Why use a binary preset number?
Having a this level of control over the video images used in a show is highly efficient and attractive for many reasons. First of all,… Read More »Why use a binary preset number?
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This is Your Wake Up Call
Two words: click here -> www.scottmcleod.org/didyouknow.wmv Any questions?
Read More »Eye Candy
Today I am in charge of eye candy. This involves throwing different pieces of media onto soft LED panels and some V9 hidef video modules that Nocturne has brought down to WTTW's TV studio in Chicago.
Read More »Scheduling and Walking The Line
OK, so now that I have the introduction out of the way. I am going to speed up with the more recent things I’ve been up to. Recently I’ve been running some bigger shows through outside production. I got to run a great club show with an LSC Maxim XL console 6 Clay Paky mirrors and 6 Martin 250 washes with 200 pars at The Rams Head Live in Baltimore, MD. They have a fun rig and I think the pat pad on the Maxim was fun. You can pretty much use this pad like a touch screen but instead you can assign parameters by moving your finger right or left across a certain part of the pat pad.
Know Your Way Around
The most successful production designers I know are whizzes with the computer — CAD, visualization, rendering and animation for starters — they’re great communicators, they… Read More »Know Your Way Around
Read More »Keeping Your Old Numbers
Being found is important in our biz. I think that’s why people keep their old email addresses and phone #’s. I got a couple calls this week from cell phones with area codes I recognized as San Francisco and Atlanta. However, both of these calls originated from friends I know who now live in Seattle.
Read More »Saturday Night
I just spent 90 minutes jumping up and down behind a lighting console. I wasn’t angry. I was lighting a punk rock band.
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High School Auditorium Gets High-Tech Facelift
Complete refurbishment, acoustic overhaul and state-of-the-art lighting and video installations: it sounds like improvements made for a theatrical company of national significance, not a high school auditorium in Kentwood, Mich. But sometimes star treatment is found in strange places — and East Kentwood High School’s refurbished high school now contains technology and planning that puts it on par with many of the country’s top performance venues.
Read More »American Audio Visual Center, Inc.
Who:
American Audio Visual Center, Inc. (AAVC). Within AAVC is Team Staging.
What:
Audio-visual and multimedia staging company providing turn-key presentation, multimedia and staging support for corporations, producers, meeting planners, associations, product launches, corporate meetings and events.
Sand, Sun and Insanity
Hey, it’s New Year’s in Rio. No worries.
Last month I got a call from my friend, Alex Skowron, the LD for the Black Eyed Peas. The band had booked themselves on a beach in Rio for New Year’s Eve, but they had another gig on the 29th in Las Vegas. He couldn’t make it to Brazil until the show, so I covered for him. Dave Hill had designed a replica stage and lighting rig for Rio and five other cities around the globe. I was to clone Alex’s show to Dave’s rig for a show that would be broadcast worldwide. I kept a running diary of observations, and you’re in luck because I’d like to share them with you.
Read More »The Amazing Power of Community
“I not only use all of the brains I have, but all I can borrow.” — Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States (1856-1924)
I, Swami Candela of the third millennium, know all, see all and tell all, except that which I do not know, see or tell. I know the words to “Louie, Louie,” and I know how many LEDs fit on the head of a pin. I hold all the answers to your lighting questions.
Read More »Touring is About to Get a Whole Lot More Complicated
Last August, British airport security agencies announced a ban on boarding with musical instruments on scheduled commercial aircraft departing the U.K. for abroad, a restriction that applied as well to tours that stop or lay over in a U.K. airport and then move on to other ports of call. The move drew instant complaints and, proving that musicians — even drummers — can organize themselves when properly motivated, a groundswell of protest that ultimately got the restrictions eased…somewhat.
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