You might be a lighting geek if you…
- Have ever spent the weekend at an RDM Plugfest.
- Read lighting magazines while you eat breakfast or sit on the toilet.
- Know how many DMX channels most lighting fixtures use.
- Have lighting manufacturer support contact numbers in your phone.
- Have posters about lighting products framed and hanging in your house.
- Have been to a strip club and paid attention to the lighting.
- Watch the Super Bowl only to see the lighting during the half time show.
- Take your kids to Sesame Street Live and they tell you what lights they see in the truss.
- Attend lighting tradeshows as a vacation.
- Watched a show you are not working from FOH or the booth.
- Purchase used lighting equipment as collector's items.
- Have submitted photos of your work to PLSN Showtime.
- Have a closet full of black swag T-shirts.
- Have volunteered your time to be on the lighting crew of a show without being paid.
- Have a shelf full of books about lighting.
- Picture in your mind how you would light any song you hear.
- Can carry on a discussion about lighting for more than an hour.
- Are given gifts for birthdays and holidays that relate directly to the lighting industry.
- All your friends are lighting geeks..
-Brad Schiller, from Feeding the Machines, PLSN, Oct. 2010
