Greatest Stage on Earth: “Rule #1”

What is Lighting Rule #1?  Always light the talent. It doesn’t matter how flashy your show is if the talent is in the dark. What is Lighting Rule #2?  Rule […]

Benghiat Lighting Introduces Source Four Savvy Section for Vectorworks

Joshua Benghiat has been hard at work again developing his latest Vectorworks Plugin, Source Four Savvy Section. You may remember Joshua’s other Vectorwork plugin, Beam Draw 3. With Source Four […]

Madrix 2.9 LED Control Software Now Avilable and Ready to Ship

Back during ProLight + Sound 2010, I wrote about a new LED Lighting Software Package that was being announced, MADRIX 2.9.  Only three months after the announcement, MADRIX 2.9 is […]

New Trivia Contest In Town: TechnicalTrivia.com

Do you like testing your knowledge and winning stuff at the same time?  Think you know a lot about the technical side of our industry?  There is a new trivia […]

Fireworks, Oh So Much Fun and Dangerous too

Did everyone have a fun forth of July?  Blow up anything good?  I got to play a little bit, but NOTHING like the professionals. Besides, to light anything off like […]

Sunday YouTube Videos

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!! That’s right, it’s the fourth of July and time to celebrate Ameerica’s independence. I’m going to keep it short and sweet today as I am running out […]

Vectorworks & Lightwright 5 Webinar Video Now Available

Back on May 18th, I wrote about a Vectorworks Spotlight and Lightwright webinar about how to exchange data between the two applications. The webinar happened back on May 25, yes, […]

“Let there be light” Was Only the Beginning

In the beginning, God commanded “Let there be light” and it was good. Since then the history of light and lighting technology in the church has always been at the […]

Mega-Lite Announces Axis Tri-LED Moving Light

Mega Systems out of Texas recently announced the arrival of their latest product, the Axis Tri-LED moving head fixture.  The fixture packs in 90, 3 watt tri-color RGB LEDs in just 26 […]

Elation Announces New RGBAW LED Fixtures, Design Brick 70 & ELAR 180

Elation Professional shows no sign of letting up in producing and manufacturing affordable LED lights! Elation just announced the release of two new LED fixtures that use not just RGB, […]

Martin Updates Maxedia Media Server to v4.2

In 2009, Martin introduced Maxedia Broadcast on i7 hardware along with the new Maxedia 4 engine, delivering stunning performance and allowing up to 8 simultaneous video playbacks in Full High […]

West Side Systems Updates All Their iPhone Apps for iOS4

Looks like West Side Systems is leading the pack in the lighting apps with updating most of their iPhone apps for iOS4 and multitasking. So all of you iPhone and […]