2009, A Year In Review
Congratulations! You made it through 2009! What a hellava year huh? As the world prepares for the Ball to drop of 2010, I want to step back and take a look at how far iSquint and the lighting industry has come in just one year. With iSquint, there have been some major changes, upgrades and [...]
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iSquint Podcast: Episode 3 – Squintin’ at the grandMA2
In this, the third episode of the iSquint Podcast, I got a chance to sit down with Brian Dowd and Joe Cabera from ACT Lighting to talk about the grandMA2 lighting desk. Joe and Brian were kind enough to take time out of their very busy trade show duties to sit down and explain to [...]
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4Wall Accquires BSL Productions
I received a note from a good freind over at Baltimore Stage Lighting Productions, (BSL) about their latest bit of news. BSL was just recently acquired by 4Wall, a nationally known production and lighting supplier. On January 4th, BSL will officially change from BSL to 4Wall-DC. More from the Press Release: In a move uniting [...]
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Tuesday Twitter Trivia – The Whistling Winner
This weeks Tuesday Twitter Trivia question takes me back to college. I learned alot back then, some to do with other things then theatre, but mainly theatre and lighting. I have always been fascinated by some of the superstitions that we theatre folk come to live by such as this weeks question: Why are we [...]
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Tuesday Twitter Trivia – Whistling on Stage
I hope that everyone had a lovely holiday thus far. It was totally relaxing for myself! As for presents… Let’s just say I was a good boy this year! More about the presents later and on to this weeks Tuesday Twitter Trivia. I am going Old School here and have a great question about theatre [...]
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
It’s December 25th, have you woken up yet and opened your presents? If not, get crackin! I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone. It has been one heck of a year and it’s almost over. I am going to keep this short as this is time to spend with family and friends. So [...]
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Published in this Months Issue of PLSN
During LDI this year, I had one heck of a crazy schedule with meetings, lunches, dinners, parties, product demos and of course walking the show floor for two days straight. One of the highlights of my trip was sitting down and having a lovely dinner and chat with the Editor of PLSN, (Projection Lights & [...]
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Still Time For You to Pick the Most Innovative Lighting Product for 2009
There still is time for you to to take part in the Survey to find the most innovative lighting product introduce in 2009. As of right now, there is clearly a front run as you can tell from the bar graph to the left. But don’t let that stop you from submitting your entry. On [...]
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Tuesday Twitter Trivia – DMX Address Count
As I missed last weeks Tuesday Twitter Trivia due to just plan forgetting about it, I thought I would come back with an easy question this week. Well, rather then it being a trivia question, it is more like a quest. A quest to find the answer. We all know that moving lights and multi-parted [...]
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Spotrack Presents Stage Performer Tracking System
Have you ever tried to follow a performer or actor on stage with a moving light instead of a followspot? Yes, it can be done. Is it easy, maybe. But what if you were trying to follow someone that was moving around that stage fairly quick, like say Steven Tyler? Not the easiest thing to [...]
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New iPhone App & Service from Zinman Software: Genielux
I just heard from Zinman Software, you know the iPhone App Developer that brought us ML Finder, Portfolio and other wonderful lighting apps, that they have just released another app. Rather then bore you with my wittiness, here it is straight from the press release: Genielux is a new breed of search. A smarter, quicker, [...]
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Review: Shurtape P-661 Glow Gaff Tape
Not to long ago, I noticed an interesting tweet from @ProAdv or better known as Production Advantage, about Shurtapes latest product, P-661 Glowing Gaff Tape. Not long after my re-tweeting, I get an offer from ProAdv about doing a review of the Glowing Gaff Tape. Production Advantage was kind enough to send me a 1″ [...]
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