TotalRunTime.TV
Resource for visual technologists, VJs, and media artists navigating technical-to-creative career transitions. Maps pathways from entry-level production to advanced creative roles across lighting, video, and projection systems.
TotalRunTime.TV is an in-development resource that maps career pathways for visual technologists — the VJs, playback operators, LED techs, and projectionists whose routes from entry-level production work into senior creative-technology roles are largely undocumented. The industry teaches these transitions by word of mouth; this project turns that folklore into a navigable structure.
The content model is the core engineering problem. Roles, skills, tools, and career transitions form a graph, not a list: a playback operator's path toward media-server programming crosses lighting, video, and projection disciplines, each with its own gear lineage and hiring conventions. The data structures are being designed so a single role or tool (Millumin, Disguise, Resolume) can appear across multiple pathways without duplicating editorial copy — the same single-source discipline this portfolio site uses for its own structured data.
The build is Vite and TypeScript with a design-systems-first approach: typography, spacing, and component tokens are being locked down before page templates, because an encyclopedia-style site lives or dies on reading rhythm and visual consistency across hundreds of entries.
The research grounding comes from direct experience: years of IATSE production work across trade shows, breakouts, and general sessions is the primary source for how these roles actually connect. The project is honestly in development — the pathway model and design system exist; public content is still being written.