Rope Work – Just-N illusion Studios

Among the collection of wild skill sets I have acquired over the years,
the crazy world of entertainment rigging and rope access work
has put me in some pretty unique spots.

Here’s a few of them.

Just finished a focus run for “Ladies Night Out”. – Lighting Tech, rigger

Just-N illusion — Hanging out in the grid…about 100 ft up.

Girls Night Out - Everett Event Center — Girls Night Out – Just coming down from a light focus session.

Kenneth Cole — Getting my ropes together for the 437 foot drop.

Prepping to reppel off this 437' drop — Prepping to reppel off this 437′ drop

Rigging a show with my brother Hans at The Gorge Amphitheater.

Tower 801 Seattle — A view down a spine of Tower 801.

Kenneth Cole 2006 — Looking straight down the 437 foot drop.

Aerosmith from the T-dome Grid. — Aerosmith at the Tacoma Dome

BritneySpears — Britney Spears from the Tacoma Dome Grid

Cher - Final Farewell Tour — Cher at White River Amphitheater

In Living Color — The aftermath of the show.

Furthur 2015 — A view from the grid at Marymoore Park for Further.

Miley Cyrus 2015 — A view on the Tacoma Grid at 95 feet up.

Prince 2011 — A view from the Toma Dome Grid at 95 feet up.

Before any lights or sound gets hung, we need to hang the points.

Rammstein 2012 — Fully loaded grid of the show.

Royksopp 2014 — Finishing up a focus while Royksopp has a soundcheck.

Brittney Spears at the Tacoma Dome – Rigger

Flyman and Rigger for the historic Moore Theater

metallica — Metallica – Summer Sanitarium 2003 – My first gig as an Entertainment Rigger

Just finished the yearly set-up of the wind walls at The Gorge – Main stage…and my is300..haha.. because I can.

cavalia — Cavalia west coast tour 2004 -Lighting Crew Director

boom boom huck jam — Tony Hawk’s Boom Boom Huckjam – featuring the band Offspring 2001 – My first Stagehand gig at the Tacoma Dome.

If you look outside into the alley from the fly-rail. Here is what you see behind the Moore Theater.

The fly rail at the historic Moore Theater in Seattle, WA

from the ground to the grid. The pathway to the rail at the Moore Theater

In entertainment rigging we are responsible,
for everything that hangs from the sky.

We hang everything from small simple inflatables,
to complex sub-grids full of video, sound, lighting
and set-pieces. So learning weight distribution
was a pretty intense learning curve.

Shows these days can weigh 100’s of thousands
pounds and most people don’t even think about
what’s over their heads.

Aside from rigging shows and installing safety systems
for grids in various venues, I would also repel off of
various buildings in Seattle, such as the Space Needle
and Tower 801 in order to hang over-sized banners off of them.

As I go through my archives I realize,
I haven’t ever shared many of these unique views.

Hope you enjoyed another little walk through my crazy life.