Nearly every automated lighting console has a concept that allows for multiple banks or pages of playbacks. These pages (as they are usually called) allow the user to immediately change the purpose and function of playback buttons on the desk. Pages are very important in many different genres of entertainment, and it is important for lighting programmers to understand the possibilities and features associated with them.
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Moving up from lighting director to lighting designer can be an organic process. Or there could be an unusual story involved, as there is for Scott Pearson.
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Please welcome this Month’s LD at Large, John Featherstone. He has been illuminating just about everything since he was a mere lad. He is a principal in the worldwide Lighting and Visual design firm known as Lightswitch. –ed.
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NEW YORK – ANSI’s Board of Standards Review approved E1.39 on January 28. It was published the same day. ANSI E1.39 – 2015, Entertainment Technology – Selection and Use of Personal Fall Arrest Systems on Portable Structures Used in the Entertainment Industry, is now available for free download at http://tsp.plasa.org/freestandards. The free download is made possible by the sponsorship of Prosight Specialty Insurance.
Read More »LONDON – d3 Technologies named Herdecke, Germany based publitec as their latest rental partner. The AV company specializes in innovative approaches to system integration and technical services and now has several d3 pro range systems for its rental customers.
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ADJ’s new Inno Pocket Spot Twins offers users two independently-controlled moving heads, separate color/GOBO wheels and a capacity for innovative dual-beam effects with one fixture.
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LEEK, The Netherlands – Experience the new website from Prolyte Group Prolyte is proud to announce the launch of its new website. Setting out to create a modern, full functional online platform to offer not only product information, but also inspiration and technical support, Prolyte aimed to reach out to its users by offering diverse yet relevant information for product as well as technical aspects.
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Blizzard Lighting’s RGBW 4-in-1 LED PAR can is designed to meet the needs of mobile DJs, working bands or for permanent installation within a variety of venues. The fixture has 12 10W LEDs with features including scratch resistant composite housing with dual mounting brackets for flexible positioning.
Read More »GLENDALE, AZ – GLP’s X4 Bar 20 LED batten made an auspicious debut – at the Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show Feb. 1, 2015. For the duration of the 12 minute segment, at which Katy Perry headlined, LD Bob Barnhart (of Full Flood) used 12 of the new X4 Bar 20 fixtures along with 16 GLP impression X4 XL fixtures.
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DALLAS – During the inaugural College Football Playoff in North Texas, Solomon Group was tasked with producing championship weekend’s premier concert series. AT&T Playoff Playlist Live was staged at American Airlines Center in Dallas and featured back-to-back nights of entertainment headlined by Lenny Kravitz Jan. 10 and Sting Jan. 11, just prior to the big game itself on Jan. 12 in AT&T Stadium, home to the Dallas Cowboys. The Ohio State Buckeyes beat the Oregon Ducks 42-20.
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MONTREAL, Canada – Solotech provided the new scoreboard for Olympic Park stadium here. The new scoreboard features a 16mm pixel pitch LED display measuring 33.4 by 9.4 meters (WxH) – 3,380 square feet in all. The new screen, one of the largest in Canada, replaces two smaller screens installed in 1992. Along with the scoreboard, Solotech supplied and installed an electrical distribution system, a fiber video distribution system, image processors and a sports scoring system.
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