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An Important Trait You Need for Working in this Industry

An Important Trait You Need for Working in this Industry

I think that the “all hands-on deck” mentality is something that’s really important. And never getting too big for your britches; always realizing that at the end of the day nothing would happen without everybody else in the room. It is all teamwork, so staying humble and respectful is a huge one. We’ve all seen people who get jaded by the industry, so I try, every day that I get to be on site, to take a minute to be grateful. I always think, ‘I can’t believe somebody pays me enough money for this to be my career.’

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Massive Productions and Chauvet Professional Connect Burna Boy to Fans in Curaçao

For Burna Boy’s supercharged performance at the Curaçao Festival Center in late October, Massive Productions’ Ramon Ramiz stepped in as LD for the artist, lighting the Grammy-winning singer and his fans with the power of 90 Chauvet Professional fixtures from Massive Productions and its partner, Aruba Elite Productions.

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A Lighting Panel with Marsha Stern’s Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor® Episode #012

Lighting Designer Marsha Stern started out lighting for discos in the 1970s before transitioning into architectural and architainment lighting projects in the 90s. She has a podcast, Heartbeat of the Dance Floor® that looks back fondly on the glory days of disco. In episode #12, Stern has assembled a lighting design panel to discuss lighting in those early days. Here is the video replay of A Lighting Panel with Special Guests Ken Billington, Jason Kantrowitz, (KB Associates / The Red Parrot),  Anne Militello (Vortex Lighting / California Institute of the Arts), and Paul Gregory (Focus Lighting / Saturday Night Fever dance floor):

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Vari-Lite University Outreach Program Delivers VL2600 Uplift for the University of Houston

The University of Houston recently took advantage of the University Outreach Program from Vari-Lite, the originators of the modern moving head and Signify entertainment lighting brand, which enables emerging lighting design students to elevate their production looks and facilitates hands-on professional fixture experience. The latest collaborative project saw Andrew Archer, who is undertaking a BFA in Technical Theatre Production, create an inspired design for the play The Learned Ladies using VL2600 SPOT luminaires.Read More »Vari-Lite University Outreach Program Delivers VL2600 Uplift for the University of Houston

LD Raphael Grebenstein Deploys Over 120 GLP impression FR1 for ORF’s Vorarlberg Broadcast Studio

On 5th November, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) broadcast its anniversary program Ghörig – Party, Celebrities, Major Hits. 50 Years of ORF’s Vorarlberg Studio. The show, moderated by Inés Mäser and Norbert Oberhauser and directed by Nikolai Dörler (KSR Filmproduktion e.U.), was recorded in September in Studio 3 of the Vorarlberg studio in Dornbirn.Read More »LD Raphael Grebenstein Deploys Over 120 GLP impression FR1 for ORF’s Vorarlberg Broadcast Studio

Claypaky Achieves Key Milestone in its “CP Green” Sustainability Project

Claypaky has achieved a key milestone in its “CP Green” Sustainability Project by gaining ISO 14064-1:2018 Certification as the first entertainment lighting company being certified in the Carbon Inventory Management System. In March 2022, Claypaky launched its “CP Green – Spotlight on Sustainability” initiative for environmental sustainability. The project was undertaken in cooperation with Spinlife, spin-off of the University of Padova. The Spinlife team provides public and private organizations of all sizes with tailored consulting plans regarding strategic environmental management and sustainability management techniques.Read More »Claypaky Achieves Key Milestone in its “CP Green” Sustainability Project