I wanted to start with a good record of what the Lyric looks like now in its glorious"esthetic decrepitude", so we went down with my friend Randy Crow the other day. I took my cheap Home Depot work lights, he brought some of his professional lights, and we spent the afternoon shooting wide views and panoramas.
Shooting HDR is a rather contemplative undertaking with up to 10 exposures ranging from 16 seconds to 1/30 s depending on the contrast, and while waiting for the long exposures, I started brainstorming about making a short film of a very surrealistic vaudeville show, with a very sparse "fellini-esque" audience of weird characters in the remaining dusty seats of the third balcony, on the wooden seatless "bleachers" of the second balcony, on the bare floor of the orchestra, and sitting in grand gilded baroque armchairs in the six ruined boxes on each side of the stage. Thee would be fire breathers, jugglers, magicians pulling huge ugly rabbits out of oversize top hats, bad singers, Roy Rogers on a live Trigger, contortionists, tango dancers, what else?
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