Anthony Hamilton Gets Funky Onstage with the Q-Wash 560Z LED!
WOW! Have you seen Anthony Hamilton onstage lately?
Hump Day Funky – Jamiroquai Playing “If I Like It, I Do It”
Did you wake up this morning with the passion of a lion or that of a gazelle? There is a particularly great quote from Christopher McDougall that we love here at CHAUVET Professional:
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”
Today is no exception, get out there and own this day! We know you can do it!
Here’s a little something to get you going with a groove in your step and a jiggle in your wiggle — Jamiroquai playing If I Like It, I Do It. Enjoy, lighting industry! Happy Hump Day!
Friday Rock and Roll – Kula Shaker Playing “Great Hosanna”
Happy Friday, lighting industry!
Another weekend is upon us, this one being a special Memorial Day edition of the weekend — we hope that you’re either out there with friends and family or making plans for friends and family, or at least getting ready to rock sold-out crowds with the magic of light!
Algam Showcase Video with CHAUVET Professional is Absolutely Stellar!
Have you seen the photos we posted about the Algam Showcase that takes place in Nantes, France every year? CHAUVET Professional’s French distributor Algam puts on one heck of a show!
Live Design Excellence Awards 2014 Winners Using CHAUVET Professional Lighting!
Did you see the winners of this year’s 2014 Live Design Excellence Awards? Two of the winners of this year’s award used lots of CHAUVET Professional lighting fixtures to accomplish their award-winning designs. Major congratulations go to Blackout Design for Premier Tech’s 90th Anniversary event, and to the Solomon Group for their reno of The Civic Theatre for winning the award this year!
Let’s look at Blackout Design’s work for Premier Tech’s event:
In addition to their inventory, Blackout Design used 26 of CHAUVET Professional’s Legend moving heads to complete this design. From the article at Live Design regarding the award-winning event:
The moment had to be magical. For its 90th anniversary, Premier Tech wanted to build an event that will unify all their employees and partners. Something unique that would create a sense of pride and put forward the miding of Premier Tech. BlackOut Design has unveiled a structure which represent the image of collaboration and teamwork.
Check out the Blackout Design website, they have wonderful work! Also, here’s a video of the Premier Tech event from the Blackout Design website:
90 ANS DE PASSION from BlackOut design on Vimeo.
Also winning a Live Design Excellence 2014 award this year, The Solomon Group was awarded the prize for their excellent refit of the Civic Theatre in New Orleans, a place that is thought to be the oldest standing theatre in New Orleans.
From the article at Live Design:
The result? Though the conversion took just one year, event planners from all over were clamoring to use the Civic Theatre even before work was complete. Two months after opening, Comedy Central used the venue to tape live, one-hour stand-up specials for comedians Steve Rannazzisi, Neal Brennan and Chris D’Elia across three consecutive nights. In July 2013, the Civic hosted a corporate event for William Grant & Sons during Tales of the Cocktail, which BizBash calls one of the “Top 100 Events in the United States.” TED, the nonprofit known for “Ideas Worth Spreading,” chose the Civic to host its third-annual TEDYouth Conference. And NYC concert promoters The Bowery Presents partnered with the Civic Theatre to launch perhaps the most aggressive concert programming New Orleans has ever seen, featuring a 2013 fall lineup that included performances by Russell Brand, Black Crowes, Passion Pit and more.
Check out a few images of this excellent refit:
The Solomon Group used 40 of CHAUVET Professional’s COLORado 2 Zoom Tour LED wash fixtures in their design along with the rest of their inventory on the project. What a great looking venue!
This Week’s TOP TEN POSTS on the CHAUVET Professional Blog
Happy Friday, lighting industry! Another weekend is upon us, and whether you’re out there getting ready to rock a weekend show stop, heading into the airport to get to your next gig, or just sitting at home prepping for the summer’s work, we here at CHAUVET Professional salute you!
The Weekly Rig from CHAUVET Professional and Trusst – Digital Buddha!
It’s time for another installment of The Weekly Rig from CHAUVET Professional and Trusst trussing! This week’s rig is geared towards EDM and unconventional bands like The Black Keys and The White Stripes — meet Digital Buddha!
This week’s installment of The Weekly Rig brings a relatively new fixture to the forefront of design and maximum output — the bright, versatile, and punchy Nexus Affinity AW7x7 pixel-mapping panel! Nexus AW7x7 can be mounted in myriad configurations, what we’ve provided here for you is a mere scratch to what can be done with the Nexus AW7x7.
Also in this week’s Weekly Rig is the venerable Legend 330 SR Spot, the COLORdash Par Quad 7 for truss toning, the COLORado 2 Quad Zoom Tour for backlight blasts, and a FOH truss sporting the Legend 330 SR Spot for maximum audience enjoyment.
In addition to the CHAUVET Professional lighting fixtures, this week’s edition of The Weekly Rig features several excellent pieces of TRUSST trussing, including 1m sticks, 6-way cornerblocks, 3m truss arcs, and the versatile, strong, and easily configurable universal TV mount for adding displays and monitors to your design! A media server and some fun content, and you have some excellent dynamic graphics to go along with your rocking light show!
Stay tuned for next week’s rig where we incorporate circles, triangles, and squares of truss into a design! Check out our other episodes of The Weekly Rig as well, we hope you find something that rocks you!
Check Out CHAUVET Professional’s Lighting Insights Video Series!
We’re doing something fun and new here at CHAUVET Professional — reaching out into the industry with some guides and quick videos geared towards taking you outside of your comfort zone of lighting!
ROGUE Series Videos from PLSN TV!
From PLSN TV and editor Justin Lang, check out PLSN’s ROGUE series video reviews! Justin talks about the ROGUE R1 Spot, R1 Beam, R2 Spot, and R2 Beam in detail — check them out!
Atypical Fixture Parameter Effects!
CHAUVET Professional is back at it again with another installment of the popular Lighting Insights video newsletter — this month’s edition talks about non-pan and tilt parameters like zoom optics, frost, iris, and gobo wheels, and how to make awesome effects without moving the beams around!