Make Molding with SketchUp

Popular Woodworking Magazine: When it comes time to make moldings with SketchUp, many woodworkers struggle. They get the hang of making each piece a component, and figure out that a molding is simply an extruded face. Where things go south is when it comes time to turn a corner; how can that be accomplished with as little blood, sweat and tears as possible? The answer is “Follow Me”, a tool that isn’t used often. Follow Me does what Push/Pull does; it turns a two-dimensional face into a three-dimensional object. Push/Pull is limited to extruding at a right angle to the original face. Follow Me can take that same face and extrude it around a ninety-degree corner or along a curve. Here is a typical scenario for applying a molding to a cabinet.

Alec Baldwin: How Broadway Has Changed

www.huffingtonpost.com: Our Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans will close on Sunday, May 19th, well in advance of its scheduled end-of-run on June 30th. I have not acted in a legit show on Broadway since A Streetcar Named Desire in 1992, having chosen the not-for-profit route on Broadway or regional for my last four shows. Broadway has changed in the past 21 years and I wanted take a moment to look at that.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), an internationally recognized presenter of contemporary performing arts and cinema, seeks a full-time Production Supervisor who will play a key role in supervising and hands-on running all technical aspects of BAM presentations, productions, rentals and special events. The Production Supervisor reports to the Production Manager.  This position begins July 2013.
Job Responsibilities:

• Supervise and manage events and shows throughout BAM on our mainstages, in our café and throughout the BAM campus
• Perform advance work for productions including technical and budget analysis, arrangement of equipment rentals and detailing and scheduling of technical staff and stagehands
• Work with artists, musicians, BAM general management staff, union stagehands, wardrobe personnel, and stage managers to present the highest quality shows and events
• Production Stage Manage auxiliary events
• Provide day to day management of long run productions
• Other duties as assigned
   

To access more information about this position, please advance to http://BrooklynAcademy.appone.com and use the search feature to find the position.

Beatles Concert Show 'Let It Be' Coming to Broadway

NYTimes.com: For a group that split up more than four decades ago and never reunited, the Beatles are certainly finding plenty of opportunities to appear on Broadway. “Let It Be,” a popular British concert show based around the band’s music, will make its mop-topped way from the West End to Broadway this summer, press representatives for the production said on Wednesday.

Kirk McDonald: Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You

WSJ.com: Dear college graduates: The next month is going to be thrilling as you cross this major milestone in your education. Enjoy the pomp and circumstance, the congratulations, and the parties. But when it's all over and you're ready to go out into the world, you'd probably like to meet me, or others like me—I'm your next potential dream boss. I run a cool, rapidly growing company in the digital field, where the work is interesting and rewarding. But I've got to be honest about some unfortunate news: I'm probably not going to hire you.

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Infographic: 19 Emotions For Which English Has No Words

Co.Design: business + innovation + design: We’ve all heard that the Inuit people have countless words for snow. That’s a bit of a misnomer, but the sentiment is powerful all the same: Some cultures have rewritten language itself in order to better express the things most important to them. It’s an idea explored in this infographic by design student Pei-Ying Lin, which lists 19 emotions that, unless you’re a native speaker of Russian, Japanese, or any number of languages other than English, you’ve probably never heard before.

A House Built Close to the Train, but Only Temporarily

NYTimes.com: Among the items that have passed through or made a temporary home in Grand Central Terminal in the last 100 years: Three elephants on the way to a circus in Boston; an art school; a tennis court; a Redstone rocket; a Philippe Petit tightrope walk; a model train show. And now, a two-story house. Over the weekend, two teams of 50 construction workers each toiled for 48 hours to raise a 21-foot-high, 1,540-square-foot living space in Vanderbilt Hall, the vast marble-floored entryway near 42nd Street.

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German Nazi-themed opera cancelled after deluge of complaints

World news | guardian.co.uk: A controversial Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser has been cancelled after it caused some audience members to seek medical help and prompted others to walk out in anger. The Rheinoper in Düsseldorf said it was in a state of shock after being deluged with complaints by members of the public who called the opera tasteless and unnecessarily provocative.

Hollywood Fears New York’s Gun Control Laws May Stymie Filming

NYTimes.com: Officials in the movie and television industry say the new laws could prevent them from using the lifelike assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that they have employed in shows like “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and films like “The Dark Knight Rises.”

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6 Mistakes To Avoid When Building An Online Portfolio

www.lifehack.org: Online portfolios are great. They allow you to be found faster in Google searches. They provide a one-stop-shop for employers to find out more about what you have to offer. They also show off your creative side. But when done incorrectly, online portfolios can really ruin your chances of landing a job interview! The thing with online portfolios is that you have great reign over what you choose to include, upload, and write in your online portfolio. That being said, not all of it is going to be the right choice for your job search goals.

Pittsburgh in the running as an American LED streetlamp city and manufacturing center

www.popcitymedia.com: Pittsburgh is one of three cities in the running to become a model LED streetlamp city and North American headquarters for a state-of-the-art lighting company from Slovenia. Grah Lighting of Slovenia, which has bathed quaint towns in the Baltics in an energy-efficient white light, met with officials in Pittsburgh this month. The company also makes LED lighting for high-end cars like Mercedes, Audi and BMW.

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Careers At Aspen Music Festival: The Aspen Music Festival and School (Aspen, CO) seeks a seasonal Technical Director to manage the implementation of scenic and electrical design elements of the Aspen Opera Theater Center’s (AOTC) summer season of three (3) fully staged opera productions plus weekly scenes master classes over an eight (8) week season.

A New Monster of a Musical has Multiple Sources of Music.

The Producer's Perspective: If you haven’t heard, a musical version of King Kong is set to debut Down Under on June 15th. And, well, since one of the most famous scenes in the movie of Kong features that hunk of an ape hanging off the Empire State Building, it wouldn’t take a Scientist on Skull Island to figure out that the creators and producers have the Big Apple in their sights.

How Punchdrunk conquered Manhattan

Stage | The Observer: They came, they saw and they conquered the hearts of the notoriously discerning audiences of New York. As the experimental "immersive" dance-drama troupe Punchdrunk prepares to return to Britain this summer, where the company will embark on a high-profile collaboration with the National Theatre, luminaries of New York's alternative scene are lavish in their tributes.

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Technical Designer/Draftsman sought for junior position within Engineering Department

 We are a large New York fabricator, specializing in the Theatrical and Television entertainment industry. We are currently accepting applications for an entry level position within our Engineering department. You should have practical fabrication experience (carpentry, cabinet making, welding, etc)  and be familiar with fabrication techniques used within the Theatrical or Interior Architectural Industries. Autocad proficiency required. Experience with Autodesk Inventor, 3Ds MAX, Adobe Illustrator, and/or Photoshop would be beneficial.  To meet the demands of the fast paced and technically challenging world of modern television and theater, you should have a flexible schedule that would allow you to work more than eight hours a day on short notice and potentially work on weekends. This is an hourly position with Health benefits and 401K.  

Please have anyone interested send their resume with cover letter and references to resume@showfab.com. 

Is Your File Name Lazy? Subtle (And Thoughtless) Resume Mistakes

Fast Company | Business + Innovation: A resume is a short and precious thing: one page of text for six seconds of review. As the hummingbird attention span suggests, the recruiter glancing at your resume will trash it at the slightest provocation--and you would too, if you had hundreds or thousands of CVs to churn through. So, then, dear job-hunter, you would do well to embolden your text where appropriate and restrain yourself when necessary. This will make your recruiters' job easier--and the chance that you land the job higher.

Film to Stage

www.stage-directions.com: The hit musical The Bodyguard, now running at London’s Adelphi Theatre, turns the popular 1992 Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner film into a stage musical starring Heather Headley as the superstar singer Rachel Marron and Lloyd Owen as Frank Farmer, the former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard. The fact that the movie featured music including the hit song “I Will Always Love You,” was a bonus for the producers, but the move from film to stage of any story brings its own challenges. For scenic designers, they often need to bring the film’s multiple locations to life on a single stage.

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Pig Iron Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA), an OBIE award-winning, interdisciplinary ensemble company dedicated to the creation of new performance works, is seeking a new Production Manager.  Responsibilities of the Production Manager include: staffing all productions, managing technical staff, maintaining budgets and logistics for new productions and tours, negotiating technical details of contracts with venues, scheduling and maintaining the production calendar, and maintaining Pig Iron's inventory and storage space for touring shows. 

Excellent communication skills and proficiency in Excel are required.  Previous stage management and/or technical direction experience is desired; knowledge of Vectorworks is important.  Ideal candidates will have proven leadership ability as well as an ability to partner with designers to bring ambitious, complex designs to fruition.

Salary is competitive for a comparable full-time position, and includes a health benefits plan.  Please submit a cover letter and resume to John Frisbee, Managing Director, at johnf@pigiron.org.