It's summer time, here at UCI. Now that the
New Swan Theater is up and running, and our various summer rental groups are mostly done, we have a chance to make a couple improvements. We are still waiting on the Robert Cohen Theater, to get it's finishing touches, before moving the equipment back in. In the mean time, I've made a slight improvement to the sound shop.
In the S.W.I.F.T. (Sound Workshop for Integrated Fine-arts Technology), we had a corner of the room with little drawers.
They looked like dorm room rejects. Handy, sure. But, ugly, not safe (one is leaning, others were stacked on top of each other, and would almost fall on you when opening the drawer), and not an efficient use of the space. Using some leftover funds, and a great sale price, we have upgrade to this:
Thirty six bins, of different sizes. Far more efficient use of the space. Bins are more specific. Instead of "Firewire", we now have one bin for "Firewire 400-400", another for "Firewire 400-800", and another for "Firewire 800-800". Makes it much easier to find what you need. And, with the expansion, we also have some EMPTY bins!! Room for growth, as Apple comes up with some new connector to get into their computers, or Meyer has a widget for their speakers, or..or.. Who knows!!??!! Always nice to have room to grow.
While the shop is never perfect, we are always making improvements, in hopes of getting there. When time and budget allows, we make things better.
OK, time for me to get back to work. Need to make proper labels for all those bins.
