Set design (gone bad)

If you poke around through some of the books in my office bookcase, you'll see more than a few on theater set design.

I've always had an interest in building sets - I love the way they compress life into a flat canvas, and everything is fake, yet seems real. In fact, I was just reading another woodworking blog and the blogger mentioned that when she watches TV, she finds herself paying more attention to the furniture and the set, than the actors and the plot.

I get it. I do that too.

Which leads me to this video...