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Tracking the Talent: Synchronizing Movements with Alice in Chains

Tracking the Talent: Synchronizing Movements with Alice in Chains

Now and then, outside of my "bread and butter" role as the world's finest tech writer and world's worst fly-fisherman, I get the opportunity to venture outside of the corporate vacuum – out where the crews work. This wonderful perk has taken me to Rascal Flatts concerts, The Who concerts, Reba McIntyre concerts and many more – to meet the crews and write about how the creative LDs and set designers put their video tools to work.

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Elation ELED Par RGB Zoom

Elation Professional's ELED Par RGB Zoom, an RGB-mixing LED PAR, has a zoom feature goes from 10 to 60 degrees in less than one second. Well-suited for stage shows, theaters, clubs and live concerts, the fixture offers a tight beam for long throw or wide coverage for short throw applications, offering a combination of dynamic beam control, bright output, smooth RGB color mixing and flicker-free operation.

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The Travel Bug

I am fortunate that, as an automated lighting programmer, my work takes me all over the world, although I rarely program in my hometown. Travel has its ups and downs (pun intended), and you must learn to make the most of your time as you travel.

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Vegas, Baby!

As goes Maine, so goes the nation," according to the adage that putatively predicts American presidential elections. Replace "Maine" with "Las Vegas" and you'd get a pretty good predictor of the health of the corporate event market in the U.S.

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The Art of the Schmooze

Over the years, I've come to realize that talent isn't always enough to get you by in life. You might be a gifted designer, but if you can't talk a good game, sometimes a gig may pass you by. To keep working steadily in this wacky business of ours, you have to have an edge, something that makes you stand out, something that makes people remember you long after they've witnessed your talents on a production or shared a meal with you. You've got to have your schmooze down.

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Boca Flasher SBL-WWW

The SBL-WWW has been added to Boca's brick lights. It features 48 1.2W LEDs per linear foot and "CleanDim" technology. It has a CRI of 92 and white light with a choice of color temperatures including 2700, 3000, 3500, 4100, 5000, 6500K or custom (monochromatic triads).

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