CV of Justin Lang

I just completed a tutorial on how to create my own dock icons for stack folders.  I have a folder with alias’s to my Adobe CS4 programs for quick launch off to the right.  While the “stack” looked alright on the dock, I wanted to have a custom icon showing what is in that stack.

Creating the image was the easy part, getting it to show with a transparent background is what rattled my brain for over half and hour. Here is a what the new icon, Adobe Bin, looks like in my dock.

If you would like to use that icon, please feel free to download it here. Changing the icon is as simple as command + I to get more info on the folder that you want to change the icon of.  And then dragging the Adobe Bin icon on the folder icon on the top left.

My next step is to create icons for the other stacks that I have there on my dock.  Very simliar fashion to the Adobe Bin.

UPDATE: Noticed that you could not download the icon file, so I have put it into a zip file for download here.

I don’t know exactly how I came up with this or thought of it.  But I knew my nephews Christening was coming up next weekend and that we needed to get a card.  Some how this just popped into my head while driving all around this week.  The inside is blank at the moment, but I was thinking about putting some helpful rules on how to pass the time in church.  ie: “praying” is a perfect time to take a quick cat nap.

Just completed this little guy.  He may seem happy, but really he wants your feet.  I don’t know if it is human flesh he is after or if it is the toe cheese.  Just be careful, you just might enjoy it!

I found this while trolling around the internet last night.  A great lay out of a hoe entertainment center.  I prefer to have everything hidden in a back room with minimal controls out front, but to each their own.  The touch screen controls is pretty impressive!

Last night I was going through my apple sites and one of the images on a certain post about tethering your iPhone had this background. Well I could not fins that exacte wall paper any where, but I did find the monitor back ground that used the image.

So a little snip snip and a crop crop there, and presto, the iPhone wall Paper.  If you like it and wish to use it, the image is not mine and I could not find any copyright info on it.

But, you can donwload it by clicking the image so enjoy!

My only question is this…

Are each of those on their own 20amp breaker?

I have some pretty exciting news to announce soon.  While I would love to announce what the count down is, I want to wait till there is a good round number.  Just know that something exciting is coming… I can bearly contain myself!

How to Tell if You Have a Good Stage Manager

Again while at the tech table tonight, I have been thinking over the design process of the show and the surprising things that happen.

I have been design a show or two each season at LTA for a couple of years now and it seems like I am always “stuck” with the same stage manager running the show.

Around my first or second show at LTA, I was asked in the first production meeting by the producer, do I need anything for the show and I jokinly said a Hot Toddy each night during tech week.

Since then it has been a running joke with everyone involved with the show that I am designing that I require a Hot Toddy and that each night someone is designated as my “Bartender”.  In the three or four years now that I have been working with LTA, no one has given gotten me a Hot Toddy.

Well last night was a bad bad run through for me.  I just could not get my levels right and I found a gapping black spot right down stage.  I was cursing to myself and just frustrated.  Little did I know that my headset was still hot.  Everyone on headset heard me basically chewing myself out under my breath. QUITE embarrising!

I arrived early today in order to start the system up and get the ladders out and fix my dark spot down stage.  Once I had finish fixing the problem on the house electric and putting everything away, I headed back to the tech table in a dark house.

When I got back to row K where the tech table lives for one more night, I noticed a travel mug on my desk that was not there when I came in.  Being the nut job that I am I tasted it to see what it might be and low and behold, A HOT TODDY!

Our stage manager comes out on stage to start wet mopping the stage for the run thought to night and notices me out in the house messing around.  She ask me if I got my present, the Hot Toddy.  MEJ, our stage manager heard me on the headset last night being hard on myself and wanted to know that she and the rest of the cast and crew “love” me and are here for me to help out, even if that means getting a buzz for the last night of tech.

Ladies and gentlemen, you know you have a great manager on your hands that she remembers your standing request/joke and see’s that you have been having a hard day and brings you a special present.

While the drink was delicious, it was more of the toughfulness and caring that RAERLY counted with me.  If you get the privilage of having a great stage manager like this, HOLD ON TO THEM AND NEVER LET THEM GO!