For want of a better phrase, call it the sports-bar syndrome. Yep, every monitor on the wall looks a bit different, yet they're all showing the same game. The football gridiron's too yellow over there, and too red over here. And why is Terry Bradshaw so green?
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When the company that paved the road for the era of automated lighting and drove down the highway of that technology on cruise control for more than 25 years suddenly takes a left turn at the intersection of LED Boulevard and Automated Lighting Way, it's bound to turn some heads.
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Automated lighting consoles have several innovative functions to help the programmer, many of which have become commonplace. One of these is called "fan" or "align." In the simplest terms, this is a tool that mathematically spreads parameter values in even proportions.
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"Nice house. Would you like to see it with Ionic instead of Doric columns? No problem. Click." That conversation is not uncommon when architects or real estate developers and clients are working with scale models or 3-D animation. But imagine what it would be like when the scale was 1:1, no matter how big the building.
Read More »Over the holidays I reread The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. The last chapter is entitled "Sharpening the Saw," which is a reference to a story about a woodsman who is busy sawing down a tree. He's been at it for hours, and he's exhausted. Someone happens upon him and asks why he doesn't stop and sharpen his saw. "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," he says, "I'm too busy sawing!"
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I think the majority of us in the lighting business are not too sorry to see 2009 end. We all seemed to work a bit less last year. I ran into my buddy, John Featherstone, at a convention center last month and we spoke about the workload last year. "The thing that was key for me was that our company is so diversified in the types of projects we obtain," he said.
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PLSN marks its 10th Anniversary with the Feb. 2010 issue. In that time, production companies have morphed, but the crew lists and gear lists haven't… Read More »Projection, Lights & Staging News Turns 10
Read More »How has the live event production industry changed over the last ten years?
For starters, it now has PLSN.
Ten years ago this month, PLSN launched its very first issue of its now familiar 11-inch-by-17-inch tabloid-formatted industry news magazine.
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And now a word from Terry Lowe, the publisher of what you're reading – and how it did not exist 10 years and one month ago. "Many of our competitors tried to spin it that we were just a flash in the pan, but 10 years later we're still cranking out the magazine and continuing to be important to those in the lighting and staging industry."
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As ranked by Billboard Magazine, based on revenue.
1: U2
Lighting Co: PRG
Crew
Show Director/Designer: Willie Williams
Production Architect/Designer: Mark Fisher/Stufish
Production Director: Jake Berry
Lighting Director: Ethan Weber
Systems Crew Chief: Craig Hancock
Video company: XL Video
Video Director: Stefaan Desmedt
The tour for Train has been rolling across America with lighting and video gear provided by LMG. Lighting designer Matt Mills and tour manager Thomas O'Keefe co-designed the rig, then handed it off to lighting director Shawn Seithel.
Read More »Every January, we all step up to the home plate of the New Year and get ready to take our swings at the wild pitches of life. Some of us dream of pointing to the center field fence like Babe Ruth and swatting one over. Me? I'm happy just to not strike out. I still remember the words of my little league coach, who used to tell me, "Just meet the ball. Just get on base."
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