The journal for design, production, and technology professionals in the performing arts and entertainment industry     2010s '10 '11 '12    2000s '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09    1990s '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99   Winter 2012 (Vol. 48 no. 1) TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of contents, cover image and miscellaneous front and back pages. • View / Download PDF (4.8 MB) FEATURED ARTICLES Affordable 3D Printing by Owen Collins • Creating a three-dimensional object is nearly as easy as printing a picture of it on your desktop printer. • View / Download PDF (1.6 MB) No Place Like Home by Dan Gray • A replica of the Royal Shakespeare Company's home theatre in England is recreated inside the Park Avenue Armory in New York City out of parts shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. • View / Download PDF (2.2 MB) Hair Preparation & Wig Application: A Lesson for Makeup Teachers, Wardrobe Supervisors, and Theatre Students by Karen Brewster, with Ryan Fischer • There are right ways and wrong ways to apply wigs. • View / Download PDF (1 MB) Historic San Fernando Valley Orange Grove Blossoms into the Valley Performing Arts Center by M. Barrett Cleveland • The gleaming performing arts center in Northridge, CA, enhances the cultural life of the San Fernando Valley while connecting the community with the university campus. • View / Download PDF (3 MB) Rockin'-and-a-Rollin' by Raymond Kent • Careful selection of sound, audio-visual, and lighting equipment serves the stories told about iconic music industry legends at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. • View / Download PDF (1.3 MB) Rigging Math: Three-point Bridles by Delbert Hall • Calculating the lengths of three-point bridles and the tensions on them involves lengthy formulas. • View / Download PDF (619 KB) COLUMNS The Subtext: In Praise of Techies by Beeb Salzer • The complexity of what can now be done with computers, lights, and new materials makes designers more and more dependent on technical experts. • View / Download PDF (768 KB) Inside USITT: Treasurer's Report, December 2011 by Travis DeCastro • While there is some weakness in membership growth, many expense line items in the FY 2010/2011 budget were below budget resulting in a positive income over expenses, and investment income showed a nice bounce back from the previous year. • View / Download PDF (534 KB) BOOK REVIEWS Pick Your Poison: How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia Is Making Lab Rats of Us All by Monona Rossol by Ellen E. Jones • View / Download PDF (1.2 MB) Show Case: Developing, Maintaining, and Presenting a Design-tech Portfolio for Theatre and Allied Fields, Second Edition by Rafael Jaen by R. Eric Stone • View / Download PDF (1.2 MB) Fundamentals of Theatrical Design: A Guide to the Basics of Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Design by Karen Brewster and Melissa Shafer by Donnell Walsh • View / Download PDF (1.2 MB) The Complete Costume Dictionary by Elizabeth J. Lewandowski by Howard Vincent Kurtz • View / Download PDF (1.2 MB)