Not Quite As Long…

…since the last update. I’m getting better at it.

Not a whole lot new since the last post. Still occasionally working on the database bit for Enestvedt’s. It’s slow progress, mostly because I cannot dedicate much time to the project during this next week or so.

But, in other news that’s pseudo-related, I have managed to get the Enestvedt Seeds domain up. It is live, but there’s not yet any content there (see Enestvedt Seeds) aside from the stock page I’m given to start an account. The important thing about the domain name is mostly on the email front right now. I’ve set up a few redirects for email addresses @enestvedtseeds so it goes to the right people, but mostly so that they can start using various addresses at their own domain (and not through their office ISP).

I’ve ‘hired’ my friend Kim (hi, Kim! ) to do some of the graphic design work for the upcoming website…mostly in logo and ‘image’ (overall look) creation. This isn’t just for the website, though…she’ll also be helping me come up with document designs and such for their entire company…which is a definite positive thing (currently each document is pretty much different in some way — this will tie things together much better).

More About Gaslight Girl…

Effective tonight, I’ve finished all the major design work for Gaslight Girl — which was a major undertaking. I had previously drawn up some brief plans for scene design, but hadn’t done anything with them. As auditions are coming up in 9 days, I need to get the design stuff done so I can focus on actually beginning construction (and also have some construction drawings available) on the set and its requirements. Currently…for ‘crazy’ stuff involved with the scene design…is included a bench-fountain piece (water), multiple working gaslights (electrical), and a complete ‘house’ structure with backlit windows. As far as actual set pieces go, there aren’t all that many (fortunately there are three pieces which get reused multiple times), but there are a few large projects which will not be simple, either.

It should be a challenge, and I like that. It should also look very cool…and that will be very important as well.

I’ve also put together ‘the bible’ for the show. Previous One-Act students of mine know very well what the bible is — my large (3″) three-ring binder which is used to keep all pertinent information about the show on hand. As many have known from the past, it starts out small…but by the time of show completion, it’s nearly full. But anyway, I started putting it together with what I’ve currently got…mostly because I’ve got a lot of design things which were getting tough to keep straight. So, it’s a start…and it really means that the show will be starting soon.

I’m quite excited about it, but also quite apprehensively nervous about auditions. I haven’t any sort of clue what sort of crowd to expect…if any crowd at all. I’m planning on doing some ‘recruiting’ this week sometime…mostly by sending out a few emails to key people I’d like to have involved. And we’ll go from there.

But until then…or until more news comes along…

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/25/07