Sunday YouTube Videos

Is it Sunday already? What happened to the weekend? Seems like it should be Saturday again. Since it is Sunday, it is time for another batch of Sunday YouTube Videos […]

High End Discontinues Repair Service of Wholehog 2 Consoles

Late in the week, I got a note from a good friend and industry insider about the High End Wholehog 2 desk.  It looks like High End has stopped supporting […]

Friday Flickr Lighting Porn – HoranLD

This weeks randomly selected Friday Flickr Lighting Porn comes from Flickr user HoranLD. The photo is from a show called Macabaret that went off in October of 2005 at the […]

JR Clancy on Facebook, Show Us Your Scariest Rigging Photos

In JR Clancy’s latest Rigging Report email, they are calling for photos. No, not photos of your beautiful self, but photos of scary rigging. We have all been then.  We […]

Coming Soon: Cygnus 100w Wash

There’s a new Cygnus in town.  Wybron is updating the line with the Cygnus 100W Wash.  If the production schedule holds true, they should be available late this year, but […]

Upcoming Release, Set Lighting Technician’s Handbook, Four Edition

Focal Press is preparing to release their latest book on lighting, Set Lighting Technician’s Handbook, Fourth Edition.  The title may throw you off a bit.  The book is actually geared […]

Books: Late & Great: American Designers 1960-2010

I am a huge history buff.  I just can’t get enough learning about our past!  ESPECIALLY when it comes to our industry. I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll say it […]

iPhone App: Color Kinetics LSM Remote

I am a little late to the table with this one.  Back in April, Philips Color Kinetics released a new iPhone app into the iTunes store, the LSM Remote.  The […]

DMX Switch iPhone App – Yeah Another One

Tell me if you have seen this before… A DMX switch calculator app for the iPhone/iPod Touch? Yup, there is another one out there. Honestly people, take a look at […]

USITT Announces Architectural & Theatre Students “Ideal Theatre” Design Competition

As a lighting professional and lover of the theatre, have you ever walked into a theatre and thought… “What the hell kind of design is this, who designed this place, […]

Rose Brand Introduces 25oz Wizard Velour – Magically Blacker

Are you not happy with your current stage drapes?  Are they just not black enough for you?  Rip them suckers down.  Rose Brand has introduced a new magically blacker velour […]

Greatest Stage on Earth: Color and Emotion

Color.  Nothing affects our mood and emotional response more.  It can make us angry that Brutus just betrayed Caesar, dream that Juliet is just beyond our reach, and swoon as […]