Did you see Fortune’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For in 2009?” Don’t kill yourself looking for your company on the list because it’s not there. Not a single company from the live event production industry made the list. Who are they kidding?
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Simon Sidi is a well-respected lighting designer, but he’s made a mess of his latest tour — on purpose. After handling the design of the American Idols Live tour for a long time, he went away to pursue other projects. But now he’s back as the production designer and he brought with him some fresh ideas.
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Steven Cohen Productions, in conjunction with Epic Production Technologies and Syncrolite are supporting the reunion of piano men Elton John and Billy Joel for their Face2Face tour with a lighting rig that includes gear from Martin Professional.
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A 7.8-meter-high mechanical elephant, which was used to transport band members to their places on the stage during the opening of Take That’s Circus Live Tour, was only part of the high-wire technological feat performed for Take That’s 20 Circus-themed stadium shows, which were attended by over 1 million fans in the U.K.
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A.C. Special Projects Ltd. recently implemented Patrick Woodroffe’s architectural lighting design for Somerset House. Somerset House’s director, Gwyn Miles, commissioned the project.
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If you aren’t aware of the seismic shift towards LED sources in the entertainment lighting industry, welcome back to Planet Earth. Even if you have been hanging out in the International Space Station since the first crew occupied it in 2000, you’ve probably heard or read about the advantages of LEDs — low power consumption, high efficacy in lumens per watt, low heat, long life and more.
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Even though they were introduced to the market in the 1980s, you can blame the World Series of Poker and ESPN’s Trick Shot Magic for their exponential rise in popularity. The subject at hand is the versatile lipstick camera, also known in the surveillance and security biz as micro cameras and spy cameras.
Read More »When I was a very young child, my mother used to ball up a piece of red thread, moisten it and stick on my forehead to cure my hiccups. Oddly enough, it worked every time. But it had to be red thread; blue, black, yellow, or green just wouldn’t do. Why? Because that’s the way it has always been done.
Read More »I have written before about how certain tools of the Internet have been useful to the automated lighting programmer, but recently I realized just how important YouTube is to our profession. The Internet has come a long way in recent years, and now surfing the web at high speeds is commonplace.
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Over the years I’ve watched technology grow in leaps and bounds. America always seems to be a step ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to new gear and ways of setting it up, but eventually everyone catches up. I like to watch as they do, just as much as I like teaching in countries that are way behind. Last week I went back to Africa for the first time in years and noticed quite a change.
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American DJ’s new Theatrix Pro 48 LED is an RGB+W color mixing luminaire with 48 one-watt LEDs (12 each red, green, blue and white). It has seven modes of operation with DMX with 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 16 or 19 channels of control plus stand-alone with built-in color changing programs in automatic or sound activation mode.
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ETC has released the iRFR (Radio Focus Remote for iPhone and iPod Touch) and is donating the proceeds to Behind the Scenes and Light Relief. The iRFR offers all the functionality of an ETC Net3™ Radio Focus Remote unit, interfacing to ETC’s Eos®, Ion®, Element™, Congo® and Congo jr control desks.
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