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Free Floor Pass To LDI

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The LDI Show is sneaking up on us!  There are only 160 days until the show opens up at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando Florida on November 16, 2009.  Be sure to sign up now for your FREE floor pass, (a $70 dollar value), to attend the show and to see all the latest and greatest in lighting gear and services.

Visit the Registration site to get your FREE floor pass.

There are some limitations though, you must be 16 to attend the show, and the free floor pass does not get you into LDInstitute, Backstage Orlando or the Educational Conference Sessions.

USITT09 Photo Gallery Updated

Leprecon LPC-48VClose of another day of setup, meetings, and catching up with friends at USITT in Cincinnati.  Only one more day till USITT Stage Expo opens at 9:30am.  Things are shaping up and looking good on the show floor.  We have only a few photos to add to the USITT Photo Gallery today.

Be sure to keep checking the gallery though out the conference and stage expo as we will be adding more and more images through out the week.

Creative Stage Lighting Named NA Distributor

In a couple of Press Releases today, Creative Stage Lighting has been named the North American Distributor for Compulite and JB-Lighting.  This comes on the dawn of USITT in Cincinnati this week.

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Compulite products, including the Vector series of lighting consoles, will be available to Creative Stage Lighting’s Dealer Network.

Vector Consoles are designed for use in theatre, opera and ballet, television, concert touring, theme parks, clubs, exhibitions, and industrial shows. Featuring dual processors, Vector consoles provide a rich GUI with high performance and stability. The Vector line provides fast, flexible and intuitive programming for mega shows or smaller environments. The Vectors have a long and impressive track record. The upcoming Vector 3.16 version offers new features and enhancements offering more productivity, stability and capacity.

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Creative Stage Lighting will offer the JB-lighting product line to North America, including the JB LED line of LED fixtures, Varycolor Wash fixtures, VaryScan Moving Heads, and Licon lighting consoles.

JB Lighting recently received a PLASA Innovation Award for its JBLED A7 fixture at the 2008 PLASA tradeshow. The JBLED A7 features a smooth zooming and movement system and 108 LEDs packed tightly to provide even mixing and a wide range of colors.

Both Compulite’s Vector Blue console and JB-Lighting products will be shown at Creative Stage Lighting’s booth, #865 at USITT 2009. For more information on Compulite, visit their website at www.compulite.com. For more infomation on JB-Lighting website at www.jblighting.com. To find a dealer or pricing on either compulite, JB-Lighting or any other product Creative Stage Lighting Distributes, visit their website at www.creativestagelighting.com.

Won’t Be St. Patrick’s Day Without a Leprecon

leprecon_lpc_consoleWhat kind of St. Patrick’s Day would it be without a leprecon making an appearance? Leprecon Lighting is set to announce an new line of lighting console at USITT this week in Cincinnati called the LPC-48V.  The new series of consoles is aimed at systems that run mainly conventionals and LEDs with fader handles.

The new LPC-48V offers 200 control channels spread over 2 universes of DMX with keypad and touchscreen capabilities giving the user a variety of programing options and styles. The console has the ability to operate as a single scene 48 channel or in a two scene 24 channel preset console mode. The console is also equipped with 20 pages of 24 submasters giving even greater control. Another feature finding it way in to recent consoles is individual programmable looks or “Quick Looks”, according to Leprecon.  This is ideal for staff members or volunteers needing lights on stage from a pre-programmed look with out the fuss of recalling individual lights from the keypad or individual channels.  The LCP-48V offers six “quick Looks” to meet those needs.

If you are attending USITT this week, make sure to stop by the Leprecon booth, #475 to see the LPC-48V in person.  For those not attending the show, visit Leprecon’s website at www.leprecon.com to learn more about the new series of consoles.

USITT Starts Next Week – We Have You Covered

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Next week brings another trade show and conference, United State Institute for Technical Theatre (USITT) Conference and Stage Expo in Cincinnati Ohio at the Duke Energy Convention Center. iSquint.net will be covering the Stage Expo’s floor live everyday for our readers.

For those attending the Conference and stage Expo, we have put together help listing of work shops, sessions and points of interest to check out on the stage Expo floor.

Registration

Online registration has been closed through the USITT website.  You can still register on site the day of the show.  Registration opens each morning at 9:30am.

Sessions

There are a few different ways to view the sessions that you would like to attend.

Booths to Visit

  • Altman Lighting # 1063
    • Make sure to check out the 100 watt Spectra-Cyc
  • City Theatrical # 1300
  • Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) #1100
  • GoboMan #243
    • Large Gobo selection, great prices, stop by and check them out.
  • Lex Products Corp. #275
    • New 19-pin Live end tester
  • SeaChanger by Ocean Optics #1225
    • Nemo Plasma fixture, Color Bug meter
  • Selecon #650
    • The SPD and a rumored new fixture
  • TMB #342
    • MOBAL tester

There are many more manufacturers and vendors to see while at the stage expo.  You the complete list Alphabetically or view it sequentially.  Make sure to download a copy of the show floor to map out your plan of attack. iSquint will be covering the show daily with product updates and announcements as they happen.

One question: How do you pronounce the acronym USITT? We’re just curious.

  • U-S-I-T-T
  • U-SIT

SETC Comes To A Close

thanks_SETC.jpgAll good things must finialy come to an end. This past week at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), we saw and heard some pretty amazing things, not only on the show floor, but through out the conference.

To recap the week:

The rumor that Vari-Lite is poised to announce an LED moving light were confirmed by the poster ad prominently displayed in their booth.

Apollo is on the verge of releasing a clip light for use backstage with a gel ring.

Tomcat just announced the newest addition to their light duty 12×12 box truss, CORE.

SETC put out a new publication, Outside the Box, 25 Design-Tech Strategies Publication.

SETC is a great conference for young people from the high school level to grad students to find not only a summer career, but also a life long love of the industry. SETC is offers hundreds of ways for the younger theatre professional to network and meet industry professionals.

Next years conference is being held in Lexington, Kentucky. If you have a chance to make it, we promise it will be a great experience.

Thanks SETC for the memories!

Outside the Box, 25 Design-Tech Strategies Publication

outside_the_box_bookWhile walking the show floor here at SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference), we noticed that SETC had a booth selling shirts to help support the organization and the endowment. While contemplating which shirt to purchase to help support SETC, we noticed a publication that SETC put together called Outside The Box: 25 Design-Tech Strategies to Save You Time and Money.

The book is the first in the SETC Field Guide Series which is a collection of new articles and previously published columns from the popular “Outside the Box: Design-Tech Solutions” column in  Southern Theatre Magazine.  Both the book and the column, which was originated by Carl Lefko, (Currently the President of USITT), and later edited by Chistopher D. Zink and Stuart Beaman, feature innovative and cost-saving solutions to design-tech problems.

Some of the guides in the book include:

  • 3-D Bricks
  • Foliage or Trees
  • Pop-Up Room
  • Moulding
  • Trash to Treasure
  • Onstage Pool
  • Curved Staircase
  • Star Drops with LED’s
  • Creating Custom Gobo’s
  • and our favorite, Creating Snow

The book’s forward is written by Tony-Award winning Costume Designer William Ivey Long.

“An invaluable tool for all craftspeople in the theatre. . . . It is my hope that OUTSIDE THE BOX will become a standard for every theatre student and professional, and I look forward to future editions of this book.”

At the time of this writing, it is near the end of the second day of SETC in Birmingham Alabama.  If you are still attending SETC on Saturday, stop by the registration desk or the SETC booth to purchase your copy of OutSide The Box.  For those that are not in attendance, you can still purchase your copy through SETC’s website at www.setc.org.  The book sells only through SETC for $18.

Rumor CONFIRMED: Vari-Lite VLX LED Moving Light

vari_ligte_vlx_poster_isqWhile visiting the Vari-Lite booth here at SETC, we noticed an interesting banner in the booth.  Vari-lite has a blown up ad of their new VLX LED moving light that we hinted about a month ago.  Out contact says that this ad will be running in the March issue of Live Design.

What is interesting is the verbiage on the bottom.  It mentions that,

the VLX is equipped with 630 watts of LED’s yielding 3 times the lumen efficiency of equivalent tungsten sources.  It’s revolutionary modular design provides for easy swap out  of optical and mechanical components.  VLX has a removable zoom system giving users the freedom to configure the luminarie with a fixed focal length of 22 degrees or a variable 3:1 zoom.  The VLX produces perfect color mixing without any distracting color shadows.  The luminarie has an extensive color gambit that offers designers color choices not previously possible with other conventional subtractive or additive systems.  The color temperature is variable and can be seamlessly adjusted between 3200k and 6000k.  Color shifts and strobing are stunningly quick.

We were not able to find our when the VLX may start shipping, but it was hinted at sometime this summer. We were not able to find out much more then what the poster said, but well keep after it for more information.

SETC Starts Tomorrow

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Tomorrow starts the Southeaster Theatre Conference in Birmingham, AL.  iSquint is on location covering daily events on the trade show floor, meeting and workshops bringing you the latest news with in the lighting industry.  We have already started to talk to some of the manufacturers exhibiting at the show and they have some great new products to announce.

Be sure to check in with us through out the day to see what is on the tradeshow floor.

New ETC Console at USITT CONFIRMED

We recieved a message from the lions outh today. ETC, as expected, is getting ready to launch the long rumored new lighting console to take place of the ever loved express console. The message from ETC outlines the going on’s with ETC at USITT in March.

Premiering at USITT: New ETC lighting-control console…. Be the first to see the newest console in the award-winning Eos® family. Going back to lighting-control basics but with cutting-edge innovation, this board is designed for modest rigs with conventional lights and a need for more hands-on control. All the fundamentals are here: channel faders, submasters, cue lists, and effects, plus control of devices like motorized accessories for conventional lights, LEDs and small numbers of moving lights. Ideal for smaller venues – like schools with single board ops and volunteer staffs.

Also in the same email, ETC mentions indroducing the Selador Series LED’s by ETC as well at USITT

Introducing Selador™ Series LEDs by ETC! ETC waited to get into LEDs until LEDs could be real stage lights, offering a color quality and light output that would blend with the gel colors of professional lighting rigs. Energy-saving and beautiful, the Selador Series’ x7 Color System™ fixture lines Paletta™, Lustr™ and Vivid™ offer cool and warm hues, saturated colors, bright white light, and natural-looking light for skin tones. Score one of our USITT-exclusive ETC Selador T-shirts – some of our coolest tees yet – at the ETC booth as long as quantities last.

Some of the other things that ETC will be offering at USITT are ‘Portfolio Workspace’:

Portfolio Workspace’ at ETC Connect Lounge.… USITT is a critical networking opportunity for students and educators. As a free resource this year we’re sponsoring our ETC Portfolio Workspace to help individuals make last-minute adjustments to their portfolios and résumés. Located in the ETC Connect lounge [Duke 252 room], the Portfolio Workspace will offer extensive office supplies as well as portfolio advising, all free.

ETC will also have their annual USITT Student Session:

ETC’s annual USITT Student Session.… Remind students about our special Student Session at the ETC booth, #1100, close of show, 5:00pm, Friday, March 20th, 2009. Students meet ETC people, ask questions, and rack up ETC swag. They’ll also have the chance to win one of three professional portfolio cases. To attend, they just have to stop by the ETC booth or ETC Connect Lounge ahead of time to get a VIP Student Pass, which will allow them to remain on the USITT show floor after show hours. Also, tell them they should pick up an application for an ETC LDI 2009 Student Sponsorship anytime at the ETC booth!

Rumor Mill: ETC RFU, Meet iPhone

etc_iphone_rfuWe are not going to say much about this one as we don’t know much of anything about it!  From our spy station located in Madsion WI, we heard over our hidden mic network deep within the walls of ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls) the mention of RFU (Remote Focus Unit) and iPhone in that same sentence.

Now we admit, the spy mics that we picked up from radio shack SUCK and we need to replace them, but the final word that we picked up on this whole conversation was USITT.  So, lets do some speculation here.  RFU+iPhone=perfect combination right?  Let’s think about this a moment.  In order for the iPhone to communicate with the console, it will have to be connected via WiFi or wireless networking… They only console that can do that are the Eos, Ion, and Congo and not the Express, Expression, Insight or the SmartFade series.

So, one step closer, Etc is might be releasing a RFU app for the Eos/Ion/Congo in the near future as early as the USITT Stage Expo in March. My questions are, will the iPhone/iPod touch app be free?!  And will it be small enough in size that it can be downloaded on the fly over the 3G network if needed.  I ask the last question only because some larger applications… ok fine.. GAMES that I have tried to download over 3G say that I can not and have to be connected to a WiFi access point.

No one back in Middleton is saying a thing, I guess mums the word back in the cheese state. We here at iSquint will upgrade of spy mics and possiably some cams too!  ETC still offeres free tours of the factory right?

ETC Offers VIP Pass Codes for USITT & NAB

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The good folks over at Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) have sent us a note about some of the up coming trades that they will be attending. ETC passed along VIP Pass Codes for the USITT (United States Institute for Technical Theatre) and the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) shows.

USITT take place in Cincinnati Ohio from March 18-21. To receive your FREE VIP Pass Code to attend the Stage Expo at USITT, make sure to visit this link. To learn more about USITT and the Stage Expo, visit the USITT shows website at www.usitt.org.

The NAB show takes place in Las Vegas Nevada from April 18-23. To register for your FREE floor pass to visit ETC’s booth, C8628, visit this link. To learn more about the NAB show, visit their website at www.nabshow.com.

If you plan to attend either show and use the FREE floor passes ETC has offered, make sure to visit their booths on the show floor and tell them iSquint sent you!

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