SETC Comes To A Close

All good things must finialy come to an end. This past week at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), we saw and heard some pretty amazing things, not only on the show floor, but through out the conference.

To recap the week:

The rumor that Vari-Lite is poised to announce an LED moving light were confirmed by the poster ad prominently displayed in their booth.

Apollo is on the verge of releasing a clip light for use backstage with a gel ring.

Tomcat just announced the newest addition to their light duty 12×12 box truss, CORE.

SETC put out a new publication, Outside the Box, 25 Design-Tech Strategies Publication.

SETC is a great conference for young people from the high school level to grad students to find not only a summer career, but also a life long love of the industry. SETC is offers hundreds of ways for the younger theatre professional to network and meet industry professionals.

Next years conference is being held in Lexington, Kentucky. If you have a chance to make it, we promise it will be a great experience.

Thanks SETC for the memories!

Apollo Designs Demos Their New Clip Light

Apollo Design has put a new twist on the back stage clip light. It looks exactly like the clip light that you would pick up at your local hardware store, only Apollo has put their special touch to it.

Almost every theatre has at least one clip light backstage as a work light or cross over light with blue or purple gel gaff taped to it.  Apollo has simplified the process and has added metal ring to the front that clips to the reflector, thus removing the gaff tape mess from the clip light.

While this is a rather simple and easy product, it does what it is suppose to and makes putting out gel covered clip lights easy, quick and clean.

The retail price for the clip light is $19.95.  This included the clip light, metal gel ring.  Apollo has not confirmed that if any gels will ship with the fixture, but chances are that they will.  As with almost any fixture, lamps are sold separately.  The fixture is set to start shipping as early as may.

Apollo’s Design-A-Pattern Contest Announced

It is official, the 2nd Annual Apollo Design’s Design-A-Pattern contest is announced! Here is the basic information.

• Entries accepted February 12 through April 30, 2009
• Entrants must verify they are submitting ORIGINAL, non-copyright artwork
• Metal, B&W glass, gray Scale glass and colored glass submissions are accepted
• All qualified entries will be posted to Apollo’s website on May 4, 2009 until June 15, 2009
• Site visitors will vote for their favorite pattern.
• Top voted entries will be included in Apollo’s new patterns for 2010.

For more information on submitting your artwork and the guidelines of submission, visit Apollo Design’s website at www.apollodesign.net.

Good Luck!

Apollo Releases St. Patrick’s Day/Easter Gobos

The gobo masters at Apollo Design have released their 2009 gobo flier for St. Patrick’s Day and Easter in a three page PDF. There is a mix of both metal, black and white as well as color scenic (full color) gobos listed for each holiday.

For pricing and more information on Apollo’s Easter/St. Patrick’s Day gobos, contact your local Apollo Dealer. Download the St. Patrick’s Day/Easter Gobo Flyer here.

Apollo Design Introduces 6 New Gel Colors

The R&D department at Apollo Design are at it again. They recently announced the arrive of 6 new gel colors to their series 8 line up of gel. The new colors are

• Kablueie – 4630
• Yellow Snow – 6150
• Trick or treat – 7570
• Watermelon Wine – 8440
• Flamingo Pink – 8445
• Rebecca’s Pink Ribbon – 8710

We here at iSquint love the new colors, not just the names but also the wonderful colors that they produce. These colors will be added to Apollo Designs next gel book sample. To get an updated gel book, contact your local dealer.

Not to Apollo designs gel naming department, are you hiring? We have some fantastic names ready! We work on beer commission.

Apollo Design & High End Systems Patteren Agreement

In recent news, Apollo Design and High End Systems/Barco made an agreement on having Apollo Design to produce High End’s entire line of patterns.  To help relieve some of the older stock that High End still has on the shelves that were produced before the agreement, Apollo and High End are running a sale on the existing inventory at a HUGE saving with all sales being final with no returns allowed.

To view the patterns that are on the current special with the specific sizes, make sure to click the image to the left.  You must contact you Apollo sales rep for more details.