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An older blog found

So here's an older blog I found recently that I wanted to post while I'm working on a new one for you all. I should have it up soon. Thanks!

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OK this next blog starts here sitting in a hotel here in Richmond, Va. Currently I’m on tour with Porter Batiste Stoltz some of the damn funkiest musicians to come out of New Orleans, LA. Beginning where I left off on the last blog I had a lot of downtime once I got off the last tour so I did some local shows with good friends Damn Right, Basshound, and Earthtone, worked on my Porter Batiste Stoltz cues I needed to have ready for this current tour, start looking for some new pieces of gear to incorporate into the show, go over some repairs and obtain accessories I needed for this trip. 

 

lots of toys to play with

So I get this call from Upstaging Lighting last week. They want to do a demo of their vast array of equipment to their clients during the Christmas time. They have asked me to put together a system that shows off the latest lighting and video toys they own.
 

lots of toys to play with

So I get this call from Upstaging Lighting last week. They want to do a demo of their vast array of equipment to their clients during the Christmas time. They have asked me to put together a system that shows off the latest lighting and video toys they own.
 

football luck

Well this has absolutely nothing to do with lights, it has to do with this win streak I've seemed to acquire over the last 30 years. It seems that whatever town/state I move to, their NFL team becomes a winner.

Brooks & Dunn

PLSN Talks to B&D Lighting Designer/ Director Larry Boster

“The video content was produced by Marcia Kapuspin and Marcus Lyall. Both are very creative and artistic. Media Visions Entertainment was the video company. They have been with the Brooks & Dunn family for just about as many years as I have.”

“Bandit Lites is the lighting company and have been the entire time I’ve been on board with Brooks & Dunn. As a matter of fact, Mike Golden and Michael Strickland handed me this account. Thanks guys!” 

 

SHOW DISTRIBUTION’s Robert (Bob) Belanger

Who: Robert “Bob” Belanger, vice president sales & rental, Show Distribution Group Inc.

What: Sales and rentals of the ChainMaster variable- and fixed-speed hoists, as well as Prolyte roof, truss and stage systems.

Where: Leon-Harmel, Quebec, Canada

When: Founded in 1999.

A Brief History of Time(code)

I know you’ve seen the numbers, those little incrementing digits that appear on the video screen now and then — sometimes by accident, some-times on purpose. You’ve also run across them on many types of professional gear, including editing systems, videotape recorders, media servers, audio boards and even lighting consoles.

A Really Big Shew

Ed Sullivan’s famous catch phrase takes on a new level of import as the theatrical performance industry reaches for ever-more-complex produc-tions. Just loading in the paraphernalia for the new show Fuerzabruta at the Daryl Roth Theater in New York in October, it looked as though it would require the services of more than a couple of tractor trailers proceeded by cars announcing, “Wide load coming through.” It took a 45-man crew 15 hours to bring in a 20-foot flying curtain and an oversized treadmill, in addition to a 45-foot, clear-bottom swimming pool that, secured to the ceiling, would hover above the audience. 

The Power of UPS

(No, we’re not talking about shipping.)

Scenario A: It’s 3:00 a.m. You’re in the middle of an all-night programming session, and your console seems to be freaking out every few minutes. You, in turn, are freaking out too.

Scenario B: It’s ten in the morning. You’re thirty minutes into a corporate event, and you suddenly lose control of your rig. Someone eventually notices that the DMX optical isolator at dimmer beach is dead. You feel like you might lose control of your bowels.

Scenario C: It’s 8:00 p.m. The headline act of your outdoor festival has just launched into its first song. The lighting system seems to dim momentarily, and then your board suddenly reboots. You feel like your heart has rebooted as well.

Any one of these problems probably could have been prevented with a piece of equipment called a UPS (or Uninterruptible Power Supply). The primary intent of a UPS is to provide constant — or uninterrupted — power to an electrically powered device. It’s basically a battery pack for your sensitive electronics.

Martin Maxedia

[Few people are as qualified to write a product review about media servers as Vickie Claiborne. She has been a freelance programmer for a long time, and she has worked on many high-profile productions. In the interest of full disclosure, we should mention that she does conduct training seminars on the Maxedia for Martin. – ed.]

The Martin Maxedia is a powerful DMX512-controllable media server capable of handling a wide variety of digital media, including still images, video clips, 3D graphics, text, audio and more. The flexibility of the Maxedia’s digital video signal means that it will output to most types of display devices, including LED walls and digital projectors. 

 

CLAY PAKY Alpha Profile 1200

With the introduction of the Alpha line several years ago, Clay Paky began an earnest push to reinvigorate its fixture offerings. Combined with an overhauled U.S.-based sales and support team, it has resulted in renewed brand awareness in North America and around the world. The newest addition to the Alpha line, the Alpha Profile 1200 moving yoke fixture is a direct answer to the framing shutter systems incorporated into the massively popular VL3500 Spot and MAC 2000 Performance fixtures.

Read on to see how the Alpha Profile 1200 stacks up.