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A nice new video with some behind the scenes stuff of the show I worked on last year

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7377893

2x Quad core 3GHz Xeon
16 GB memory (8x Kingston DDR2 6400)
1 TB single harddrive 7200 RPM
2x DVD-R drives
GeForce 120 GT graphics card

We're walking in the air

I’ve just finished working on a decently epic project, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a theatre show taking place both physically and story-wise in the middle of London. The show is a high aiming production with a sizable budget and probably more technology crammed into a tent than has ever been attempted for a stage show before.

Ten giant high powered projectors embedded into the centre stage beam outwards over the audience’s heads to illuminate the inside of the tent which doubles up as a projection screen. With no internal structure holding the tent up, this means everyone gets an uninterrupted view. The 3D video is projected at 10,000 pixels wide, but with the overlap it ends up around 8.500 pixels wide as it goes 360º around the tent. Working on the video were

Bill Dudley – Set, costume and video designer
Tim Clapham - Effects and Compositing
Janine Pauke - Lighting and composition
Michael Vance - Neverland artist
Alex Cox – Editing and Projection
And myself, working as London flight artist and TD

The show runs in London from 10th June for a few months, then plans are already underway for an international tour, starting with North America

During our desperate scouring for food we managed to find a bar called Original Joe’s; quite why this bar has an english sounding name I have no idea, theres nothing english speaking about it, especially Maria.

We picked this bar largely because it was open and also because they were still serving their single menu item: Grande Toastie! Its a toasted cheese and ham sandwich which when you havent eaten for 12 hours is most delicious.

The best bit of this bar though is Maria. Maria is the loud, usually drunken barmaid who is desperate for every bit of attention you would care to give her. At random intervals she will pull out a giant rubber penis and start hugging it, this thing is about the size of a cat. So large is Maria’s penis (I assume its hers) that she uses it to store a second slightly smaller penis inside, Its like a penis version of a russian doll.

Maria follows her responsible drinking rules very carefully, if she asks you want you want and you tell her you’ve had enough and are going home, she will ask you again. You *will* be asked what you want until you pick a drink. If you don’t pick anything, or if you do anything else to invoke her wrath you will have to endure a sudden stealthy nipple twist as punishment.

Even if you do pick a drink, don’t expect her to give you what you ordered, just be glad if you get something that even vaguely resembles what you asked for. A rum and coke can apparently be any combination of rum, vodka, coke, soda or gin.