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paired FF is Electic Electric.| Summer Solstice 2003 I ask that I may see and I saw that I would. |
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 May 19, 2002 under a retrograde mercury. The ancient TMLS is getting ready to leave the building. In closeing OMTV, newer lighting fixtures compete for such limited space. Thank God for the F series. Dimensional reduction to the rescue.
The original in house folow spot was an x-mas gift from my father. Actually is was tricked out ellipsoidal spot light with barn doors, Iris, yoke and handle pretending to be a follow spot. Did a good job in the little clubs and cafeterias. Not so good in the auditoriums. We had matched 1000 watt Buhl overhead projectors, and a third slightly different model with 800 watts. At one time the TMLS had 16 Slide projectors. The Overheads used masks and were used primarily for liquid projections, useing different sized clock crystals with colored water and oil to create the 30 foot bubbles crawing across the sixties scapes. The mirror wheels and mirror boards provided a broad variety of effects. The mirror boards were composed of rubber with mirrors. The skill of the operator brought the instrument to life. There were strobe lights and flood lights. effects wheels and color wheels. Today the projector count is 6- 2 working carosels, the 550 and the 850. 2 non working Argus'es, the Buhl 80 Overhead and the original Vokar. The Time Square Lighting Ellipsoidal Follow spot, the Kodak motionadaptor which is a polarized wheel. 2 mirror boards. These objects have survived on superstion alone. None of these things have worked much since 1972. What survivies billy's 2002 birthday? In the early seventies I sold off most of the equipment to buy gas to run around america in Sweet Suzy. I traded my control box for a 1938 Underwood Typeswriter. What was giant projection images became novels essays and poetry. Same story by the way. What it was, was analog. What it is, is Digital I have dissembled the spotlight and to free the Lens for studio duty. I have dissembled the Kodak motion adaptor to discover it was manufactured in Port Washington NY where it was housed. 5-20-2002 - As I continue the dissembly of the remaining original TMLS I find that this stuff all still works. The 1000Wwatt overhead still fires, it's last function was the Jenny Softcore shoot at pete's lake mist set.musta been 7 years ago. Both Argus projectors fired right up, even the fan on the good one. I had one good argus and one bad argus. The good argus was $15 from a Buy Lines newspaper add same day as I got my Drum set. It was always magical. The lens was bright and wonderful. These judgements are about the effect at showtime. How the light hit the head of the audience on real shows. The good one made a feel good thing, the bad one was limp and didn't snap crackle pop like it should. Both carousel projectors work. You can smell the dust burn when the lamps go on. August 7th, 2005 - Nikola Tesla enters the electrical door to the F series as the godfather of modern light show. December 6th, 2005 - The brand new HP Scanjet 4370is digesting what remains of the Tim Martin Light Show slides. The scanner has a built in slide scanner which is doing justice to the first round of slides. I had always planned to do this, from the earliest days of the light show I knew the slides would take one final trip into the eternal worlds of information heaven, which is now here and now in Holly Drive. The slides returned to realtime in an envelope box, completely full. The first theme to make it to the archive are the square art slides from Joe Zahn at Willoughby Peerless near Penn Station. We got these in sets of 4 and 8 so they would sit 2 across on the screen, usually about 20 by 40 foot.
June 13th, 2007 ~ Hillside Drive ~ Updated Top Page Fpic Student Work - Associated F's: 305 | Friendly Fire | Ballad Of Jim Mason | Trees | Shoot. | Funnelheads | HurtlingCube | Sue Eyes | First Paintings | Hyacinthe | Strike | XmasCards | Signature | Dawn Of Mercury | |
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