Server move completed and general update
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Lighting, Linux, Software development | No Comments »The site is back online after a server move. Actually I can't blame the server move for the downtime, because I went out of town and then had a lot of catching up to do, and as a result I ...
Cheap LED fixtures
Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »Normally, we stay far away from anything marketed to DJ's, but we've been experimenting with cheap LED fixtures as an inexpensive way to put more colors on stage. LED fixtures have a few advantages: they efficiently produce light without much ...
Cool set design: Part II
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »Here's another cool set design. What's interesting about these two pictures is that the set is illuminated using the same lights at two different intensity levels, but the color seems different. That's a neat feature of incandescent lights--at low intensity ...
Cool set design: part 1
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »After a longer-than-expected holiday break, I'm back with a slightly different topic: set design and construction. Someone else designs and builds our sets, but I get to light them, and I'm usually tasked with documenting them. Our lighting ...
ChamSys MagicQ console review::part I
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »I don't know how to pronounce it, but I like it! This review is based on my impressions gathered from a few minutes of hands-on experience at LDI 2007, and the MagicQ PC software that I downloaded from ChamSys. I ...
LDI Report::Part 3::Midrange Lighting Control Consoles
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »My real mission at LDI was to review lighting consoles--management is considering replacing our Hog 1000 in the next year or so. The Hog is serving our needs well, but we've already used up both DMX outputs, and Hog programming ...
LDI Report::Part 2::Cool Products
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »These are a few interesting products that I saw at LDI. I spent most of my time at the show looking at and trying out various lighting control consoles. I didn't have time to prowl around the smaller booths where ...
LDI Report::Part 1::Eye Candy
Sunday, November 18th, 2007 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »LDI is where lighting designers go to dream. Companies spend big bucks to bring their products and show them off in the most spectacular fashion. Ironically, some of the less-reputable names have some of the largest booths. ...
Lighting design review: Mutemath in Orlando, FL
Friday, November 16th, 2007 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »I don't go to many concerts. I don't want to spend the money to hear a band play a poor version of their CD. But I heard from several people that Mutemath was a great live act, and it turns ...
Hog Programming: Cuelists vs. Palettes
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »I've always programmed the Hog 1000 lighting console using cue lists. Why? My prior lighting experience involved HogPC, which is essentially the same software running on a standard Windows PC. The HogPC software emulates the hardware of the Hog console ...
