Remember Kids: Scaffolding is Dangerous!

One of my earliest forays into screen printing. Sophomore year in high school I took a printmaking class. We had an exposure unit and everything. Once we got into silkscreens, me and a few other guys really just wanted to make a bunch of shirts. The teacher, Mr. Tupa, saw that we were proficient and kept up on our other assignments, so he didn't mind. He was retiring soon anyways. That spring I was in our school's production of Pan, (Peter Pan) which was our entry into the Massachusetts High School Guild state competition. Our set consisted mostly of scaffolding, and being that it was Never-Never Land, we ran, swung, climbed and jumped all over it. The show was good and we got picked to move on to the second round, which was hosted at another school. At our tech rehearsal, 2 days before the show, the director of that school's play/coordinator of that round contacted the Mass HS Drama Guild, with the concern that our set was unsafe. They contacted us and told us that we could not have any students "more than 16 feet off the ground." We saw it as a huge sabotage move, and were forced to change our choreography the day before. We ended up winning that round anyways, and went on to finals. I peeled off one of the warning stickers from a piece of scaffolding to get the image, and added the text myself. I printed one for myself, and then printed them for anyone else who would give me a shirt. It became the sort of un-official play shirt. And people still like it to this day, I think the info graphic is priceless.

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