

I would like to have a discussion with the powers that be prior to this activity. One week after OOB is the launch of the new season of Start Trekkin, and I'd like to see if there's a way to consider both productions in the revitalizing-redecorating of the upstairs theatre.

Oh, and live long and prosper.

I'm in for helping out Saturday, definitely morning, probably afternoon as well.

we should set up a quick meeting at the hideout for anyone who is interested in how the thing is going to look during and after oob. ace gets in on the 6th of august so maybe sometime that week before the appreciation day happens.

how is everyone for tuesday, august 7th from 7-8?

beardedlamb wrote:how is everyone for tuesday, august 7th from 7-8?

I'm out of town August 3-8. Maybe the 9th?