For British band Mumford & Sons’ Wilder Mind tour, lighting and production designer Ed Warren used Robe BMFLs, Martin VDO Sceptron 10s and MAC Quantum… Read More »“Halo64s” Jazz Up the PAR Can for Mumford & Sons
While planning for Shania Twain’s 2015 “Rock This Country” tour, it would have been easier to simply borrow from the production design elements that worked… Read More »Shaking it Up for Shania
I talk to a lot of promoter reps, and they explain that the lack of advance info just kills them at times. There’s a lot… Read More »Advancing the Gig (and Rig)
A light, often a bare bulb, is still left downstage center on the stage of theatres so the venue is never completely dark. This is… Read More »The Ghost Light
What makes for a successful and productive team? This year’s Parnelli Visionary Award winner, David Cunningham, might be able to provide some insight, according to… Read More »Theatre Ensemble as a Template for Teamwork
If only there were a small, single rack-space unit that could monitor four, eight, even 16 feeds…mmmmm… The MultiView 16 from Blackmagic design does just… Read More »One Rack Mount, 16 Layers – Not Just a Fantasy
InfoComm 2015 was fairly typical. Walking up one aisle and down another, we had the usual mega LED walls, mega 4K monitors, flame-thrower projectors and… Read More »Drones Could Open New Opportunities for Video Professionals
At Vulcan Gas Company, which revives a classic Austin, TX nightspot’s name, but delivers a new vision for the space, Wes Lane, lead designer and… Read More »Eliciting an Emotional Response
Automated lighting programmers are responsible for much more than just entering values into a console. We are usually also called upon to be a part… Read More »A Little Prep Work
Have you ever noticed that the top programmers in our industry are not those that just started programming in the last few years? When building… Read More »The Recipe for Programming Perfection Takes Time
Four years ago, I started working with a famous artist. I was only a few months into being his LD, a position that was more… Read More »The Importance of Knowing Who’s Who
The name Leko is a contraction of the original manufacturer’s names, Joseph Levy and Edward F. Kook, founders of Century Lighting, which formed in 1929,… Read More »Nook’s Tidbits: The People Behind the Leko