In case you haven’t heard, one of our industry’s top rental, sales, and design houses, 4Wall Lighting, has come out with an excellent iPhone app to help you with putting together your next production package! You can also use their app to see what’s current out there, what’s best for your next show, what you […]
Great news from Chauvet — we’ve opened a West Coast branch in Sun Valley, CA! From the press release: Chauvet, a leading global supplier of entertainment lighting and trussing, announces the opening of a California-based branch office and satellite distribution center in September. Technical support, training and demo programs serving the US western region will […]
Now, for something completely amazing to kick off your weekend, check this image gallery out — this is the awesome work of light artist Simon Berger. His work is outstanding, let alone his work with long-exposure photography and light art. Hopefully this kicks your weekend off with a bang! Check out Simon Berger’s work!
During his recent North American tour, rapper, songwriter and record producer Pitbull ignited the audience with his high-energy performance not only rapping live, but also incorporating his famous duets with renowned artists like Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Mark Anthony and Chris Brown, who entered the stage via recorded tracks on massive video displays. Video Director […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Broken lights are a nightmare. Moving lights are more so because they are complex machines that seem to never break down in an easily accessible location. Unless you have a magic wand in your toolbox, you will encounter broken moving heads somewhere in your lighting life. […]
About 20 CHAUVET Professional fixtures lit the stage for various performances at a Jewish Center in Ciudad de Mexico. Lighting Designer Yonathan Mendelsberg of Lomas Eventos used 16 Q-Wash 560Z-LED wash lights and two Legend 300E Beam lights. More CHAUVET DJ SlimPAR Tri 12 IRC fixtures washed the stage in vivid colors.
CHAUVET Professional made a statement at the ENTECH 2013 trade show in Sydney, Australia, displaying bold fixtures with distributor Showtools. Our stand featured luminaires from the Ovation series of theatrical lights, COLORado line of wash lights, Nexus 4×4 pixel-mapping wash, Q-Spot 460-LED moving spot, Q-Wash 436Z-LED and more. Chauvet’s ILUMINARC brand of architectural and architainment […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I was flipping through the guide a few weeks ago and stumbled on a reality show that cannot possibly be staged. Reason being: it’s all about building stages. “On Tour: Tait Stages” gives a pretty realistic view of what goes on from planning a show all […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Building up anticipation is a powerful tool. You hear it in music with the lead up to a crescendo, you see it in a suspense movie, you read about it in great works of literature. But…you are supposed to also see it in lighting. I. Start […]
Czech Distributor AudioMaster recently organized a series of seminars aimed at training customers on various CHAUVET Professional fixtures, such as Nexus 4×4 pixel-mapping wash lights, Legend 412 moving yokes, WELL 2.0, Q-Spot 360-LED and Q-Spot 460-LED lights and more. Here a couple of photos from the training:
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Since my son was born 6 years ago, I have had a lot of experience with “some assembly required,” then having to show him how to use the thing that I just spent way too long building. Reading the manual helps a lot with situations like […]
My Journey in Lighting written by guest blogger Frank Danko [ED: Mr. Danko’s journey began at an early age and in an earlier blog post. Here the journey continues.] Theatre is everywhere. My passion for technical theatre continued through college where I studied theatre arts and worked freelance around New York. I ran lights and […]