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Light Painting With Clay Paky at ACT Lighting

Written By: Justin Lang on March 22, 2011

I was recently invited to the ACT Lighting office in New Jersey to take a look at the Clay Paky line up of Fixtures. ACT Lighting recently became a distributor of Clay Paky in the United States and wanted to show off the line up of fixtures. The gents at ACT Lighting setup one of [...]

Review: BrickBlaster Pro RGBW LED Fixture

Written By: Justin Lang on January 26, 2011

I mentioned the BrickBlaster Pro LED fixture a couple of weeks after LDI this past year in Vegas. My late writing about the BrickBlaster Pro is a prime example of how large industry trade shows can be. I totally missed seeing The Black Tank company on the show floor. Lucky for me, a friend emailed [...]

Review: Interactive Technologies CueServer Express

Written By: Justin Lang on January 12, 2011

The different styles of lighting control available to us are staggering. It seems as though each manufacturer puts a twist on how we can manipulate lumens, as well as “barrow” things from each. One company that has separated themselves from the pack is Interactive Technologies. While most manufacturers offer a hardware interface to select and [...]

Review: Martin Professional Mac101 LED Moving Head

Written By: Justin Lang on January 5, 2011

At LDI 2010, the US Lighting Community was introduced to the Martin Mac101 LED Moving Light. If you walked past the Martin Professional booth on the half hour, your eyes were immediately drawn in by these little tiny moving lights stuck all over the martin booth dancing and color mixing to the music. Your eyes [...]

The Best Holiday Present – The DodoCase for the iPad

Written By: Justin Lang on December 27, 2010

I think I am still in recovery mode from this past weekend. Let’s just say it was a “festive” time! I have to write about one of the best presents I received this holiday season, the DodoCase for the iPad. I was actually expecting to get this, but I never give my hope up when [...]

Book Review: Intelligent Lighting: A Curriculum in Entertainment Technology

Written By: Justin Lang on December 20, 2010

A couple of weeks again I mentioned a new book out on the market named Intelligent Lighting: A Curriculum in Entertainment Technology. The author, Matthew Haber was kind enough to provide me with an evaluation copy to write a review of the book here on iSquint.net. I always like to start a review by what [...]

Review: Nooks Ultimate Punt Pages DVD

Written By: Justin Lang on November 30, 2010

A couple months before LDI this year, the Academy of Production Technology announced the arrival of their latest training tool, Nook’s Ultimate Punt Pages DVD. No, it is not a training DVD for football kickers on how to punt the ball correctly, that is just silly. Punting is the US term for running a lighting [...]

Review: Field Templates RULES! English Metric & Striplight Placemat Templates

Written By: Justin Lang on November 22, 2010

People say that the old world charms are losing out to technology in this day and age of computers and the internet. It is faster and easy these days to shoot off a quick email, text or tweet to a person to say thank you or convey a message. What use to be the standard [...]

Book Review: The Designs of Jules Fisher

Written By: Justin Lang on September 25, 2010

The history of lighting design is taught in almost every entry level theatre appreciation class at the college level in the states. It almost every textbook associated with that level of class gives a brief and limited lesson of the history of lighting design and the pioneers of the our field. It’s in these classes [...]

Review: Martin M1 Lighting Desk

Written By: Justin Lang on July 21, 2010

At ProLight + Sound this year, Martin Professional announced to the world their latest control product, the M1 Lighting Desk. Martin is boasting the M1 as the next generation of Lighting control in the lighting industry. With the form and function of the M1, it is pretty clear why they say that. The M1 is [...]

Revision of ACN Standards Up for Review

Written By: Justin Lang on July 20, 2010

All right, all you control freaks, (I mean that in a good way), get your thinking caps on. The ESTA Technical Standards Program just announced that the revisions of the ACN or Architecture for Control Networks protocol documents are up for public review. If you are smart and can understand the documents, ESTA is calling [...]

Review: Luminair for iPad

Written By: Justin Lang on July 13, 2010

When rumors of the Apple iPad started to become serious and it came to realization, everyone went crazy with excitement. One company in our industry, Synthe FX, also became excited about the idea of the iPad and started making big plans. Synthe FX is the developer of the “lighting desk in your pocket,” or Luminair, [...]

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