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date: "2022-09-04T00:00:00Z"
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title: Lights! ...
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The kid has been gearing up to record an audition video for a dance company,
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and I've been studying up on how to set up lights, so it looks cool.
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I think I did pretty well,
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for about $140 worth of parts.
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It's primarily clamp lights,
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and some el cheapo colored acrylic from Amazon
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that I cut with Amy's CNC cutting machine.
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Also some aluminum foil.
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I know now that this is just standard 3-point lighting,
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that somebody smarter than me figured out.
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Looks pretty good though!
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That back light provides a sort of halo, to give depth on the screen.
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And the colors against the black fabric (bedsheets) provide texture.
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That's about all I know about lighting so far.
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For sound, we played music through a mixer,
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and hard panned both channels to the left side.
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The dance pad has a mic inside it,
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that we hard-panned to the right.
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Hopefully this makes it so the postprocessing can mix feet in with stereo music.
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I was up until 01:00 porting woozle's stuff over to a more unified login.
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You still need three different passwords for various things,
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but at least now it feels a little more like a single offering.
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Today I moved my web site (and this blog) off of GitHub,
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which provided web hosting for free.
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Now it's on my cloud VM,
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which is also free (because it's so dinky small),
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but should be easy enough to move elsewhere if I need to.
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And with that, I think most of my work is back on stuff I own.
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I tell you what, though,
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WebDAV is a lot nicer than I gave it credit for.
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I've got my NAS on the public Internet now,
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password protected,
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and being able to get to my files from anywhere is pretty handy.
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