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Don Holder, LD for the Broadway play, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, says he has learned that whenever he deals with moving parts and scenery… Read More »Affixing Lighting to Moving Scenery

Erich Friend, owner of the Texas-based Teqniqal Systems, a Fort Worth, TX-based consulting firm specializing in performing arts technology and safety, makes a case for… Read More »Safety Signage Can Overcome Language Barriers

I truly believe that the success of most gigs is not about the actual quality of all the gear you are using, but the quality… Read More »Gear vs. Techs

Just as you would park your car to leave it in a location for a while, you might park the parameters of a light to… Read More »Learning to Park

I just got back from taking a cruise. I didn’t go for a relaxing vacation, mind you, I went to work. There’s a new trend… Read More »Cruise Ship Lighting Rigs Less than Ship-Shape

There’s no question that 3D projection is solidly entrenched in the digital cinema world. In our own staging realm, for both live and corporate events,… Read More »3D on Stage

Hideaki Tsutsui, a professor of lighting design at the University of Texas/El Paso, decided to find out what would it be like to stage a… Read More »All-LED Theatrical Lighting: Not Easy, but Possible

Last year, for John Mayer’s Battle Studies tour stop at Hershey Park Stadium in Hershey, PA, Chaos Visual Productions provided a complex 50-by-20-foot LED video… Read More »The Need for Specialized Insurance Coverage

John Lyons: The two-edged sword that is nightclub design is that there are no real rules. By their very nature, nightclubs and their lighting need… Read More »How Nightclubs Differ from Other Design Projects

Automated Lighting Programmers must be aware of many concepts when programming a show.  One of the most important concepts with any automated lighting console is… Read More »Tracking and State

“I start every project no differently than if I were lighting a show. It’s important to receive the necessary documents like the resolution of the… Read More »The Starting Point for Video Content

The human eye (more accurately, the human brain) creates patterns. Add the evolution of the eye to see the full visible spectrum as white, and… Read More »Adjusting for Missing Color Syndrome