Sun Valley Part Dos

Okay, I finally mustered the energy and desire to write about the rest of our Sun Valley adventure. The biggest problem with this job was the fact that we had too many spoons in the pot so to speak. We were there to install and focus a lighting package. The package consists of the lights, their various pieces and parts, the power sources, the socapex connections that plug into the power source so we can access the power, the cables that go from the socapex to the lights ( kind of like extension cables) and the light board that programs and runs everything. The problem lies with the fact that they didn't sole source everything, meaning they didn't get everything from ONE company. Instead, they received things from 4 different places. The lights and their parts as well as the labor to install came from one, the light board and part of the cable came from another, all of the socopex came from a third and the power source boxes came from the fourth. We physically delivered the lights and such, we found part of the cable in the basement in a random room.... and we never did find the socapex cables and crap from the third company,we had at least 20 people looking all over the place for the stuff, we left no stone unturned. Matt had replacement parts shipped to us then they miraculously turn up the day that companies rep shows up... hmmmm...... and then wants us to change out everything we put up that was originally supposed to be his and wasn't. Um... how do I say this politely... BITE ME. The fourth company never inventoried all their stuff so we had no idea if we had everything or not. The lighting designer finally shows up on Monday and it turns out he isn't really a lighting designer but an architect and doesn't like the placement of anything...... and doesn't know stage directions or how to focus lights.... Lovely!!! Like I said earlier, it was really a job we could have had completley finished in 2 days, but took 6.
Honestly, aside from the problems we had with the companies involved with the lighting install, everyone else was awesome. I did find one other girl on the job site. She was a fork lift driver. The production manager, the general contractors and sub contractors were awesome and made it a very pleasant experience. And hey, we walked away with way more money than we were supposed to because of all the delays... I can't really complain.

Okay, i do have one more beef.... The site was still a hard hat and long jeans required area. We had a donor family show up and just hang out onstage underneath the panels onstage that we were working on.... and they were there ALL DAY!!!! Little kids running around unsupervised and jumping on the equipment. Why did they think they had the right to be there, in our way, with no hard hats or proper attire, having a leisurely lunch onstage... Are they really above the law just because they donated to this project? I realize that they in some way shape or form were paying me but it is dangerous, especially for those kids who were playing on very heavy expensive and did I mention dangerous equipment? We even went so far as to ask the general contractor if we could ask them to leave because they we right where we needed to be.... but there was NOTHING to be done because they were donors..... so instead, we just moved them all over the stage at various times. I know we annoyed them but I was just returning the favor... :)


Here are some pictures of us on our last day before we drove home.






From the back.



From the front entrance.



Hanging 25 feet above the ground on top of one of the ceiling panels.



Putting the canopy on.... it took them 3 days... :)



View into the house from the stage.





The front truss with the cheapest moving lights ever made.







The condo we had for the first 4 days before we got shipped to the cockroach hotel in Haliey. We had 2 bedrooms...3 beds... two full baths.... fully furnished, flat screens, movies, a hot tub that we fully took advantage of. Awesome!!!