Uplighting WELL with Chauvet
Hot Wheels Plays for Real
Doug Fleenor Design
“I’ve always been interested in live entertainment,” Doug Fleenor confesses. “I put together my first sound system at seven, which involved a Lafayette PA horn, an Allied crystal microphone and a B-Stock tube amp from a local stereo store.” And no one would doubt when he says in high school he was that AV geek.
Read More »Companies Band Together to Form Rental & Staging Network
Unique Association Marks Impressive Growth during Challenging Times
All the members of the Rental & Staging Network would agree that, as a whole, their organization is greater than the sum of its parts. As it barrels toward its fourth year propelled by a serious growth spurt, the organization continues to strive to be a network of top rental and staging companies joined by a common set of principles, high ethical standards and superior performance. Read More »DMX Control for Trade Show Visuals
A.C.T Lighting Gets Its New Act Together
Learning to Park
Communicating Globally
¿Habla usted español? If not, you may want to try. At least for a few key phrases.
The Spanish-speaking population in the U.S. has topped 50 million — 16.3 percent of the total, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics. Projections by researchers such as Cuban linguist Humberto Lopez Morales also indicate that, by 2050, 10 percent of the world will speak Spanish, double the English-speaking population, while percentages for French and German decline to 1.4 and 1.2 percent. Read More »John Rossi, Monkees’ Head LD
Reflections on Reunion Tour after Rendezvous with Brain Surgery
Hooked up to an IV flowing with pain medication, LD John Rossi is recovering from back surgery. He has just designed The Monkees’ 45th anniversary tour and still manages to email back and forth with me to do an interview about this design. It is his first show design since his other big surgery — for a brain tumor — in November 2007. One wonders, can’t the guy get a break? For Rossi, this IS his break: back in to the world of concert design.
Read More »Tech Support
I’ve worked shows in clubs all around the world. Most of them have an in-house lighting system. With that comes at least one tech who knows how his system operates. Or we would like to think he does. Clubs usually do not possess a lot of state-of-the-art fixtures, nor fixtures with all of their parameters functioning correctly. Half of the time I will have a console I know little about. So I am dependent on my local lighting guy. And it’s uncanny how little some of these professionals know about their own gear.
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