September 2019 Patreon Update - Folder access & More (Patreon)

Wow! What a busy month it has been. Tons of gigs, tons of travel, and a whole lot more on the horizon. Currently I am enjoying a few days off with my girlfriend in Europe to celebrate her birthday hence the delay in the monthly post.

I have a few things to talk about in detail.

Dropbox Folder: first of all, I’m very sorry we’ve had repeated troubles with Dropbox. Dropbox flagged my account for abuse due to the amount of downloads and effectively killed all outside access to my files. As it stands, I can’t even share active production folders with the teams I work with for upcoming shows. Even worse, this all happened right as I left on vacation for two weeks. HOWEVER, I did bring my laptop which has a copy of my files on it and I have been using every opportunity to connect to WiFi on my vacation and transfer the Patreon folder to Google Drive, which apparently does not have the limits that Dropbox has. So going forward, I will Be posting a monthly link to a public google drive folder where you can access the perks (for LD tier patrons). I’m very sorry about this and trust me I am just as frustrated. This should be a good fix until I can build my own server. The link to access this folder will be in a separate post for LD tier patrons (so that everyone else can also read these updates).

New vlogs! Part of the reason I was blocked on Dropbox was because I have been uploading all of the raw footage from my recent gigs to my Dropbox in order to transfer them to editors. Google drive doesn’t have the bandwidth limits that Dropbox has, and if you would like to try your hand at editing a video, I am looking to hire 1-2 editors to make regular videos. Please message me if you would like to apply/make a demo edit with unreleased vlog footage. If you are good and I like it, I’ll gladly hire you to continue (as well as pay for that demo)

Clay Paky factory tour: Very excited to be spending an afternoon traveling to the Clay Paky factory in Italy this week! I will be doing a fun little YouTube video/ vlog to take you along with and Patreon supporters WILL be getting early access to that and extra content.

Bumbershoot: the last time I did a bumbershoot video it did so well that I decided to shoot three of them this year. Nearly finished editing episode 1, and will be uploading it this week for you to review before I send it off to YouTube. Also, there is a folder with all of the details on the ground package I designed for LTC since they also played the same stage I was the house LD for. 26 universes of fun on that ground package 😛

MA file: as always, there is a new MA file in the google drive folder. I have made a few new additions including moving some pages around for efficiency, a new Resolume fixture type file (and Resolume composition with DMX mappings). Also new: rig busking pages for easier timecode creation. Demo timecode show also included this time. Usually I delete those before uploading but I wanted to show a demo. Working on a few new features of the file including some more ways to control sections of the rig vs just fixture types using worlds and macros to edit effects.

Louis The Child fall tour 2019: my design for the new tour has been approved and we are moving forward with sourcing equipment. It’s a very exciting but stressful time to make sure that the tour is able to be built in as many venues as possible. I will not be able to share anything until our first show where the rig is debuted, but there are many firsts for me on this rig and I’m excited to show you this very curvy and dynamic rig :)

Merch: currently all orders are on hold until I am back in the US in two weeks. New designs and types will be available next month as well.

Thanks for supporting! I may be on vacation but remember you can always message me if you have questions concerns etc and I’ll reply as soon as I can.

- Christian (from France!)