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John's Birthday show 10-10-09

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:46:31 -0700

What happens with a former fireworks display company owner has a birthday? A huge show of course! I got a phone call a couple weeks ago from John asking if I'd help on a show for his birthday. I hadn't had any smoke in a while so I would have don...

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Fircrest Fun Days 8-8-09

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:42:26 -0700

If you look at the date on the last post, you can see I've been pretty lazy about blogging recently, even with a couple shows to post. I've had a lot of other stuff going on that hasn't left much room for pyro and now the season is pretty much ove...

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Woooo!

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:12:56 -0700

I was up at my cabin this weekend and wanted to play with a few fountains. It is very dry up there and "technically" (....) there is a burn ban, so I needed to be extra careful. I decided not to try out the larger BC fountains I purchased at Firec...

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Victory Muckleshoot Demo 6-13-09

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:45:41 -0700

Victory Fireworks is one of the wholesale vendors at Muckleshoot this year (same place the Northwest Pyro demo was at) and shot a small demo on Saturday that I was able to attend. The demo was fairly small (32 items on the shoot list) and there...

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Lazy and late write-up of the May 29-30 WA group shoot

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:19:31 -0700

Ok, I've been meaning to post about the WA spring group shoot for a while and haven't done it. At this point it is pretty late and I'm feeling lazy, so this will be a short one. I have a Dixie Cup for your tears... This year was different from ...

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Renn Fayre 2009 Fireworks High Quality Video

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:31:26 -0700

I got my own video of the 2009 Renn Fayre fireworks show, but also had somebody with much fancier gear like (multiple) real video cameras and tripods help me out by getting another video. He has a lot of experience videoing fireworks shows and the...

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Renn Fayre 2009 Fireworks [Updated with high quality video at bottom]

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:25:37 -0700

I've been posting about it pretty much since the smoke cleared from the Renn Fayre 2008 fireworks, and on Saturday May 2nd, I finally shot the 2009 show. It didn't quite live up to my high hopes because of weather-related problems, a couple script...

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Clip of the moment - Victory demo finale

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:23:41 -0700

The finale at the NW Pyro demo was very cool and a more traditional sky-puke style finale, the other main option is larger numbers of a single item or series of items, as in the Victory Fireworks demo. This one is a huge number of 200g Red and Sil...

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Northwest Pyro demo - April 18

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:45:20 -0700

I was going to do a longer post, but it has already been a couple days and time is short! So the short version is Steve and associates are wholesaling for Hales this year, and shot a demo at the Muckleshoot Casino. PyroU folks were invited to help...

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Fireworks safety fence testing

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:26:38 -0800

While working at the magazines, Rod and I also did a couple tests on fences as safety barriers. We've had a couple of cakes that tipped (even when glued to a board) or blew out, so in the interest of safety we wanted to look at ways to reduce this...

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