Nine months on, it’s happened again: my iMac G5 has a serious problem. After a week or so of irregular problems with powering-up, she’s now in exactly the same state as before: black screen and overblowing fans. I’m betting my bottom dollar that I’ll be needing a third midplane board from Apple, as it looks like this is the same problem with the power management unit.
Annoyingly, even with the same quick turnaround as last time I won’t get this fixed until next weekend. But it’s been a while, so let’s recap what I’ve been up to since and during the Edinburgh Fringe:
- Assisted Simon Wilkinson with a searchlight installation for the opening of Perth’s new concert hall [Simon's photos / my photos]
- Lit Crestfall for Nutshell at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow [my photos / Scotsman review]
- Trained staff members at Fairbridge in using Macs for editing their own video projects
- A number of print design projects for CHA [research report (PDF)]
- Real-time reactive lighting and sound design for Sherlock Holmes & the Case of the Improvised Plot in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Half of the improvising technical team for The Stand Players’ Fringe show, Completely Made Up
In addition, last week I devised a Murder Mystery evening for the Drama Society, set at Bretton Hall: I’d written a couple of these for the EUTC at the Bedlam, but this was a bit different – great fun, though.
Crestfall also gets another run later this week, this time at the Traverse in Edinburgh. We were all really pleased with the reception it got at the Citz, and it’s going to be another little adventure staging it end-on. Please do come along if you’ve got an evening free for a slice of genuinely contemporary theatre. I’ll buy you a drink.
(When I get a spare moment, part of my work in this final year of degree is to work out what I’m going to do once I get that piece of paper and can’t laze around as a student any more: looking at the list above doesn’t really help to clarify that much…)
