[SML] RIP Helen Pond

[Herrick Goldman]

Thanks Mike and Richard for the memories and education.  I'm currently working on the bleeding edge of projection and mapping on a floating theater in the Mediterranean and it's just as challenging. ;) 

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Herrick Goldman
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www.HGlightingdesign.com

> On Apr 18, 2017, at 18:07, Richard John Archer <rja10 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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>> http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170413/renowned-set-designer-helen-pond-dies-at-age-92
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>> Herrick Goldman
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> Thanks Herrick,
> Quite a life……...
> I first met Helen (and Herbert, of course) back when I was working on the Opera Company of Boston’s production of Good Soldier Schweik in the spring of 1970.  I think I’ve mentioned here before that this was performed in the old hockey rink at Boston College (McHugh Forum)  and the old drill hall/arena at MIT (Rockwell Cage).   Just a little set  in the round with projection TV ( this in 1970 remember--- Eidophor B&W projectors from the for runner of MIT’s Media Lab) for a screen mid stage with live TV and pre recorded tape;   a train ,  armored cars, and tanks, built over golf carts….trenches  dug into the arena’s dirt floor……. read about it here…. 
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> https://books.google.com/books?id=M8AQKA7nyzsC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=mit+arena+good+soldier+schweik+performance&source=bl&ots=tIbr4d8LuI&sig=jtWfVeVTL8N29vMKQy68rfhYGDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1nayyrK7TAhVlzFQKHYQBArQQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=mit%20arena%20good%20soldier%20schweik%20performance&f=false
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> Just a little magic from Helen and Herbert.  The next season in Boston’s of Cyclorama building (also known as the Flower Market) saw  no less inspiring design solutions to an impossible space. 
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> In the small world, 6 degrees,  department….Helen and Herbert did the Brdwy set and lighting design for What Makes Sammy Run,   starring Steve Lawrence.  Lawrence's grand daughter is a student here working in my shop. 
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> DickA
> TD, Cornell U
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