Colorful Character Creates Rainbows Down Under
After conquering Broadway, The Boy From Oz has returned to Australia in a new production of the original musical, especially designed for the arena stage. Hugh Jackman has recreated his Tony Award-winning role as Peter Allen in a nationwide tour for the production and its star.
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One nice thing about writing a product spotlight is all the cool toys we get to play with. The Sharp XGMB67X is one such cool toy. Especially since I had a number of movies to catch up on.
The XG-MB67X is a “compact” projector that packs all the features that you would expect to find on larger models. While certain accommodations have been made for its small footprint, Sharp does not compromise on its performance. It does all this while staying at a very competitive price point.
Read More »An important part in the convergence of lighting and video is the evolution of DMX-controlled lighting projectors. Have you used one, yet? With the increasing use of media servers on productions, many designers not only want to control the video content from a lighting desk, but they also want to have control over how and where that image is being projected. This is where digital lighting fixtures like High End Systems’ DL1 and DL2, as well as the new Robe DigitalSpot 5000DT, step up to the plate.
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Very frequently, I am touting the highest high-tech lighting products on the market. This month, I would like to fully embrace the lowest low-tech lighting control device I have ever seen. The Hula Skirt is such a simple, yet cool and useful, device that I cannot believe no one has devised one before now.
Read More »It’s a fair question: Do two doublestacked 5K projectors equal the brightness of one 10K projector?
The issue, it seems, has been a hot topic among projection designers, but lately it has become more prominent since the proliferation of projection, double stacking and edge blending software. Last June, when High End Systems debuted their Collage Generator, which combines up to eight DL.2 digital projectors and creates one large edge-blended image, the question became even more complicated. What is the equivalent brightness of four edgeblended 5K projectors?
Read More »Many media servers feature a control channel for Media Play Speed. How does this feature affect your content? Have you ever used it? Well, if you have, you will very quickly know whether or not that media server uses frame interpolation, also called frame blending or video smoothing.
Read More »A Price-Driven Landscape Shapes the Relationships Btewteen Manufacturer, Distributor, Dealer and User.
Money changes everything. Declining pricing for mainstream professional lighting products is accelerating a condition that has been part of the distribution channel for decades, one in which the once-distinct lines between manufacturer, distributor, retailer and end user become less clear as each one jockeys for best position.
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[In the last two columns, lighting designer Nook Schoenfeld and a posse of LDs including Bob Peterson, John Featherstone and Olivier Ilisca sat down for lunch to discuss how they got into the industry and what makes them successful. What we’ve learned so far is that, of the four designers, none of them were formally educated, but they all recognize the value of a good education. But when it comes to work, nothing can replace experience and handson training. And, if you really want to excel, there’s one more very impor tant ingredient. To find out what that is, read this, the last installment of the three-par t series, “Sushi in Chicago.”-ed.]
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Who:
Selecon Performance Lighting
What:
Design and manufacture of theatrical and entertainment lighting fixtures.
Where:
Auckland, New Zealand — HQ, R&D, manufacturing; Forest Hill, Maryland — sales, stocking and distribution; Enschede, The Netherlands — sales, stocking and distribution; with additional market support personnel located in the UK, Germany, Australia and Asia.
A couple of months ago, I came face to face with the realization that all I had known to be true about diffusion was little more than illusion. For several years I put those little square pieces of plastic in front of my luminaires to magically transform the subject by changing the quality of the light. But by sheer accident I found it wasn’t changing it as much as I thought.
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Working for UVLD, Cameron Yeary has the opportunity to work with some great minds in our lighting industry, including the company’s principal partners, John Ingram and Greg Cohen.
But as the resident visualist, he brings something special to the team. In our PLSN Interview, he explains the importance of previsualization, media servers and why better results are a function of how much control we have of the production.
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Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a classic children’s book that was adapted into an animated television program, and in recent years has also become a hit movie with Jim Carrey and a popular musical theatre production in San Diego for eight years running. Now Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical is tantalizing Broadway in its first limited holiday run.
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