A preliminary review of the Lehigh Rendition console
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in Stage Lighting | No Comments »In my last post, I explained why I don't think the ETC Element is a good replacement for the ETC Express. When I was at LDI 2009, I ran across the Rendition series of consoles from Lehigh Lighting. Based ...
My article published in Technologies for Worship Magazine
Monday, December 14th, 2009 Posted in Stage Lighting | No Comments »Head over to Technologies for Worship Magazine and check out my recently-published article about backlighting. It's my first publication in print (outside of technical journals). I'm looking forward to writing more articles for a general audience!
First impression: ETC Element Console Review
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in Stage Lighting | No Comments »We recently got an ETC Element to replace an ETC Express 72/144 that had become unreliable due to a hardware problem. I'd like to point out that ETC equipment is generally very durable, but this particular console only lasted about ...
LDI 2009 Report
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 Posted in Stage Lighting | No Comments »I attended LDI (Live Design International) last Friday in Orlando, FL. This was my second time at the show (read my report from 2007). Overall, I'd say this year's show was scaled back from 2007, which is not surprising considering ...
Haze damages LCD projectors
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Stage Lighting | No Comments »We recently learned the hard way that the use of haze can lead to reliability problems for some LCD projectors. We have two rather large LCD projectors (don't know the specs offhand) permanently mounted to the ceiling, projecting onto the ...
The price of cheap Chauvet LED fixtures
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Stage Lighting | No Comments »In my previous post about cheap LED fixtures, I didn't mention our Chauvet Q-Wash intelligent moving light LED fixtures. We bought four at a very discounted price to supplement our conventional movers. They weren't bright enough to stand ...
Server move completed and general update
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Linux, Software development, Stage Lighting | 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 Stage 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 Stage 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 Stage 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 ...