AvoLites PLASA 2010 AvoLife After Party

How super upset am I that I am not going to PLASA this year?!  The latest email from Avolites put me over the top.  Now I am super jealous of everyone going to PLASA 2010.  Avolites just announced/invited everyone to the blow out party on Monday, September 13th.  The Avo Afterparty 2010 sounds like it is going to be a blast! It will be held at Fabric, London from 8pm to late.  I like that the end time is “late”, possibility of not ending??? ;)

If you want to attend the Avo Afterparty, be sure to stop by the Avo stand at PLASA, 1-F18, BEFORE the party begins, to get on the list and fast tracked into the party.  Who likes standing in line any ways?! Think it might not be worth the trip?  Check out past PLASA Avolite parties, now I really wish I could make it!

PLASA09: RSC LightLock

Looking ahead towards the PLASA Show next week at Earls Court in London England, We have a preview of what the Royal Shakespeare Company has been working on, the RSC LightLock.

Imagine this, you need to hang a moving light in a place where there is no pipe or truss hung.  In comes the RSC LightLock, a free floating rig to suspend a moving light from that counter acts the pan of said moving light. Until now, it has been next to impossible to hang a moving light from a lightweight automated bar or truss and not have the entire rig swing or swag due to movement of the moving light.

Each RSC LightLock unit is equipped with on board sensors to constantly monitor the units movement as well as servos to counteract and generate sufficient inertia to eliminate un-wanted movement.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is better known for it’s interpretations of works by William Shakespeare, The head of lighting at RSC, Vince Herbert found a need for such a device and developed the LightLock for use in the recently renovation of the RSC’s lighting system.

More information about the RSC’s LightLock is still a little hard to come by.  We are expecting more information to be released at the PLASA Show next week at Earls Court.  Check out the video of the RSC LightLock in action in a YouTube video hosted by Patrick Stweart.

UPDATE: Rob from onstagelighting.co.uk informed us that the RSC LightLock was actually introduced LAST year at PLASA. From the RSC’s press release, they are planning on re-introducing it at PLASA again this year. So everyone forget what you heard about it last year as this year’s introduction will be much better!  But as Rob points out, “it is a solution looking for a problem“.