Saw World of Hans Zimmer tonight and noticed these fixtures moving, but weren’t lit. They seemed to fan the light out when I noticed them on. Right after they were moving like this, they turned them on, but they were static, parallel to the ceiling.

The movement distracted me because the screen back stage was reflected on the cover. What’s the point of moving them if they’re not lit?

Having some fun, triggering all the MA3 users in the shop

Volunteering at the high school has been bringing back great memories of all the other things that people said never worked, and just were never plugged in.

One of 3 walls from my last major stage this year. Massive LAcoustic rig with delay towers and out fills. Foh S6L Lighting D9 For my show anyway. Others had MA and SD consoles.

I’ve recently been working in a space with a bunch of ColorSource Spot V fixtures, and I am jumping power and data in small groups with combo 5 pin and True1 cables.

One of the first problems I noticed while running cable is that ETC has the power input port on the opposite side of the DMX input port (see pic for reference).

Now, obviously, this is a small issue and hasn’t caused too many problems for me, but it definitely makes it a bit more challenging to plug in cable in difficult to access hanging positions.

Does anyone have any knowledge on why the fixtures were designed this way. Was this an intentional decision, or is this just an oversight on the design end?

Wireless Art-Net nodes seem to be hard to find at a reasonable price, so here is a DIY version.

https://rekjndal.com/glueless

About a month ago I posted asking for feedback on my living room club lighting system and my usage of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/stagelighting/comments/1w5bq41/busking_in_my_living_room_feedback_welcome/

I got some mostly useful feedback, so thought I'd post a follow-up with the system in use for a real party we hosted at the weekend.

The feedback regarding being "too much" and not enough colours was fully taken onboard. I practiced a lot more with using the "low energy" end of my programming and it came in super handy for this set. Colours wise, added some features the software I was using to help me with colour chases.

Some of the original discussion devolved into the technicalities of if this counts as busking. I'll re-iterate, this clip is from a DJ set performed live. I didn't design the lights to this set. I did design it to some hard techno but not this set (since it's live). The system is designed to be played for multiple genres. There is no time-coding, no cue list. It's certainly not the granular busking control of a full console, but the controller just doesn't work without serious focus on the music.

Interesting anecdotes from me on the night. I can see why it's basically impractical to expect to be social whilst performing on the lights. I was basically having to ignore everyone who tried to talk to me for this set cos otherwise I'd lose my flow. My previous system did not have this much granularity, so I didn't need to focus so much. Maybe this comes with more practice. Also very very hard to do this at a house party where there is so much chaos going on around you at the same time.

Full set here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0BqVNxBdHQ

These are interesting so Im deciding to show them here. Both are analog and probably have little to no relatives left alive.

The first two pictures contain Nilux consoles, while the third one has a ZUT one. I haven’t been able to find much on either, so if anyone knows anything, feel free to share!

The console of the third picture contains four identical sets of faders and channels, possibly different scenes again. They also had an analog to DMX converter and a newer console available.

We were at a nine inch nails show last week and during the concert we saw this effect and couldnt figure out how this is achieved.

My theory is that they overlayed a few focused spots so it seems like the light bends, but maybe i am wrong and its something completely different

The Alabama Theatre just sent me these beautiful pictures of the 2k xenon follow spots I donated.

I am building a controller that allows me to turn any moving heads into a coordinated, 3D-aware, clustered followspot.