<div><div dir="auto">Nice story, but blowers don’t suck they blow. Had a similar thing happen to me we had designed a set that was a 20 somethings apartment and spent weeks getting just the right trash and takeout containers to have scattered about we get in 3 hours before the show to find maintance had trashed it. Let’s just say pizza was ordered.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 16:37 Paul Guncheon via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Don't use blowers, they suck... ummm wait. There is a story coming. I'll make it short though.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I designed and built a show in a smallish theater that was set in a 3/4 view or thrust position, i.e. seating on three sides of the stage. The set consisted of about fifty to seventy-five tree trunks, a bunch of bushes, and assorted foliage, grass, and stones. We had sculpted a forest floor with a lot of flat-ish rocks sculpted out of Homesote and Canec (like Homesote but softer and made with sugar cane stalks) by the use of grinders, sanders, and what all. This, as one might imagine, made a LOT of dust. Quite a bit of debris went into the seating.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">The night before the first preview the cleaning crew came in and for some reason, decided to use leaf blowers as part of their procedure to clean the seating. They had never done this before. When we came in the next morning to put stuff away as the set was finished, we discovered that the entire set was covered in dust and dirt. Everything was brownish grey.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">But the seating was clean.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Grrr.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">We spent the next many hours patiently vacuuming up the dust (Do you have any idea how long it takes to vacuum a bush?) and replacing the dirt where needed. The cleaning crew was "cautioned" by management (at the kind and gentle urging of the TD, my partner in building the set) to never use blowers again.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Of course, this didn't prevent them from, <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">many months later,</span> cleaning up the artfully placed "litter" from a punk nightclub set. We proceeded to replace and hot glue every piece of trash back onto the set.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">We live, we learn.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Laters,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Paul 1</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div>
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