Section: Updates

Save 45% On A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting

Looks like Amazon and Barns and Noble are having a pricing war over Steve Shelly’s latest book, a Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, Second Edition.  Both online book stores are selling the book at 45% off the cover price of $49.95 at $27.25!
If you didn’t know, here is a little background on Mr. Shelly’s book [...]

Convert a MAC 2000 Wash into a MAC 2000 Beam Without Magic, Just a Conversion Kit

Martin Professional has now made it possible to easily convert two of the most advanced wash lights on the market – the Martin MAC 2000 Wash XB and MAC 2000 Wash – into a powerful beam fixture with an inexpensive conversion kit that installs in minutes.
Ideal for any large scale event where both beam and [...]

Last Chance to Order Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards

This is your last chance, you only have a couple of days left in August to order your Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards.  With the purchase of these cards you are doing to great things. 1, supporting our injured brothers and sisters in the industry and 2,showing your friends, relatives and colleague that you care [...]

Philips Color Kinetics ColorBlast TRX

Do you like the Color Kinetics ColorBlast?  Who doesn’t?  It’s small, portable, powerful and does uplighting beautifully. The ColorBlast just got better.  Color Kinetics introduced it’s latest version of the ColorBlast, the ColorBlast TRX.
The ColorBlast TRX adds two more colors to the fixture making it an RGBAW LED wash fixture. In addition to the Amber [...]

SD Breaks Prism Projections RevEAL CW TrueSource Announcement

Some hot hot news from Stage Directions Magazine, Prism Projection reveals, (yes, I know, bad pun), it RevEAL ColorWash TrueSource fixture!  If you didn’t know, Prism Projection makes solid state LED lighting fixtures for the Entertainment Lighting Industry.  They came on to the scene almost a year ago with the introduction of the RevEAL CW [...]

iSquint Profile Dead on Facebook, Revived as Fan Page

If you were a friend of iSquint on Facebook, you might have noticed that you lost a friend recently.  That is because iSquint has died on Facebook.  Not literally!  I just deactivated that account as a profile.  It just didn’t make sense.  I mean, how can a web site be a person?  That is what [...]

Lighting Design for Modern Houses of Worship Avilable on Apple iBook Store

Not to long ago, Richard Cadena’s book, Lighting Design for Modern Houses of Worship was released as a eBook through SmashWords.com.  While searching through the Apple iBooks store, I found that Mr. Cadena’s book has made it to the store!  Here is a little background on Lighting Design for Modern Houses of Worship.
Lighting Design for [...]

iPhone Lighting Handbook App Updated to v1.3

Start up the app store on your iPhone, there are some more lighting app updates.  Andrew Derrington just announced his latest update to his Lighting Handbook App, version 1.3. Not only did Andrew update the app for iOS4’s multitasking support, ha also added and update a huge list of items.
New Features:
• Increase in manufacturers to [...]

SeaChanger Improves the Tungsten SeaChanger Fixture

Fast speeds and more light output… YES PLEASE! SeaChanger just announced these updates to their tungsten color mixing fixture add-on to the ETC Source four.  Increased light output and fast color mixing, how can you go wrong?  Here is more from the official press release.
SeaChanger has improved upon its flagship product line, the SeaChanger Tungsten [...]

Gear Source/LED Source to Distribute Coemar State Side

Marcel Fairbairn, founder and president of Gear-Source, Inc. and GearSource.com, a leading connection for production and concert equipment, has inked an exclusive sales and marketing agreement with Coemar, a prestigious Italian manufacturer of automated lighting and LED products. GearSource will serve Coemar’s North American market utilizing its experienced automated lighting sales staff as [...]

MA Lighting Releases grandMA 2 Software Version 1.9.0.6 [6.5]

The gents in Germany are hard at work finalizing the series 2 software for the grandMA 2 series of desk.  MA Lighting just announced the release of version 1.9.0.6 [6.5] of the series 2 software. This means that they are getting closer and closer to releasing version 2.0 which should be the stable version of [...]

Vectorworks & Lightwright 5 Webinar Video Now Available

Back on May 18th, I wrote about a Vectorworks Spotlight and Lightwright webinar about how to exchange data between the two applications. The webinar happened back on May 25, yes, over a month away! Since I was at the Broadway Lighting Master Classes in New York, I was not able to get online [...]