The Impact of Lighting Technology
(or “How I Learned to Climb Truss”)
When I think about how fast the entertainment lighting industry has grown over the last 10 years alone, it makes my head spin an infinite number of pan rotations.
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Portrait of the Artist as a PAR 60
Lighting and projection have always been considered technical crafts that support the artist, but what about when the lighting and projection are themselves the art, extensions of an artist?
Read More »E1.31: An Offer You Can’t Resist
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up and learn about the latest and greatest protocol to take the lighting industry by storm. It’s not DMX, it’s not Art-Net, and it’s not ACN. No, I am talking about ANSI E1.31.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.” —Will Durant
Let’s face it — most of us got into this business to get out of having to get a “real” job. If nothing else, we’re here because we enjoy doing more than we enjoy reading and writing.
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Cable Management
The efficiency of the load in and out of any show is directly related to the cable management of everyone involved,” says production manager/rigger Dano Rowley. The man is right. One of my pet peeves is a sloppy stage with cables strewn all over the place.
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American DJ ProPAR 56 LED
American DJ’s new ProPAR 56RGB is an RGB color-mixing LED fixture and the ProPAR 56CWWW is a warm/cool white LED fixture. Each features 36 1-watt LEDs: the ProPAR 56RGB has 12 red, 12 green and 12 blue LEDs and the ProPAR 56CWWW has 18 warm white (3000K) and 18 cool white (6,000K) LEDs.
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Gerriets Dance Floor Tape Applicator
Gerriets’ G-TR dance floor tape applicator gives users a way of taping dance floors and carpets in an upright position. The ergonomically designed tool, which weights in at 11 pounds, can reduce stress on back and knees and helps get taping jobs done three to four times faster than working by hand.
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Ideal Digital Light Meter
The new digital light meter from Ideal offers four measuring ranges up to 200,000 lux or 20,000 footcandles with an accuracy of +/-3 percent at a retail price of $149 (U.S.), or about 25 percent less than competitive light meters with similar feature-sets.
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LightConverse 3D Virtual Show Platform V40
The new generation of the Lightconverse 3D Virtual Show Platform provides a solution for integrating and visualizing multiple show related disciplines in real-time including lighting, video, laser, pyro and DMX-controlled moving objects in a photo-realistic environment.
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Martin Maxxyz 2.60 Software Release
Martin Professional’s new software version 2.60 for Maxxyz lighting controllers includes Mark Cues, effect generator macros, grouping functions and more. A single cue or the entire cue list can be set as Mark Cue, a.k.a. “Move-in-Black,” suppressing the need to program standby cues.
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SpotTrack
SpotTrack is a new tool for making and managing followspot cue sheets from the people behind FocusTrack. It can manage shows with one to four spots and reduces the amount of typing required. It provides more information than spot cues including spot setup (type, color load, operator), details of characters in the show (name, cast name, understudy name), pictures of characters and cue lists, which can be imported from FocusTrack which can, in turn, import data from ETC Eos/Ion, MA grandMA and Strand 500-series consoles.
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Barco/High End Systems Cyberlight 2.0
The Cyberlight 2.0 from Barco/High End Systems offers increased output over the original Cyberlight, RDM and DMX control and addressing, updated software capabilities and new Lithopatterns and effects. It features a 2,000-watt short arc lamp and an electronic ballast.
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