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Happy Earth Day! – What We Can Do to Help Today

HAPPY EARTH DAY! It’s that time of year where we look at how we can save our home, planet Earth. I have always thought of Earth Day as a day where I do my part of the day by Reducing, Reusing and Recycling for the day.  But as I have grown up over the years, [...]

Support Behind The Scenes – #ByDesignDay2010

This Saturday is a very important Saturday, it is the ESTA Foundations By Design Day.  Why is it so important? It is a day where professional designers have committed to donating their royalties for the day to ESTA Foundations, Behind the Scenes. Top lighting designers around the world have already committed their royalties to help [...]

Special Offer on A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting Book

More SETC fun and excitement!  Steve Shelley was ablaze in his lime green shirt and hat while at SETC, (Southeast Theatre Conference), informing students and educators the benefits of his Field Templates and Soft Symbols drafting library’s. While on the show floor, Mr. Shelley was happily signing copies of his latest book, A Practical Guide [...]

iSquint Podcast: Episode 7 – Finding Your Next Lighting Desk

It is that time of year, the trade show season is about to begin.  Visitors from around the country and around the world visit trade shows to see some of the latest products and services available to our beloved industry. One of the most talked about and sometimes confusing product to compare is lighting control [...]

Bandit Lites Strives for 80% Green by December 2011

Here is an interesting story from Bandit Lites in Nashville. With the huge kick to “Go Green”, Bandit Lites has taken it one step further. While most companies are working on ways to develop and manufacturer low energy usage lighting fixtures, Bandit Lites is re-thinking their entire operation, starting with the logo.  To help show [...]

FREE Month Long Registration for PLASA 2010

Everyone likes free stuff right?  Well, if you are on the fence about attending the PLASA show at Earls Court in London England in September, PLASA has some good news. At the beginning of January 2010, PLASA is offering FREE registration to gain access to the show floor.  All you have to do is register [...]

ETC Support and Training – Pick Your Flavor

In life, we are always on the hunt for tips, tricks and deeper understanding of the world we live in. This holds true for lighting desk and how we operate them. Some of us may have a strong hold on how a particular board works and operates while others may not. Then there are times [...]

Attention Rental Houses – Zinman Software Announce Genielux

I wrote about Zinman Software’s latest app Genielux, a couple of weeks ago but it requires another look. I am specifically calling on Rental Houses, Production Companies, hire houses or any one that rents or sells lighting, sound video, rigging and special effects equipment.  Take a look at Genielux, not only can it help us, [...]

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 [...]

LEDs + Snow = Lighting Goodness

If you didn’t already know, the International headquarters and base of operations for iSquint is in Washington, DC.  Starting Friday night, the Washington DC metro area was under a blizzard snow warning and expecting one of the heaviest snow falls in recent history.  And boy, did we get it!  At 6am Saturday morning, there was [...]

Tuesday Twitter Trivia – Lamp Life

Welcome to another Tuesday Twitter Trivia Question.  This week I am back on lamps.  Their is a lot of buzz in the industry right now about energy efficiency with LEDs.  Ad to that the economical situation that the United States is in, everyone is looking ways to save money. Purchasing almost any type of LED [...]

iSquint Holiday Gift Guide for the Theatre Geek

Can you feel that?  It’s the gift giving season! There are always great gift giving guides for loved ones, kids, add all kinds of other people in our lives.  But what about the techie in all of us? There are a bunch of cool tools and toys out there for the techie and designer in [...]