Tips & Tricks

“Apple Boxes” are wooden crates of varying sizes with holes on each end, used chiefly in film. They are used for anything that needs to… Read More »Nook’s Tidbits: The Apple Box

A cyclorama is a large curtain or wall, often concave, positioned along the upstage edge of a theater. Normally white or very light in color,… Read More »Nook’s Tidbits: The Cyclorama

LD Jeffrey W. Pardee notes that “radio shows,” such as the REAL 92.3 “Real Show” at the L.A. Forum, should be optimally lit for the… Read More »Lighting Radio Shows…For the Camera

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) annual re:Invent Conference, staged in Las Vegas the last week of November, was big enough to require the use of multiple… Read More »Building a Bridge – Literally – for a Corporate Event

Here’s the Readers Digest version of Brad Schiller’s Jan. 2018 “Feeding the Machines” column, with tips for how to have a happy 2018: 1. Save… Read More »2018: 12 Months, 15 Tips

Q: (From Chris Lose, LD-at-Large): Is there a preferred way of addressing the problem of counterfeit consoles? A: (From Ryan Kanarek, ACT Lighting Inc.): “The… Read More »Keeping the Pirates At Bay

For the current Broadway production of M. Butterfly, instead of taking the grander scenic approach that the original production of M. Butterfly did for its… Read More »Sliding Scenic Panels for ‘M. Butterfly’

Ash Nehru, one of the founders of d3 Technologies – which officially changed its name in November 2017 to Disguise – is considered by many… Read More »Ash Nehru on What’s Next: Bridging the Silos

In an era where top tours feature jaw-dropping LED video and staging automation, there are still some artists touring with a classically theatrical nuance and… Read More »Lighting Artists with a Theatrical Flourish

Automated lighting consoles have many great programming and playback features that provide many useful functions. One of the more clever functions has to do with… Read More »Paging All Playbacks

For the Buffalo Sabres hockey team, Crossfade Design worked with Infinity Productions, who created the cool looking “Crossed Sabres” scenic element, which appears, along with… Read More »Remote Control for Buffalo Sabres Intro Visuals

How do you know if an LED product has the proper PWM specifications for your application? As a general rule of thumb, if the published… Read More »Avoiding Pulse Width Modulation Pitfalls