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Last Chance to Order Behind the Scenes Holiday Cards

Written By: Justin Lang on August 23, 2010

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 [...]

Long Reach Long Riders Complete 7th Ride For Charity

Written By: Justin Lang on August 8, 2010

Each Time I read or hear about the Long Reach Long Riders, I want to buy a bike. Not just because it would be awesome to do some of these rides, but also to contribute to a worth while cause while still having some fun. Of course you don’t NEED a bike to contribute, but [...]

ESTA Summer Edition of Protocol Journal is Out

Written By: Justin Lang on July 24, 2010

Are you a technology freak like me? I love technology in our industry. It seems that every time you turn around, something new and exciting is happening in our industry that can make our lives easier and give us control and design options never though of before. The ESTA Journal, Protocol is a great resource [...]

Tis The Season Already! ESTA Announces 2010 Holiday Cards

Written By: Justin Lang on May 19, 2010

I think Lewis Black said it best in his album, Anticipation, Christmas seems to be getting closer and closer together. It feels like Christmas shopping starts on July 7th. And with ESTA’s latest news, Lewis might be on to something.
ESTA just announced the 2010 holiday cards to help support Behind the Scenes. This year there [...]

Support Behind The Scenes – #ByDesignDay2010

Written By: Justin Lang on April 19, 2010

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 [...]

Long Reach Long Riders (LRLR) to Hold Raffle at USITT

Written By: Justin Lang on February 23, 2010

The Long Reach Long Riders, the charitable motorcycle ride to help provide funds for the ESTA Foundation Behind the Scenes program has just announced their 2010 raffle at USITT. On April 2nd, 2010, The Long Reach Long Riders will be holding their annual raffle in the Behind the Scenes booth at the USITT Stage Expo [...]

ESTA Behind the Scenes Holiday Card Student Design Contest

Written By: Justin Lang on February 1, 2010

Behind The Scenes, an initiative of The ESTA Foundation, announces its first-ever holiday card student design contest, open to any lighting, set, video or costume full-time design student interested in creating an original design for a 2010 card.
The winner will be chosen by an all-star panel of previous holiday card designers including Bob Bonniol, Beowulf [...]

Long Reach Long Riders Saddle Up For 2010

Written By: Justin Lang on December 9, 2009

With this past summers ride down and gone in the east, the Long Reach Long Riders are planning their 6th annual ride on the west coast. I was sad to have to miss this years ride as it went straight through my back door. Here is a little more info from the 2009 ride on [...]

Lex Products Donates Portion of Proceeds to Behind the Scenes

Written By: Justin Lang on November 3, 2009

We love hearing news like this. Since last LDI, Lex Products has been donating portion of the first year’s sales of the 6 Circuit Live Tester to ESTA’s Behind the Scenes. Since that first year ends this LDI in Orlando, Lex has decided to extend this giving until the end of 2009.
This gives you two [...]

New Software: SpotTrack Followspot Cue Software

Written By: Justin Lang on October 15, 2009

Rob Halliday, the creator of the FocusTrack software has announced the release of a new tracking software package called SpotTrack.
SpotTrack is a new program for making and managing followspot cue sheets – something that has traditionally been done in Excel or Word using ad-hoc documents created from scratch as required. SpotTrack, by contrast, has been [...]

Long Reach Long Rides Meet and Exceed Goals

Written By: Justin Lang on August 12, 2009

The Long Reach Long Riders announce the successful completion of their 6th annual charity motorcycle ride. The 2009 ride raised over $42,000.00 for the ESTA Foundation’s Behind the Scenes program and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, making it the second largest amount raised to date. The combined LRLR total raised since the first ride in [...]

ETC iRFR iPhone App – Update

Written By: Justin Lang on March 20, 2009

We wrote yesterday about ETC demonstrating one of their latest products on the show floor of the USITT Stge Expo, the iPhone iRFR app. We were able to get a few more images of the iRFR in action as well as a bit more information. One of our readers, robinsta, talked with ETC reps in [...]