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Clearwing III plus Look Solutions Fog Photos- LIVE!

Hey everyone! Well I just got to see a kick ass Les Claypool show and I'll try to write a little bit about it for next week in the mean time here's some more gear from the warehouse at Clearwing and I'll wrap it up with some live pics of the Look Solutions fogger I am reviewing. Keep an eye out for the review I believe it will be in the magazine soon! After doing this writing thing for awhile I've decided I want to teach in college once I settle down towards the end of this crazy ride. Enough babbling here's the gear…

 

Break outs- Used to bridge soco power connection with either stage pin, Edison, or L6-20 power. Both male and female connectors are used.

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Golden Voices

Celtic Woman sings their way into the Big Time.

You say you’ve never heard of Celtic Woman? You may not have, but millions of PBS viewers and concertgoers certainly are in on the secret, although it may not be one for much longer. Having notched three successful albums on the Billboard charts (including a recent Top 10 entry) with no MTV presence, the Irish folk/ pop project offering both covers and originals has beguiled audiences with a quartet of pretty voices, a vigorous violinist, pulse-racing percussion and a smooth mixture of energetic and ethereal moments. Currently finishing up a 100-plus show tour, Celtic Woman is becoming one of the biggest (yet quietest) pop sensations around. “It’s wild,” declares lighting designer Tom Kenny. “It’s one of those phenomenon like Riverdance that goes under the radar, then all of a sudden, becomes huge.”

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Road Tests

ROSCO LITE-PAD IS READY FOR YOUR CLOSEUP

By Richard Cadena 

If you thought you’d seen every LED light source known to man, think again.

The age of LED lighting has yet to hit full stride, but already there is an abundance of LED luminaires for the entertainment lighting market. They all work pretty much the same way, with either RGB color mixing or white and amber LEDs and focusing lenses — or do they?
 

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The Corporate Band LD

I work a lot of corporate shows each year. Many are events where a company brings its national sales staff to a nice resort for four days of motivational speaking and sales pitches. These events usually include a dinner followed by a big-name musical act. These acts are usually bands that were big 20 years ago and had a slew of hits that they gladly replay for a phenomenal fee at your corporate dinner party.

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Got Dem Dirty, Low-Down, Trade Show Blues

Trade shows are the standing punch line of any industry — can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. Or can you? LDI, the putative main show of the professional lighting and staging industry for the last two decades, is experiencing some significant turbulence this year. As reported a few months ago, Martin Professional and High End Systems have both opted out of the Orlando expo this year, the first time both have not exhibited, and Vari-Lite has announced that it will cut back its presence at the show. Syncrolite is expected to do the same.

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NAB and the Breakthrough Moments

Video didn’t spring fully-formed from a media server…

[For those of us who are new to the video world by way of lighting, the entire history of the development of media servers, non-linear editing, and all the tools of the video trade are as much of a mystery as the plethora of video formats. To those of you who are new to the lighting world by way of the video world, the entire lack of knowledge about these things from the lighting side is as much of a mystery as DMX512. In this article, Paul Berliner bridges the gap for us. – ed.]

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