For the first time at the 2010 Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, a special roundtable session was held on the "greening" of music tours and production. The result was anything but predictable. Eight diverse and accomplished pros dove headlong into a two-hour conversation that began with the technicalities and practicalities of environmentally responsible touring practices. They ended on a deeper note delving into the value and worth of our industry "going green."
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Over the last decade, stage lighting has taken some extreme curves and turns. What started as a weak source of light in questionable fixtures has emerged as a most viable source of light with new fixtures emerging at a rapid pace. LED lighting has become quite the buzzword with touring productions, bands and management, and is strongly associated with green lighting or environmentally friendly lighting.
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When the package arrived in the mail, I thought it was a mistake. Surely an entire dimmer couldn't fit in the small box that was delivered. When I picked up the box, my suspicions were confirmed; the box was way too light to have much of anything in it and certainly not a dimmer.
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Now and then, outside of my "bread and butter" role as the world's finest tech writer and world's worst fly-fisherman, I get the opportunity to venture outside of the corporate vacuum – out where the crews work. This wonderful perk has taken me to Rascal Flatts concerts, The Who concerts, Reba McIntyre concerts and many more – to meet the crews and write about how the creative LDs and set designers put their video tools to work.
Read More »Over the years, I've come to realize that talent isn't always enough to get you by in life. You might be a gifted designer, but… Read More »The Art of the Schmooze
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Elation Professional's ELED Par RGB Zoom, an RGB-mixing LED PAR, has a zoom feature goes from 10 to 60 degrees in less than one second. Well-suited for stage shows, theaters, clubs and live concerts, the fixture offers a tight beam for long throw or wide coverage for short throw applications, offering a combination of dynamic beam control, bright output, smooth RGB color mixing and flicker-free operation.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) Rigging-Arena and Entertainment examinations will be offered for the first time at InfoComm this year. The application deadline is set for May 7, 2010.
Read More »FRANKFURT, Germany – Shortly after Prolight+Sound, TMB announced an agreement to distribute LumenRadio of Sweden's products in North America, Central America and the U.K.
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MIAMI – For the 2010 Super Bowl Week festivities on South Beach, Florida, Direct TV hosted the 4th Annual Celebrity Beach Bowl, and Light Action Productions, with support from sister companies Applied Electronics and Staging Dimensions, tackled the challenge of building a stadium on the beach.
Read More »I am fortunate that, as an automated lighting programmer, my work takes me all over the world, although I rarely program in my hometown. Travel has its ups and downs (pun intended), and you must learn to make the most of your time as you travel.
Read More »As goes Maine, so goes the nation," according to the adage that putatively predicts American presidential elections. Replace "Maine" with "Las Vegas" and you'd get a pretty good predictor of the health of the corporate event market in the U.S.
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Over the years, I've come to realize that talent isn't always enough to get you by in life. You might be a gifted designer, but if you can't talk a good game, sometimes a gig may pass you by. To keep working steadily in this wacky business of ours, you have to have an edge, something that makes you stand out, something that makes people remember you long after they've witnessed your talents on a production or shared a meal with you. You've got to have your schmooze down.
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