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ETCP has changed the way the industry looks at rigging; the way the industry looks at safety; and the way the industry looks at training…ETCP… Read More »ETCP Certification, Training Raise the Bar

Lighting designer Hugh Vanstone uses what he describes as a conventional lighting setup for the Broadway production of Mary Stuart, but the results were powerful… Read More »The Compelling Simplicity of Mary Stuart

Even though most automated lighting fixtures have a strobe function, I very rarely use it, for several reasons.  First and most important, it can be… Read More »Using the Intensity Channel for Synchronized Strobing

Some of the fastest growing software developers in the lighting and media server markets today have developed an open network protocol called CITP/MSEX…The importance of… Read More »CITP is MSEXy

"Getting rid of the big video backdrop – willfully throwing away the most powerful visual tool you have – is brave and dangerous, but it… Read More »Solving the Problem of Video with Reverse Logic

Our 3G in the video industry is not their 3G in the cell phone industry. For the telecommunications market, 3G stands for the industry’s “third… Read More »OUR 3G is Not THEIR 3G

There are certain elements of a show file that you should never copy.  If you are the programmer for the opening act of a concert,… Read More »Copy That

For one of the biggest pep rallies in the world — a concert in Madison, Wisconsin featuring the UW band and its 72-year-old conductor Mike… Read More »Ken Ferencek’s Old-School Challenge

When asked what advice he would give an up and coming lighting designer, Rick Fisher, LD for Billy Elliot on Broadway, offers a practical response… Read More »Seeing the Show, Not the Lighting

In a pixel mapping application, the user creates a pixel “map” by placing “fixtures” from the software’s internal fixture profile library into the display area. … Read More »Pixel Mapping Software Basics

“You can’t be in touring and not know that people are not selling records these days,” Steve McCale of LMG says. What he set out… Read More »Revenue Streams for the Tours of Tomorrow

Many of today’s greatest spiritual teachers such as Ram Dass and Eckhart Tolle teach the principle of staying focused on the present moment… When running… Read More »Be Here Now