Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Booths spring up as Build Week begins
The Tartan Online: "The annual clearing of the Morewood parking lot is the easiest way for students at Carnegie Mellon to tell that spring has truly sprung. This was certainly the case when, last Friday, students began transporting their large unfinished wooden structures across Morewood and Forbes Avenue to the asphalt clearing. This was Move-On, the beginning of Build Week, and the beginning of a series of days dedicated to preparing booths for Spring Carnival."
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As for the article it has been awesome to watch as the booths are being constructed. Watching Move On day was especially hilarious as parades of students carrying stud walls marched down Forbes to the parking lot. Currently it is just crazy how much work goes into constructing and painting these booths before the weekend.
I am personally very excited for Carnival seeing as how I have never experienced it before. It is really fun to watch it all go up, and see all the hard work realized. However, it also scare me a great deal to watch some of these people work on their booths. From working with power tools in booty shorts, flip flops, and no eye protection, to standing on lauan on milk crates as someone else uses a circular saw around your ankles. That just baffles me that it seems like a good idea. Nevertheless it will be fun to see the final product and go to a carnival again
Being a part of a booth this year has made me incredibly and permanently thankful for our wonderful technical direction students! Their organization and leadership is what keeps the theater running, and not looking like the haphazard mess that move on is. They make sure that what we build all fits together, is structural, and is assembled in a safe manner. All things which move on lacked. Though many of the products, the booths, turned out spectacularly, the process for building them was quite frustrating.
Now that Carnival is over I can say that I would probably not want to be a part of booth. Some of the booths that I saw were great, and some where okay. I feel that some of the groups could have planned better and been better prepared. Also, some of the groups just needed to know how to properly build things. I feel if the CMU School of Drama would have built a booth it would be a short process of bringing pieces over and bolting them together -- and then touch up and it is done. Compared to some of the booths that looked so disorganized and had no plan but I am sure that they did have a plan. I am looking forward to what people come up with next year.
I really would have appreciated the knowledge that I have now to have been applicable to the booth that I contributed to last year. I feel like above all, the most essential part of booth is having good booth chairs who can manage properly and efficiently considering most organizations that make a booth at 60 - 80 people which have maybe less than 15 - 30 people in each organization that are artistically inclined and have building skills, less who have knowledge of computer science or anytime of game programming (which many booths involve for their game). But considering that these organizations besides their yearly booth build may not be used to building, painting, etc. I think its really impressive what they turn out with and furthermore amazing that they are doing this for the Pittsburgh community
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