CSL’s Next Webinar: Green is a Number
Creative Stage Lighting has announced their second webinar for 2012, Green is a number. The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 9th at 4:30pm EST. How do you measure the environmental impact of a light fixture? There are many ways to look at it, starting with the light output compared to the energy input. But [...]
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Breaking News: 4Wall Purchases Assets of TLS, Inc. & Announces Nashville Office
Thanks for 4Wall, I now have to get the windex out and clean my monitor off after spitting my coffee all over after hearing this news! Looks like 4Wall is expanding to 5 walls again with the latest bit of news out of Alabama. 4Wall is set to purchase the assets of TLS, Inc., (Theatrical [...]
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High End Systems Celebrates 10 Years in 2012
Were does the time go? It has already been 10 years since High End Systems stepped into the Digital Lighting Arena. Now don’t let this 10 year anniversary confuse you with when High End opened shop… that happened in the late 80′s! Just 10 short years ago, High End released to the market, a media [...]
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CSL Webinar: Emerging, Converging Technologies Is Online
Back on March 23rd, I joined Kevin Lorretto from Creative Stage Lighting on their first webinar of 2012, Emerging, Converging Technologies. After some time, travel and a little trade show in Long Beach… The webinar is up on YouTube thanks to CSL. CSL has an entire line up of webinars planned for 2012. When more [...]
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Winner of the 2012 Student Lighting Design Competition Is…
Have you been waiting with bated breath to hear the announcement of the 2012 Student Lighting Design Competition? We were scheduled to announce the winner of the SLDC was March 29th, the first day of USITT. Well, it turns out this year was harder to judge than we expected. There were just so many wonderful [...]
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ESTA Foundation Announces eSet App for iOS
The ēSET (Essential Skills for the Entertainment Technician) body of knowledge developed and vetted by industry professionals has now been released as an iOS app available for download in the iTunes store. The body of knowledge has been available on the ESTA Foundation site but ēSET committee member Dana Taylor thought it needed to be [...]
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Breaking News: President Obama Announces That US Will Convert to DC Power
In a early morning press conference this morning, President Obama announced that the United States will convert the national power grid from AC or Alternating Current to DC or Direct Current. “Talking with the industry experts and electrical engineers, we feel that converting to Direct Current is a viable solution for solving America’s power crisis” [...]
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More Details on Vectorworks Cloud Service
How does the old saying go… “Get your head out of the clouds”. Clearly the good folks at Nemetschek, (the makers of Vectorworks) said screw that! I couldn’t agree more with them. Living in the cloud is nice! What does it mean though? A few weeks ago, Nemestschek sent out a teaser video about their [...]
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#USITT2012 TweetUp TONIGHT @ 8pm
Do you have plans tonight? CANCEL THEM. The official 2012 USITT Tweetup is tonight! What better way to finish out the first day of the show. Sit back, relax and share a beverage along with stories and things you have seen through out the day. Clarification: NO, we do not sit around with our mobile [...]
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USITT 2012: Session on Creating a Digital Presence
Is anyone else excited that USITT happens later this week?!? USITT has to be one of my favorite shows. Why, it’s all about education and students! USITT is the perfect place to get a good look at what is going on in the industry and get a bit of education while you’re at it. All [...]
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New AV Nation Podcast – Live Life, Episode One
This past week, I was invited on to the first episode of one of AV Nation’s latest podcast, The Live Life. Don’t let the title throw you, Too Many Mikes. We talked about Media Servers and projection technologies for the entertainment industry. The title came from having three Mikes on the podcast. We joked around [...]
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Join CSL and iSquint & PLSN Editor, Justin Lang for a Webinar
Creative Stage Lighting is kicking off their 2012 Webinar season with a our very own Editor, Justin Lang! On Thursday, March 22nd and 3pm EST, CSL will be hosting a webinar on Emerging, Converging Technologies in Entertainment. CSl Sales Director, Kevin Loretto will be hosting the webinar with guest Justin Lang. The Webinar is FREE. [...]
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