25 points
Pirates Vs. Ninjas by ananas
August 2nd, 2006 10:11 PM
I was a tech ninja! Yeah Theater Tech!
On March 31 and April 1, 2006, I attended the Ohlone Theatre Festival at Ohlone College in Fremont, California. I was representing Lowell High School in the theater tech games. My team was named the "Tech Ninjas". We compete against other Bay Area High Schools in theater tech-related feats of strength, such as "build a flat as fast as you can but still make it accurate", "Propapalooza", where you build a prop using only the materials provided in 30 minutes, "Light Plot of Doom" where you hang heavy theater lights on bars two stories up in the air, "The Great Paint Splatter" which involves the vicious splattering of paint all over wooden boards.
There was metaphorical killing of other players, and those players were us. We sucked. All the other teams were quite deft. I felt we made a killing in building our prop, a science fiction dashboard.
How I was ninja like....
-- Battle scars! (burns) from fighting with a hot glue gun!
-- Braving heights by carrying heavy lights on a catwalk two stories in the open air
-- Holding heavy lights over the ground while tightening C-clamps with a wrench
-- Accepting defeat quite continuously
-- Challenging freezing temperatures in the school bus all the way there and back
-- Taking on the light plotting program that was so high tech we didn't know how to use it
-- Wielding my wrench weapon at all times
On March 31 and April 1, 2006, I attended the Ohlone Theatre Festival at Ohlone College in Fremont, California. I was representing Lowell High School in the theater tech games. My team was named the "Tech Ninjas". We compete against other Bay Area High Schools in theater tech-related feats of strength, such as "build a flat as fast as you can but still make it accurate", "Propapalooza", where you build a prop using only the materials provided in 30 minutes, "Light Plot of Doom" where you hang heavy theater lights on bars two stories up in the air, "The Great Paint Splatter" which involves the vicious splattering of paint all over wooden boards.
There was metaphorical killing of other players, and those players were us. We sucked. All the other teams were quite deft. I felt we made a killing in building our prop, a science fiction dashboard.
How I was ninja like....
-- Battle scars! (burns) from fighting with a hot glue gun!
-- Braving heights by carrying heavy lights on a catwalk two stories in the open air
-- Holding heavy lights over the ground while tightening C-clamps with a wrench
-- Accepting defeat quite continuously
-- Challenging freezing temperatures in the school bus all the way there and back
-- Taking on the light plotting program that was so high tech we didn't know how to use it
-- Wielding my wrench weapon at all times