Review: A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, Second Edition
Towards the end of 2009, Steve Shelley, noted lighting designer and drafting template guru, released the second edition to his book, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting (published by Focal Press). Soon after the release of Mr. Shelley’s book, Focal Press was kind enough to send me a copy of the book to review. Hands down [...]
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Where is the Industry Heading – An Interview with Steve Shelley
This months Where is the Industry Heading Column is an interview with noted Lighting Designer and drafting symbol guru, Steven Shelley. In addition to Mr. Shelley’s design talents and drafting template genius, he has also found time to write a book for the lighting industry, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting which just recently went [...]
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Light Plot Deconstructed Contest Part 2 on Jimonlight
iSquint and Jimonlight.com have been running a contest during the month of October in two parts for Gregg Hillmar’s latest book, Light Plot Deconstructed. The first part of the contest was held here on iSquint and the second part on jimonlight.com. Jimonlight’s part of the contest stops tomorrow, Friday October 30 at midnight. You still [...]
Read More ...Trivia Contest Over in Record Time
We ran a trivia contest last week to win a copy of Richard Cadena’s latest book, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician. The winning answer was posted in record time of 18 hours after the contest began. Tom Baldwin of Hampshire (UK) had the winning answer with a detailed explanation of why. The resistance [...]
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