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The Profitable Green Stage

The Profitable Green Stage

When you look at a hybrid automobile and a conventional car side by side, you wouldn’t necessarily notice any difference until you looked under the hood. That’s kind of how Sustainable Waves, a turnkey staging/lighting/sound systems provider in Austin, Texas, likes to think of itself when it delivers portable music and events stages complete with wash lighting and audio. Except when you look under their hood, you’ll see solar panels, not an internal combustion engine.

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Tortured Artists

My friend Kenny Mednick is also a lighting designer who illuminates musicians on their tours. While I was speaking to him this year I mentioned that I had been working with some less-than-pleasant people in the last year, namely musicians who were, for lack of a better word, mean, disgruntled people.

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R&M Stagemaker SM2 Hoist

The Stagemaker SM2 hoist from R&M Materials Handling is a ¼-ton electric chain hoist designed for touring events and small venues such as concert halls, theatres, clubs, churches, ballrooms, exhibition halls and trade shows.

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Martin LightJockey V2.9.1

A new version of Martin Professional’s Windows-based LightJockey lighting controller is now available. LightJockey v.2.9.1. includes Vista 32-bit compatibility, new fixture updates and Universal USB/DMX interface configuration and use when running under Windows Vista.

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