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New Lighting iPhone App - iSquint
Do you like your iPhone/iPod Touch? Do you like to read iSquint? Well, to take a line from Apple Read more
Where is the Industry Heading – Edward Warren
This months interview for the continuing column, Where is the Industry Heading, I got a chance to talk with Edward Warren. Edward is a fellow lighting designer based in London, England and runs his own lighting design firm, Next Level Lights. You may know Ed from his twitter name, @edforever. Ed takes a a couple [...]
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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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Where is the Industry Heading: An Interview with Gregg Hillmar
This months column, Where is the Industry Heading is an interview with Gregg Hillmar. You may have heard my talking about Gregg recently with the release of his latest book, Light Plot Deconstructed, which is a tutorial guide for Vectorworks and developing a light plot with in the software. Gregg is also an accomplished lighting [...]
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iSquint Podcast: Episode 3 – Squintin’ at the grandMA2
In this, the third episode of the iSquint Podcast, I got a chance to sit down with Brian Dowd and Joe Cabera from ACT Lighting to talk about the grandMA2 lighting desk. Joe and Brian were kind enough to take time out of their very busy trade show duties to sit down and explain to [...]
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ConsoleCocktails Releases Cocktail #3 – Squintin’ at the grandMA2
During LDI 2009, I got a chance to visit one of the busiest rooms during the week long conference and show at the Orlando Convention Center, The grandMA2 Demo and Training room. I sat down and did an interview with Joe Joe Cabrera ][ and Brian Dowd from ACT Lighting for a future episode of [...]
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Where is the Industry Heading: An Interview with James Bedell
This month, I interviewed James Bedell, a lighting designer that got his start in the theatre world and has since found a wide variety of work in the architectural and corporate lighting markets. Not to long ago, James got involved in design high end residential, commercial and retails spaces all around the world. More recently, [...]
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Where is the Industry Heading: An Interview with Phil G. Gilbert Jr.
This month, we bring you our continuing column, Where is the Industry Heading with an interview from Phil G. Gilbert Jr. Phil is a lighting designer that is based out of New York City but travels the states designing lights for theatre, dance and corporate events. Phil took time out of his hectic schedule to [...]
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Where is the Industry Heading: An Interview with Cat West
In our continuing column, Where is the Industry Heading we sat down with Cat West. Cat toughs herself more of a console programmer rather then a designer but from time to time finds her herself designing lights in the fly. Cat has worked in the entertainment industry for over 10 years working as a wholehog [...]
Read More ...Where is the Industry Heading: Interview with Mark Wynn-Edwards
In this months column of Where is the Industry Heading, we bring you an interview with Mark Wynn-Edwards, a freelance lighting designer and console operator out of Hull, England. Mark has designed and/or ran lights for such clients as Rod Stewarts, Sum 41, Soilwork, Opeth and Jamie Cullum to name a few.
Mark was kind enough [...]
John McKernon Talks About Development of Lighwright 5
With the release of Lighwright 5 tomorrow, City Theatrical, the US distributor of the software sat down with John Mckernon to talk about the development of Lightwright 5. It is a pretty interesting read to see how Mr. McKernon developed the new software and what his future plans are for LW6!
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Where is the Industry Heading: Interview with Rob Sayer
In our continuing column, Where is the Industry Heading, we interviewed Rob Sayer, a lighting designer and production manager located in the United Kingdom. Rob brings years of real world experience from the live event, theatre and corporate event world. Rob has designed and operated lighting for theatre performances, music festivals and large corporate events [...]
Read More ...Where is the Industry Heading: Interview with Ken Billington
In Our continuing Column, “Where is the Industry Heading”, we bring you our latest interview with Broadway Lighting Designer Ken Billington of kbany.com. Mr. Billington has been designing lights on Broadway, The West End and around the world almost his entire life. He shares his wisdom with us about some of the latest technologies in [...]
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