Trey Songz’ “Passion, Pain & Pleasure” Tour
Shortly after Eric Marchwinski graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston with a degree in Music Production and Engineering, he found himself in the hot seat of his first concert tour.
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ELC Checker
ELC calls this unit the Checker Handheld DMX512/RDM toolbox, but unlike your father's toolbox, this one is digital. It does fit easily in the hand and it is battery operated, making it truly handheld, and it does work with both DMX512 and RDM. But what, exactly, does it do?
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Collaboration between academia and business has become, well, big business. Since 1980 there have been over 4,300 start-ups that were incubated in U.S. universities, and new spin-off and technology and patent licensing deals are cut seemingly weekly.
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Fred Flintstone was a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lodge #26 and was continually trying to gain leader status of this group by becoming the "Grand Poobah." This high-ranking position would have allowed him to rule over all others and reign supreme over the group's members.
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Glamorous Movie Star Helps Make Wireless DMX Possible
Suppose that you are a high ranking U.S. naval officer just before World War II. Germany has successfully controlled the seas with superior numbers of submarines, Winston Churchill is very nervous about it, and the U.S. is feeling threatened. Along comes someone with an idea that could provide an edge in the undeclared war to keep shipping lanes open, thus insuring the survival of the Allied countries.
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Lighting a Jam Band
Sometimes I think that no concert-going audience enjoys a good light show more than the hippies who attend "jam band" concerts. These bands don't follow a set list like 99 percent of the other bands on tour. They usually start one song and then drift into an avant-garde jam session before finding their way back into the original song, or segue into another. They also tend to cover other artists songs at a different tempo than the original version. And the audiences tend to dance along as if they were in a trance.
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FocusTrack Paperwork To Go
FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, now offers Paperwork To Go, allowing users to keep paperwork in electronic form and carry it in an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
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J.R. Clancy Gets Patent for PowerLift Feature
A feature in the design of J. R. Clancy's PowerLift automated hoist has been issued U. S. Patent 7,766,308. Within the hoist, the use of a sliding drum on a fixed shaft creates a zero fleet angle as the lift lines leave the drum. The more efficient functioning of the drum and shaft reduces both size and maintenance requirements.
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Lex Slim Dimmer Plus
Lex Products has added DMX512 support to its Slim Dimmer line of compact 1.8kW dimmers in the form of the Slim Dimmer Plus. Designed specifically for television and film location work, as well as theatrical and event dimming, the extruded aluminum housing is designed to withstand the production and rental environment.
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Mega Systems Disco V2.5
Mega-Lite announced the release of version 2.5 for Disco, a lighting controller designed for use in nightclubs and bars.
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Stage Technologies Sculptor Animation Toolkit
Sculptor Animation Toolkit from Stage Technologies is an add-on for Autodesk 3ds Max, a software package commonly used to animate films, movies and games.
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Barco ScreenPRO-II Software Bundle
A new software bundle recently released by Barco enables the ScreenPRO-II with EOC to utilize input DVI sources as background or PIP sources. ScreenPRO-II can also be operated with a DVI matrix router, further increasing the number of available DVI sources.
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