OF A GOLDEN AGE

At work, my bread and butter is projectors, and I’ve been asking people about ambient light for over three years now. Can you dim the lights? Will there be a tent to block the sun? Sorry, no, there’s no projector that can compete with direct sunlight, because, you know, the sun is like infinity lightbulbs multiplied by infinity again.

Even the professionals sometimes have this problem: DJ Shadow’s set at Pitchfork Music Festival yesterday was disrupted by a failed visual aid (via Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot — visit Kot’s post for the full details of DJ Shadow’s setup).

“You can’t see anything, can you?” [DJ Shadow] quizzes the enormous audience, already knowing the answer. “Trust me, it would’ve been really, really fresh.” The frustrated San Francisco electronics wizard is referring to what should’ve been a blow-out visual array. [...] Alas, due to a huge miscalculation on the part of organizers, it’s still too bright outside to see the light show at work. [...] Shadow even brought this potential problem up with organizers when he learned of his time slot and was reassured everything would be fine.

“Well, Mr., uh, Shadow, will you have a tent to block the sun?”

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