Hello to all, picking up where we left last week. I’ve spent sometime watching live shows, whether it is in front of my eye, TiVo, television or DVD player. I recall seeing Primus, Galactic, Muse, and Nine Inch nails very visually oriented shows.
Read More »Large gauge feeder cable and multi-core power cable are common sights at various concert, corporate, and touring events. If the person in charge of the… Read More »The Reason for “Figure Eight” Coiling
Read More »I have long been a supporter of people who ask questions. I would much rather have a lighting tech ask me a stupid question, then assume the wrong answer and have to do something twice because they were afraid to ask.
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I have a lot of respect and admirantion for Keny Whitright, the guy who invented the color scroller and started Wybron out of his garage… Read More »Wybron Ups the Ante
Read More »Ok so last week I ended the blog by telling you about how I incorporate track lighting into my light show. Well, at first I embarrassingly zip tied them to mic stands. It was really a desperate attempt to get a vertical ACL wash across the stage. It began to be a pain in the ass for the band and myself to drag them around so I took the two pieces I had, untied them and cut them down to about a length of three feet each. The day I went to set them up during a load in a really cool thing happened. I placed them horizontally on the ground one in front of Nathan’s bass rig, and the other in front of Matt’s guitar rig. When I patched everything and turned up the faders I was astonished. It lit the rigs up so intense. Everyone looked over at me and said it looked bad ass. I was complimented in a weird way that day by Geoff our drummer and Erik our sound engineer. They told me that I have the most f#*ked up ability to take something shitty and make it into something cool. I was proud that I made it cool, but also analyzing that it was shitty in the first place.
Read More »I majored in English in college. I can write a mean resume'. I can also write my own opinions here. And nothing pisses me off more than a company that is trying to peddle a product, but fails to write a decent manual. Or at least a pamphlet that can explain to any idiot like myself how to operate something they just spent money on and need to make use of right away.
Read More »I get a lot of emails and calls this time of year. Some are old friends, some acquaintances and some people I've never met. They are all looking for the same thing. Work.
Read More »Certification won’t produce dramatic results, but it will change the nature of the business; it will affect who works and who does not, and could… Read More »Certification Approaches
Read More »Plenty of companies talk about being innovative, but how many really walk the innovation walk? I'm in Colorado Springs at the invitation of Wybron, who is… Read More »Talking Talk-Back
Read More »In the whacky world of Nook, (where I reside as king), I find myself lighting just about anything. This weekend I lit a Celtic folk trio for a PBS TV show. Upstaging lighting offered up my services to a local director (thanks guys) and he hired me to wiggle some lights.
Read More »In this month’s Technopolis, you hopefully found me expounding on the virtues of (actually) reading a User’s Manual.
I’m sitting in the Tennessee Theatre, watching the tail-end of a load-out from the front-row seats. As I sit here hoping that the trucks would magically load themselves, I go over the week’s gig in my head and am reminded of one of my most common uses of a manual on-site.
Read More »I'm not good at describing experiences. If you ask me how many amps flows through a load at a certain voltage I might be able… Read More »Don’t Ask Me Why – It Just Rocked
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