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What NOT to Do

What NOT to Do

A career as an automated lighting programming can be both fun and rewarding. It is important to always improve your craft and keep up to date with consoles and fixtures. You also need to remain professional in all circumstances to ensure a long and successful career. I have heard about programmers who have ruined their careers through thoughtless actions, bad attitudes and other improper acts. Several of them were once considered the cream of the crop, but now, sadly, they barely even make the “where are they now” list. By studying the actions of others, you can learn how to avoid wrecking your career and ensure a long and profitable programming profession.

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Illustration by Andy Au

I Got Somebody for That

I’m one of those guys who likes to do everything himself. I like to draw my own plots. I like to make my own artistic renderings. I like to load in my own shows. I like to paint my own house too, but I don’t always have time to do any of these things myself. So for just about everything there is in life, I got somebody for it.

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Basspod Stage at EDC Vegas Featured 82 Nexus 4x4 COB LED Panels. Photo by Aldo Parenti

Basspod Stage at EDC Vegas Featured 82 Nexus 4×4 COB LED Panels

LAS VEGAS – For the 200-by-80-foot Basspod stage at this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) music festival held June 20-22, 30 acts including Pegboard Nerds, Infected Mushroom and Loadstar, among others, performed with a lighting design overseen by LD Steve Lieberman. The rig included 82  Nexus 4×4 COB LED panels from Chauvet Professional.

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From left, Francois Juliat, managing director of Robert Juliat; Bob Gordon, chairman of A.C.T Lighting; Claus Spreyer, sales director of Robert Juliat; and Ben Saltzman, president of A.C.T Lighting

Robert Juliat Names A.C.T Lighting U.S. Distributor

WALLINGFORD, CT —Robert Juliat named A.C.T Lighting its exclusive distributor for all Robert Juliat products in the U.S. Robert Juliat USA’s Fred Lindauer and Pete Engel will join the A.C.T Lighting sales group, and the RJ USA office here will be closing after the end of 2014 as A.C.T Lighting manages all sales and customer service issues going forward.

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Hometown Heroes logo 2014

2014 Hometown Hero Award Nominations Now Open!

LAS VEGAS — Each year PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards. These awards honor the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. The best part about this is that PLSN readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best.

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Riedel Provides Communications Solutions for Red Bull Air Race

Riedel Provides Communications Solutions for Red Bull Air Race

WUPPERTAL, Germany – For the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, which ran annually from 2003 to 2010 before returning in 2014 with races held in Abu Dhabi (Feb. 28), Rovinj, Croatia (April 12) and Putrajaya, Malaysia (May 18), relied upon a signal distribution system built by Riedel engineers for video, audio, communications, and data. The MediorNet real-time media network includes seven MediorNet Compact frames and three MediorNet Modular frames. Technicians interface audio signals via MADI and Riedel’s RockNet digital audio network solution in combination with MediorNet to integrate the event’s main mixing console, located in the OB van that provided the big-screen mix for the live audience. Riedel also supplied the wireless video links and HD cameras for the racing planes’ onboard cameras, thus enabling pictures to be delivered from the pilots’ perspectives. The 2014 series makes several more stops before finishing in China in November.

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Nanolumens And ICG Create An Immersive Fan Experience For The Atlanta Falcons

ATLANTA — Even through the new Atlanta Falcons football stadium isn’t scheduled to open until 2017, NanoLumens and ICG have teamed up to create an immersive “sensory surround” curved LED display installation for the stadium’s Preview Center. The installation features a 303” long elliptical LED NanoCurve display that features a 5MM pixel pitch and measures 219” wide and 42-5/8” tall.

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grandMA2 Rocks on Hedwig and the Angry Inch

LOS ANGELES – Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s use of grandMA2 lighting consoles keeps the production on track at the Belasco Theatre.  The lighting and video for Hedwig were programmed on two grandMA2 full-size consoles.  During rehearsals Kevin Adams, video designer Ben Pearcy, associate lighting designer Paul Toben and second assistant lighting designer Jimmy Lawlor used grandMA onPC stations to monitor the production.  Now, both lighting and video run nightly on a single grandMA2 light with an onPC command wing and an NPU as back up in the compact booth.  

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Cyc FX8s Are A Model Fixture on Germany’s Next Top Model

Getting the right mix of lighting for both TV and live elements was crucial for the final of Germany’s 2014 Next Top Model so LD Manuel Da Costa turned to Robe’s ROBIN CycFX 8 fixtures. He used 44 x CycFX 8s in total, mostly rigged to the side stage wings and used to wash parts of the catwalk as general illumination and also to create some bold and distinctive effects.

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