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Saturday evening, I found myself back at the Russian embassy trying out the three new gobos I had ordered for Himar, my gobo projector. The evening didn’t go quite as planned. It was raining when we got there, which caused a bit of a delay. My YouTube livestream failed completely—more on that below—and we ended up having to abandon it in favor of live-s…
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