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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...
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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...
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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?...
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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...
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By Chris Lose I am well aware that you are more than capable of designing, operating, teching, programming and facilitating every single show that...
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by Michael Graham A Look at the Growing Complexity of Fixture Functions and Control Systems Over the years, the complexity of intelligent lighting fixtures...
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by Chris Lose While touring the world, I have spent far too many hours sitting at FOH, wondering who in the world designs some...
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By Brad Schiller Automated lighting consoles are extremely powerful tools with very complex software. No matter how many features a console provides, one of...
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By Chris Lose Having completed years as a house lighting designer and working at several festivals around the globe, I have become streamlined when...
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By Vickie Claiborne As media servers continue to develop features geared toward working with LED fixtures, lighting consoles are beginning to add in tools...
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By Chris Lose In science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s famed “Three Laws,” written in Profiles of the Future, a book-length collection of essays...
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By Brad Schiller The automated lighting industry has seen a new trend in lighting products over the last few years. We now have many...
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by Bob Ursdevenicz Memorandum To: All Lighting Designers From: Your local spotlight operator Re: Calling the spotlights at a large arena show Hi, I’m...
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By Chris Lose Whether “Tis Nobler” Is Not the Question. Here’s a Roundtable Discussion of When It’s the Answer. For some, timecode is the...
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Written by Chris Lose Your boss heard that you really love the theater and would appreciate some extra hours on show site, so he...
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By Chris Lose Q: What’s the difference between a Lighting Designer and a Lighting Director? A: About $20,000… As a touring lighting director, I...
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by Brad Schiller Typically, an automated lighting programmer is concerned only with programming the lighting elements. However, there are also often circumstances where we...
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Talking Photometry is a technical blog from Photometric & Optical Testing Services in the UK that helps you keep up to date with developments...
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By Brad Schiller For a very long time, lighting controllers have had faders as a key component of the front panel. This is because...
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Written by: Nook Schoenfeld So I’m rapping on the phone with my buddy Scott Plummer. He owns the finest little mom and pop lighting...
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by Andy Ciddor It’s pretty widely acknowledged that the once-adequate Colour Rendering Index (CRI – published in 1965) that told us about the colour...
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By Brad Schiller Making the perfect programmer requires a host of carefully selected ingredients mixed together. When this recipe is followed, the result is...
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By Brad Schiller Automated lighting consoles are very complex machines that provide amazing abilities to transition data values utilizing various timing controls. From a...
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By Brad Schiller Automated lighting consoles are full of features, many of which rarely get used. However there is one feature that is required...
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Written by Mike Mahoney I am blessed to work with some of the greatest scenic designers on the planet. They seem to have endless...
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Written by: Brad Schiller Automated lighting programmers are constantly using new equipment and setup configurations. It is very important for programmers to understand how...
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Written by: Jess Baker Whether you’re staring at the same walls deciding if you are going to leave that full time job to go...
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Written by: Brad Schiller Programming automated lighting requires much more than just pressing buttons on a console. A good understanding of the lighting fixtures...
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