Although its name might suggest otherwise, not all eyes at the Vanity nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas are focused on the club's mirrored surfaces. Instead, the are drawn to a custom-made LED chandelier/sculpture made up of 20,000 LED points driven by a Martin Maxedia Compact media server.
So, there I am in my projector 101 class, and things are progressing quite nicely.
"Let's discuss the mechanics of focus and lens shift," says the esteemed professor. "No problem," says I … easy terms and concepts.
"Let's ponder the mysteries of color space," says the master of PowerPoint. "Gotcha," says I, as we dive deep into the CIE color space chart in all its beauty.
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Early in my career, I was working at a theatre as one of the house guys. We had a tour come in and use our space for pre-production. It was the first time I really got to watch a touring show prepare for the road. I remember sitting with the LD (I don't remember his name) and watching him program the conventional lights. He also had about six moving mirror fixtures with a dedicated controller. He explained an important principle that he tries to remember as often as possible.
"Rock ‘n' roll is like a circus today." -Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The Doors
Once upon a time, early in my career, I was at the top of my game. At the time, my game was a 16-foot ladder, and I working on a light that was rigged on a truss. As I was holding on to the truss for stability, I reached out and grabbed a second truss and that's when I got a shocking lesson in grounding and the potential differences between two metal structures.
One of the first places I found on the Internet to meet people was the lighting forums. I found a place called the Light Network years ago, and through this site I exchanged a lot of lighting questions and answers. While we chatted about light fixtures, media servers, various CAD programs, etc., we were making friends. This was the start of social networking through the World Wide Web.
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