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Brad Schiller

Spinning in Circles

The automated lighting industry has seen a new trend in lighting products over the last few years. We now have many creative LED products that are making use of continuous rotation of pan and tilt. This type of movement opens up some exciting new possibilities and designers are placing the fixtures all over their plots. The technology to endlessly rotate fixtures is not new, and in fact was used quite some time ago with standard discharge fixtures. However, the concept never really took off until it was applied to an LED panel. Now programmers and designers have many different tools that take advantage of continuously rotating pan and tilt.

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Illustration by Andy Au

I’d Rather Have Cash

Checking e-mails: a few days after another successful corporate awards show. Okay, maybe there were a few minor goofs, but I’ve always been taught to just forget about those and move on. Don’t worry about stuff you can’t do anything about, right?

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EventCollab

EventCollab

EventCollab event project management software is designed to serve as one central place online (cloud-based) where everyone involved in an event — from the planner to the lighting designer, AV crew, staging company and others — can share documents, chat, have discussions, assign to-do tasks and track time. Permissions are easy, using circles, to help team members connect and get the job done. The software has integrated with Google apps, and the company will be integrating EventCollab with Salesforce and Office 365 soon.

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LD Joey Troup, with Vance Joy Tour.

LD Joey Troup, with Vance Joy Tour

TOUR dates: Jan. 12 to April 1 (U.S.); April 23-30 (Australia)

THE DESIGN: “Vance Joy is a dynamic pop act, but it’s also a very intimate one. At either end of the dynamic spectrum, his music lends itself to a warm blanket of incandescence. The next step was choosing instruments to provide punch and textures to accentuate larger moments without overriding the intimate, storyteller vibe intrinsic in the show. I’m also a drummer, and I’ve found my most valuable lighting tool to be timing. I look at it as playing drums with colors.”

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Lighting can't be prevented, but severe weather protocols should be followed to minimize risks.

When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors: Lightning Safety Planning

Lightning kills thousands of people across the globe every year.  Lightning also arrives with an audible alert system (thunder). Thunder is an immediate warning of dangerous conditions outside. If thunder is heard, anyone outside is in danger of being struck by lightning. It does not have to be raining for lightning to occur. In fact, many lightning fatalities occur when rain is not falling. Other threats, such as damaging winds, large hail, flash flooding, or even a tornado, also may be present. When lightning threatens, immediate action needs to occur to promote life safety. A good Lightning Safety Plan specifies the actions that will be taken.

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