Still Taking Nominations for Best New Lighting Product for 2010

There is still time for you to nominate the best Lighting Product of 2010!  All this week, you can nominate any new lighting related product that was introduced in 2010 for the iSquint.net 2010 Best Lighting Product of the year.

Each year you see a bunch of organizations put out their choice for the best lighting products of the year.  We here at iSquint handle it a little different.  You choose the nominations AND you vote on the products!

These products are designed for you and you are the only that uses them so you should be the one that decides which one stands out as the best product of the year. You have all of this week leading up to New Years Eve to nominate as many products as you like for the award.  All you have to do is visit the Nomination Post from last week and leave a comment with all of the products that you feel deserve this award.  Comments on this post have been turned off as to eliminate any confusion.

After all the nominations are in, I’ll condense the nominations into a poll for everyone to vote on. If you need help with all of the new products that were announced this year, review the products section on iSquint.  While most are there, there are some that might not be, so feel free to add them if you don’t see the product listed.

The RSC Lightlock Wins ESTA Rock Our World Award

When I read that title, it made me think a minute… Isn’t the Lightlock suppose to do the opposite, keep our world from rocking?  Stupid joke, sorry.  But honestly, Doesn’t the RSC Lightlock deserve almost every award out there?  How did a mover live front of house on a hung pipe with out this?  Those fellas at RSC are genius, thanks for the Lightlock and congrats guys! Here is more from the Press Release:

The annual ESTA Dinner and Awards Ceremony was the setting for the RSC Lightlock to receive its most recent accolades from entertainment industry leaders. Nominated in the best new product category for ESTA’s Rock Our World Awards, the RSC Lightlock was chosen as the product which had the greatest impact on our industry in the last year.

The RSC Lightlock is a motion stabilizing device for moving head lighting fixtures, allowing them to be installed with a minimum of rigging equipment, removing the need for battens or trusses in the system. Its stabilization also allows the RSC Lightlock to be used with pantographs and motorized battens without the inherent movement caused by the moving head fixtures.

In its third year, this Rock Our Worlds program has no real rules. The panel of judges, some of the best known people in our industry, has sole discretion on the number of awards to bestow and the categories to use. This year’s judges included Seth Jackson, Tom McPhillips, Bill Sapsis, Brad Schiller, and Jim Tetlow. This group saw fit to select the RSC Lightlock from a group of nominees which included products and projects such as the RevEAL LED Color Wash, the Dee and Charles Theatre build, the chandelier install at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, and the Shanghai Expo Opening Ceremony. To be named one of the winners for this year’s award demonstrates how revolutionary the RSC Lightlock truly is.

Learn more about the RSC Lightlock by visiting their website at www.rsclightlock.com or the US distributor, Total Structures website at www.totalstructures.com.

Coemar Introduces Reflection FullSpectrum LED Fixture

Winning the 2010 PLASA Award for Innovation, Coemar released their latest product, the Reflection Full Spectrum LED Fixture.

The Reflection is a revolutionary (patents pending) static LED fixture that brings an entirely new concept to this field of lighting: a compact, interchangeable, and modular light source – just like a lamp in conventional fixtures – that creates unmatched intensity by directing light from a unique combination of LEDs onto a parabolic reflector. This design also eliminates problems such as RGB dots and multi-coloured shadows which have plagued many other designs, delivering a unique, uniformly-coloured light beam. By moving the light source in relation to the reflector, this beam can also be zoomed smoothly via DMX from 10° to 17° (1/2 peak angle), 16° to 25° (1/10 peak angle).

Heading to LDI, make sure to stop by the Coemar stand to learn more about the Reflection FullSpectrum as well as some new fixtures that Coemar is planning on announcing at the show. Till then head over to www.coemar.com to learn more about the Reflection.

Nominations & Voting Are Up for the 2010 Parnelli Awards

Fire up your browser of choice, nominations for the 2010 Parnelli Awards are now being accepted for companies across our industry.  A Parnelli Award is one of the most prestigious in our industry because it is a jury of our peers that decides who receives this honor.

Nominations are submitted by you and then voted upon a jury of our peers as the deserving of the award.  The nominations are broken into six categories, Visual, Sound, Video, Production Services, Production Personnel and Production Transportation and Logistics.  From there they awards are broken down by company and person of the year for each sub section.

Six nominations will be selected from each category and then put up for a vote by you! Watch FOH and PLSN magazines about when the voting will begin.  For now, get your nominations in at the Parnelli Awards website.

While you are on the Parnelli Awards website, be sure to vote for your Hometown Hero in both Lighting & Sound.  Both categories are broken down in to regions of the States.

On October 22nd, the Parnelli Awards will take place at The Rio in Las Vegas Nevada.  Yes, that is during LDI! You can reserve your seat for the Parnelli Awards Dinner right on the Parnelli Awards website, www.parnelliawards.com.

The Parnelli Awards are named after Mr. Rick “Parnelli” O’Brien for his talent as a production manager and tour manager.  He was a well respected colleague, admired professional and friend to many industry veterans. Rick passed away from cancer in late 2000.

The 2009 Most Innovative Lighting Product Picked By You

A couple of weeks before 2009 ended, I put a poll up to let the lighting industry choose the Most Innovative Lighting Product introduced in 2009. Most times when it comes to determining these types of awards or credits, there are a couple of people in the back room picking out the nominee’s and then the winner. My goal was to change that.

I asked you, the lighting community at large to weight in and see which product you thought was the most innovative lighting product of 2009. And boy did you guy respond! With over 250 entries in and 10 product to choose from, there was a clear front runner from the beginning.

While I only listed 10 products, I mentioned that if you felt there was a product that deserved to be nominated to please list it in the comments section.  There were only a couple of products added and some really neat ones that I didn’t even know about which I’ll get to later.

With out further ado, the winner of the 2009 Most Innovative Lighting Product chosen by you is…

The RSC LightLock

Congratulations to RSC and Total Structures, the US distributor of the LightLock. Not only did the RSC LightLock win the 2009 Most Innovative Lighting Product of the year, but also the Best Debuting Product Award in the Rigging and Staging category at LDI 2009. On top of that, when the RSC LightLock was first shown at the 2008 PLASA Show in a prototype form, the RSC LightLock won the only PLASA Gold Award that year.

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 News Years Day, I will be announcing the lighting industry choice for the most innovative product for 2009 right here on iSquint. The Poll is open to any and all lighting professionals and closes on December 31st at 11:59pm, one minute before the ball drops in Time Square.

Take a second and submit your entry now on the poll below.  If you think there is a product that I am missing that deserves to be on the list, please leave it in the comment section on this article.  If you want to vote for something that is only in the comment section, leave a +1 with the product name in the comment.

Thanks everyone!

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You Pick the Most Innovative Lighting Product for 2009

During 2009, we saw a whole heap of new products introduced into the market place.  Just like Time and the AP innovative people of the year, it is time for the industry to pick the most innovative product for 2009. So I am calling on you to help choose the 2009 Innovative Lighting Product of the year.  While I would love to pick the product, that just is not fair.  Who am I to say what is the most innovative product? That is why I am leaving it to you.

The instructions are easy.  I have picked 10 random products that have come to the market place in no particular order.  All you have to do is chose one.  Think I am missing a product or want to give some insight on your choice?  Leave it in the comment section of this article.

The winner of the 2009 Most Innovative Product chosen by you, will be announced here on iSquint December 31, 2009 at 11:59pm, right as we start the countdown and raise our glasses to 2010.

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ESTA Rock Our World Awards Open for Nominations

Have you seen a new product that you knew would change the industry, or one that was so simple but so brilliant you couldn’t imagine why it hadn’t been done before? Have you seen a product used in a way that was truly remarkable in its application, whether simple or complex? Have you seen a project that knocked your socks off because of the level of collaboration required or the magic it created? Now is your chance to acknowledge their impact.

ESTA created the Rock Our World Awards to honor groundbreaking achievement by its members. Don’t wait until a quantum technology leap becomes a standard to celebrate it. This award was created to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of technology and the designer or integrator who applies the technology in a real world environment.

Who Can Enter?

Anyone in the industry may nominate a product, product application, or project, but an ESTA Member must be involved as the designer, manufacturer, supplier, or collaborator.

To learn more about the ESTA Rock Our World Awards Nomination Guidelines, visit the ESTA website at www.esta.org.

2008 PLASA Innovation Award Winners Announced

Today, September 15. 2008, The 2008 PLASA Innovation Award Winners were announced. Over 65 new and innovating products were put up for nomination and were showcased at the Innovation Gallery at the PLASA show in London.

Chosen by a panel of independent judges drawn from across the industry, seven Silver Awards were presented by PLASA Chairman Rob Lingfield to:

• Goboland for their Black Steel Gobo.
• Neutrik for their convertCON.
• Display LED Screens for their digiFLEX.
• Clay Paky for their Alpha Beam 300.
• JB-lighting Lichtanlagentechnik for their VaryLED A7 Zoom.
• Eilon Engineering for their Ron StageMaster.
• Global Design Solutions for their MOBAL 19 Pin Pro tester.

We congratulate all the winners of the Silver Award for Innovation at the PLASA 2008 Show.  For a full listing of products nominated for the Innovation Awards, Click Here.