Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Ultra Fest Underway Despite LED Screen Collapse
CBS Miami: Ultra Music Festival went on as planned Friday despite a stage-related accident that sent three people to the hospital Thursday night.
Thousands of neon-clad revelers packed Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami for Ultra 15, the world’s largest electronic music festival.
“The music makes you move. You just don’t want to stop moving. Once I walk in that gate. I’m going to just jump around,” Chris Chapman said. The man from Houston was visiting Miami for his 30th birthday. It was his first time attending Ultra.
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Im curious though as to what kind of attachment was in place that failed with the LED wall, as tragic as it is to have stagehands injured atleast it wasnt anyone in the public. Did i miss a part though in this article about whether or not it fell during set up or were they already finished setting up that stage? Ive heard enough about ultra, I want to know what happened.
Like Sean, I feel like this article got a little bit side-tracked towards the end; too much about neon-clad Ultra fans, not enough about the reason I clicked on the article title. With every article about stage accidents, I wonder more and more whether or not we can truly make this industry safe. Sure we can spread awareness, revise safety booklets and schedule more inspections; in the end, it appears that the performance industry involved too many dangerous factors to truly avoid all potential accidents. I do hope I'm wrong.
to respond to camille, I think to make theatre and entertainment safe would be to not do it at all. The nature of this industry is to push boundaries and do crazier and crazier things that appear impossible. As much as id like to avoid bringing up the show, Spiderman does just that and now one of the reasons (not the only reason, but a solid reason) why a lot of people chose to go see it is to see spiderman fall and get hurt. this is just a testimony to our human nature since the days of gladiators. We like to see people get hurt. So part of our industry has been making people do things that we shouldn't be able to do. So a majority of our audiences want to see performers do these incredible things but at the same time we want to see them mess up.
So back to the point of can we make this industry truly safe.
I do not think we can, nor do i think it should be the goal to make it truly safe. We are trying to push the boundary with what we are capable of and what is the "safeEST" way to do that. if we make it truly safe we would have to just stop doing it.
Any scene shop that is just trying to build a show for the performers is surrounded with hazards with all the tools and machinery, the only way to make something truely safe is to stop using the tools and machinery but then we lose the product.
What we can concentrate on is making people use safER practices and be aware of how to reduce odds of accidents.
My point with this hines-worthy-rant is that even in the safest condition, accidents still happen regardless of what ever book or standard we followed and how ever many people signed off saying its safe, Accidents happen. All we can do is put in our best effort to make sure they don't happen.
To respond to Sean responding to Camille responding to Sean, to make anything completely safe we would just have to not do it. I could walk outside of my house right now and be attacked by a pack of rabid deer or and overly excited Pittsburgh Penguins fan. Freak accidents happen all the time, and only so much can be doen to guard against them. For example, I wear a bullet proof vest underneath a full suit of armor fashioned by the medieval knights themselves to ward off the aforementioned disasters. I also have strings of garlic snaked around all my limbs to ward off the vampires. People often just think I am overweight and have forgotten how to shower, but that's the price you pay.
In conclusion, shit happens. It's unfortunate that the Ultra disaster occurred, and I'm sure somewhere along the line it was someone's mistake, but we may never know who to blame. The audience probably just views it as a one time happening, and I doubt they will let it detract form their enjoyment of the event. Well, all the talk about the neon clad Ultra freaks makes that fairly evident toward the end of the article, I suppose.
I am curious if this was a gigantic and tragic incident because none of my friends who attended UMF on that day mentioned about, so I had no clue about this incident until I read this article. Reading at this article, it seemed fairly big accident that injured three people, but it is good to see how eveything went fine and the show continued on the next day. I was amused how fast the crew and people in charge worked through in order not to disappoint the audiences. I agree that in this industry, it will be hard for it to make this industry entirely safe. However, I hope that people can recheck and make sure more than once, so that this kind of incident does not happen anymore. Also, for this kind famous show that everyone from every nation comes to enjoy, I hope people can be extra careful, so that people can enjoy without any concern.
ULTRA!!!! I'm glad that this accident only injured 3 people. There have been many worse cases of injuries and deaths at Ultra so it's nice to see that no one has died from this incident. The one problem I found with this though was that they went into no detail about why this occurred and just went off topic to discuss the festival itself. It's great to know that the fire marshals made sure the stages were safe, but still why did that happen? We don't know. I'm going to end by saying that I'm really upset I missed Ultra this year. That is all.
I'm glad to hear an accident like this did not inhibit the event, as theatre goes. It's sad that accidents like this happen, but it's good to hear that the people are recovering. Although there are a lot of articles about theatre related injuries, I do think that theaters in general are very safe, and that stagehands are very good at taking appropriate safety precautions. I do feel we work in a safe industry, and it's sad that accidents do happen. I would love to know what happened that cause the LEDs to fall!
In response to jason- OMG ULTRA!!!!!!!! #MIAMI #SOBE #RAVE #THISISUNREAL #YAYNOMOLLY #SOBERINGUP
Well we've moved on from Overdosing and being trampled to death to nearly being squished by LED walls.#movingonup. This news report though is very poor in that im pretty sure they only mentioned the wall accident for about 1/5th of the news report. This article i feel is relevent due to the new LED panels that we received! hopefully this doesnt happen to us. However i doubt this wouldve stopped anyone from continueing the festival everyone seemed pretty content on continueing the party.
Well: one that totally sucked they have some collapsed, two very glad to hear that no one was seriously injured, three glad to see the event was able to continue on with out any series delays. I understand that publishing exactly what happen is not the norm for the six o clock news but I do wonder what actually did happen. What caused the collapsed, will we ever now. As someone who will one day possibly be in charge of staging and other theatrical/event type sceneic elements just proper installation is the key. My first impression is that something just did not get connected correctly, over used rigging hardware, or a very long list of different possibiilties, but to me that is where it is our responsibility to cross the t's and dot the i's even though it can be very difficult and time consuming to do so. Do hope and pray no long term injury were caused during the show.
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