Last year, John Mayer’s Battle Studies tour was humming along globally. Chaos Visual Productions, winner of the 2010 Parnelli Award for Video Company of the Year, had assembled a complex 50-by-20-foot LED video wall composed of 45 Martin LC 2140 panels with four Barco 20k projectors that shot onto a custom screen, as well as a four-HD camera system to capture and play back the concert to the audiences.
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Automated Lighting Programmers must be aware of many concepts when programming a show. One of the most important concepts with any automated lighting console is known as tracking. I have written many articles and even devoted a chapter in my book (The Automated Lighting Programmer’s Handbook) to explain this concept, as it is essential that programmers completely grasp the tracking idea. Once tracking is understood, the ability of the programmer grows tenfold. However, there is another concept that goes hand-in-hand with tracking known as state.
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Anyone who knows LD Seth Jackson knows he is the original “Mr. Nice Guy.” So it came as startling to many — including Jackson himself — when he was asked to design the production for Alice Cooper’s No More Mr. Nice Guy tour. “My reaction was, ‘Wait…Huh?” Jackson says. But his background in legitimate theatre attracted the original shock rocker’s team, as they were taking this new production in a new direction.
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I just got back from taking a cruise. I didn’t go for a relaxing vacation, mind you, I went to work. There’s a new trend now where bands are chartering these ships and creating a musical ride for a few days. This particular ride consisted of 2,500 diehard fans who boarded the vessel for four days of alcohol infused, music blaring, full-on debauchery. That is for the people who paid. For those of us who get paid to control the theatrical lighting on one of these floating tubs, it’s quite an exercise in futility. I believe the majority of these ships start out with some pretty sweet light rigs. Somewhere along the way they seem to go to hell in a bucket.
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PETALUMA, CA — Furman’s new website, furmancontractor.com, is designed to server commercial AV installers with detailed product descriptions, specifications, application diagrams, high-resolution photos, and downloadable DWG files for the company’s new Contractor Series of power conditioners/sequencers.
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High Resolution Engineering’s new DVI over fiber video extension kits support Lightware USA’s DVI-OPT series of transmitters and receivers. The company also offers rentals of Lightware’s 80×80 Multi-Format DVI/Fiber matrix, which converts the video signal internally in the matrix and eliminates the need for extra DVI-to-fiber converters.
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