I would like to initiate “Bring A Promoter to LDI Day.” Choose your favorite, technically challenged promoter/ budget-creation specialist/ accountant; present them with a two-day accommodations/flight/per diem trip to Las Vegas for the LDI show, and take them on a personal tour of the show floor to explain the reason why we passionately specify a different kind of spot fixture that is not 10-15 years old, or why there is a substantial difference between the RGB LED party lights that one of their venues has as its “technically sufficient” lighting rig and why it doesn’t exactly match up with your requirements for eight Robe Robin 600s…By giving these special guests an up-close-and-personal experience with all the quality equipment that the industry has to offer, as well as the chance to speak with the engineers that conceive a more efficient light for us, the education could be a small, but influential, moment in our industry.
—Martin Thomas, from “LD-at-Large,” PLSN, March 2016
