Despite their name and long association with lighting primarily meant for clubs and smaller venues, ADJ Lighting has released a number of professional touring fixtures recently. Their Vizi line includes lights with feature sets normally seen on larger-format lights, but with attractive price points set to be within reach of houses of worship and other facilities or productions that need to be conscientious with their budget.
Whether “Tis Nobler” Is Not the Question. Here’s a Roundtable Discussion of When It’s the Answer.
For some, timecode is the auto tune of lighting designers — a lazy choice. Others insist that timecode is doing the job of the operator, freeing him or her up from being chained to just punching the “go” button for each and every cue. But the truth is that when properly implemented, it can be used for a show’s greater good.
Most automated lighting programmers work as freelancers meaning that they have to not only program shows, but also are responsible for negotiating the terms of their payment and services. Usually this negotiation is done with the production manager, producer, or lighting company. It is very important for lighting programmers to understand basic negotiation skills and to know when to make changes to their standard agreements.
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LD Philip Ealy has designed the much anticipated reunion tour for Guns N’ Roses. Aptly titled “Not In This Lifetime” — referring to the fact that nobody believed it would actually happen — Ealy is working with lighting programmer Rob Koenig and content programmer Chris Lose on the stadium tour.
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For a creative and expressive field like live music production, it’s amazing how jaded some people can be at times. But I’m not going to talk about that; I am going to talk about the exact opposite of that. I want to talk about the energy that pushes you to keep moving to create something almost beyond this world. If there is a single word for it in English, I don’t know what it is. It’s beyond enthusiasm. It comes over you like a spell until you see the project through, then it goes somewhere else for a while. It comes back again later. This energy, as I know, it can manifest in at least three different ways.
Read More »TROY, NY — Richard Cadena, an ETCP-Certified Entertainment Electrician and Trainer, will lead the first professional-development seminar to be held at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. The workshop will be conducted in EMPAC’s Studio Beta from June 27-29, 2016.
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ADJ’s new Asteroid 1200 is designed to send super-tight beams and distinct pixel-mapped patterns hurtling through the air and down onto the dance-floor. Packing limitless dual-directional continuous rotation and quad-color LEDs into one portable source, the Asteroid 1200 promises a full array of pixel-mappable visual effects.
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John McKernon and City Theatrical have announced that Lightwright 6, the newest version of the industry leading, multi award winning software for managing entertainment lighting paperwork, is now shipping and is available through City Theatrical dealers worldwide. Lightwright is an iconic industry standard on Broadway and in other areas of live entertainment, and was created to help designers and electricians record and keep track of the vast amount of data needed to install and maintain a lighting installation. As the lighting world has increased in complexity due to the proliferation of moving lights and LEDs, the organizational demands on lighting designers, design assistants, and electricians has continued to grow. Lightwright 6, for the first time, fulfills a longtime industry dream of controlling the flow of lighting data from design to console without needing to enter data multiple times by hand, while documenting up to 45,000 universes of data.
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Blizzard Lighting’s ThunderStik linear wash light has five 15W RGBW Quad-Color OSRAM LEDs with pixel control and a narrow 5-degree beam angle. The fixture also features a quiet-moving 250-degree motorized tiltable head (with three-phase motors) and Y-axis rotation as well. ThunderStik also comes with a set of lens filters to diffuse the fixture’s sharp output to a soft color blend, increasing the beam angle up to 30 or 60 degrees. Users can control the ThunderStik in either Reduced Mode (12-channel) or Standard Mode (32-channel). Both allow smooth 0-100 percent linear dimming, multiple strobe effects, macro effects, RGBW color mixing, separate background color control, built-in patterns, and speed controllable scanner effects. This fixture is equipped with a four-button LCD control panel, compact and sleek housing, powerCON compatible power in/out connections, 3-pin/5-pin DMX in/out jacks and integral Omega mounts. The fixture is also backed with Blizzard’s two-year warranty. MSRP is $899.99.
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SAN JUAN, PR – Musique Xpress provided a collection of high-output fixtures from Chauvet Professional for David Ayala’s light show accompanying Reggaeton artist Arcangel’s recent ‘Los Favoritos’ concert in Puerto Rico. The rig included 24 Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving beam/spots, 20 COLORado 4 IP RGBW linear washes and 18 Next NXT-1 moving RGBW panels.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Barco and High End Systems will be enhancing the visuals at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest this year. During the semi-finals and finals in Stockholm, Sweden, a full stack of high-brightness Barco projectors, 10 of which are equipped with Barco’s High End Systems’ MMS-200 moving mirror systems, and Barco’s E2 screen management system will be used by the design team to light more than 40 artists.
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SYDNEY – Chameleon Touring Systems added Solaris Flares from TMB to their inventory of gear for clients in Australia. The RGBW LED fixtures were chosen in part for their versatility (they can wash, blind and strobe) and performance specs (only about 1000 watts of LED generating more than 30,000 lumens of output at a 1200Hz refresh rate).
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