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How to Care for Your Stage Drapes – And When to Let Them Go

Bought to you by Theatre Safe Australia Whether you’re managing a school hall, professional venue, or performance space, your stage drapes play a bigger...

1st December, 2025

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How to Choose the Right Load Monitoring System for Venues: 7 Key Criteria

Bought to you by Theatre Safe Australia Once you recognise the importance of knowing what’s happening overhead in real time, the next question comes...

21st October, 2025

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ANALOGUE VS DIGITAL: DOES IT MATTER? AND IF SO, WHY?

When it comes to technology, there’s a question that surfaces time and time again: when is it appropriate to implement the next big thing?...

18th March, 2024

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Swapping diesel generators for solar-powered battery banks on live events

By Richard Cadena A stagehand was setting up for Willie Nelson’s line check on the first day of his Luck Reunion festival outside of...

22nd May, 2023

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Tech Topic: You Are Not Correct

By Chris Lose There have been few times in history where the political climate has been as divisive as it is right now. The...

4th December, 2018

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Review: Claypaky K-Eye K20 HCR

by Jim Hutchison he Magic of the K-Eye with a Color-Mixing Factor of Six Claypaky is the kind of company where they release an...

24th October, 2018

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The Joy and Pain of Macros

by Brad Schiller Automated lighting consoles and the software that drive them are truly amazing. They are taking in the commands of the programmer,...

28th September, 2018

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Tech Topic: The Perfect Position

by Brad Schiller One of an automated lighting programmer’s most important tasks is the creation of position palettes/presets. While some may see this as...

29th August, 2018

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Tech Topics: Why We Do What We Do

By Chris Lose The power of inclusivity is strong within the theater world. The tie-line that bonds us together cannot be broken by color,...

6th August, 2018

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Growing Glowing Relationships

by Chris Lose Relationships rely on loyalty, communication and constant effort. That is why I maintain an unwavering relationship with Benjamin Franklin. When I...

4th July, 2018

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The Genre Series: Architectural Installs

by Brad Schiller Continuing my series on different genres of automated lighting programming, this month I will focus on architectural installs. These can vary...

18th May, 2018

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Tech Topic: Just Wing It!

By Chris Lose Unorganized productions are the body of the chicken flailing around after the head has been chopped off. They are, pun intended,...

5th March, 2018

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Tech Topic: Paging All Playbacks

by Brad Schiller Automated lighting consoles have many great programming and playback features that provide many useful functions. One of the more clever functions...

21st December, 2017

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3D Pixel Mapping on a 2D Screen

by Vickie Claiborne As pixel mapping is becoming more and more commonplace in the lighting world, and LEDs are being incorporated into 3D configurations...

18th December, 2017

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Tech Topics: Pulse Width Modulation

by Mike Johnson As the world of lighting moves more and more into LED sources, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) has become the most common...

12th December, 2017

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Kung Fu Lighting

By Chris Lose A Tale of Lighting, Confusion and Pandas in the Land of the Red Dragon Lighting direction has taken me all over...

29th September, 2017

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Tech Topic: The Unmentionables

By Brad Schiller The set of skills one must master to work as an automated lighting programmer range from lighting knowledge to console syntax...

24th August, 2017

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Tech Topic: It’s Simply Data Entry

By Brad Schiller Automated lighting programmers must be very skilled at programming for various types of productions and designers. In most cases, there is...

24th July, 2017

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Tech Topic: Patching Prestidigitation

by Brad Schiller Anyone who wants to learn about automated lighting programming must study and master one very important task: Patching. Without this ability,...

1st May, 2017

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The Politics of Colour Selection

by Chris Lose I heard about a tragedy the other day. A designer lost a tour based solely on color selection. A particular band...

7th March, 2017

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Light Bytes 1st edition now on sale

Wayne Howell, CEO of Artistic Licence and inventor of Art-Net, is pleased to announce the publication of the 1st edition of his book “Light...

9th February, 2017

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The Not-So-Lonely Road

by Chris Lose Keeping the Lonesome Road from Dragging You Down On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha… No, I’m not going...

8th February, 2017

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Tech Topic: 15 Years of Change

by Brad Schiller December 2001 marked the first article I wrote for my “Feeding the Machines” column. As I write this article 15 years...

31st January, 2017
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