THE WEEKEND IS HOURS FROM LANDING!
Just as a precursor to your soon-to-be-arriving weekend, have some excellent tunes to get your feet tapping, get your GO-pressing finger ready for your weekend shows!
We present an excellent cut of Dave Matthews Band from 1996 playing Two Step from their album Crash. Â Enjoy!
We LOVE seeing what you like to read on the Chauvet Professional Blog! it helps us put out better, more informed stories and information — keep it up!
Here’s what the Chauvet Professional Blog readership found to be the best posts from last week, September 15-21, 2013. Counting up from the most popular:
1. Cat West, Lighting Director for KASKADE, Rocks the Rig AND the Star Wars Dress!
2. Multitasking Color with COLORado 4 IP from Chauvet Professional!
3. LEGO Concert Kit? YES PLEASE!
4. Kaskade’s Atmosphere Tour Teaser, with Nexus 4X4 and Geyser RGB!
5. This Week on the Chauvet Professional Blog, Sept 16-20, 2013
6. TECH TALK September 2013: LOAD OUT!
7. BE CAREFUL of Falling Truss!
8. Our Favorite TECH TALK Articles from Mike Graham!
9. Stevie Ray Vaughan Plays Texas Flood on the Chauvet Professional Blog
10. CHAUVET Professional Supports Wakefield’s Backstage Academy with Q-Wash 560Z
Thanks for reading, everyone! Got a suggestion for a story? Email us!
CHAUVET Professional entertained with a great selection of luminaires at the sixth edition of Salon Algam in Nantes, Sept. 8-10. Our French distributor used an array of fixtures in the theater, including 18 Nexus 4×4, 16 Q-Wash 419Z, 12 Legend 230SR Beam, five Ovation E-190WW and four Q-Wash 560Z-LED.
What an amazing design by the distributor! Such stylistic color, aerial shape, and integrity!
Check out these gorgeous shots — Stephane Gressier is one great photog, am I right?!
Happy Thursday, lighting industry!
Sometimes you get out of bed, start your day, and just need that epic boost — that soundtrack to your day — that will vault your afternoon into a productive, happy place. Â Here’s something for that task: Â Umphrey’s McGee playing GLORY!
We’ve posted two great ones, a 2006 cut and a SummerCamp 2012 cut. Â Pick one, or enjoy both. Â That’s what we’re doing!
The yearly WFX conference and seminar is coming up next week in Dallas, Texas — are you going? We here at Chauvet Professional are going, and we have lots to show you and some great stuff to share! We’ll have a demo room set up in the C-level of the Dallas Convention Center featuring the Ovation LED series, Legend series, PVP S5 video panels, and the MVP Video System.
Chauvet Professional’s own Jim Hutchison (USA829, IESNA) will be on hand in the Hands-On-Training Lab to present a very useful seminar, Blending LED with Traditional Fixtures. Have you registered? Come meet Jim, come learn how to incorporate new, bright, cost-saving LED luminaires into your existing inventory. Save your congregation some money and give them the message they deserve!
Jim’s presenting the Blending LED with Traditional Fixtures seminar in the HOT Lab at these times:
Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 3:45pm – 4:45pm
Room C141
Registration Code: HOT15
Thursday, October 3, 2013, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Room C141
Registration Code: HOT32
Friday, October 4, 2013, 8:45am – 9:45am
Room C141
Registration Code: HOT50
We hope to see you there!
Congratulations are in order to lighting designer Oscar Dominguez of Darkfire Lighting Design and his lighting team for Season 3 of NBC’s The Voice for winning the 2013 Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series. Oscar’s team for The Voice is comprised of lighting director Daniel K Boland, lighting director Samuel Barker, and media server operator Craig Housenick. Major congratulations are in order for your beautiful work!
Oscar Dominguez has been using Chauvet Professional fixtures to create his stunning designs for The Voice since Season 1 of the show’s history, starting with the COLORdash Batten Tri and the COLORado 1 Tri Tour. Oscar and his team from Darkfire Lighting Design used COLORado and COLORdash to bring pure eclectic color and intensity to the performances given on The Voice while giving the audience a stellar experience both live in studio and at home in broadcast.
Oscar’s work in Season 2 of The Voice brought over 500 Chauvet Professional fixtures into the lighting rig: over 350 COLORdash Batten Tri units, 60 COLORado 1 Quad Tour fixtures, 48 COLORado 1 Tri Tour units, and 44 pixel mapping Epix Bar fixtures helped Oscar and his team to create the vibrant designs that audiences across the world have come to expect from The Voice.
Season 3 of The Voice was another milestone for Chauvet Professional and The Voice, as Oscar’s lighting rig incorporated the first 86 Nexus 4X4 pixel display units. Oscar and his Darkfire Lighting Design team designed some of the most spectacular broadcast lighting in recent history, gaining him the Creative Arts Emmy that his work, his team, and The Voice deserve. Bravo from Chauvet Professional to you and your team, Oscar!
About Oscar Dominguez, from his About page at Darkfire Lighting Design:
Oscar Dominguez, the founder and head designer of DARKFIRE INC, is the man behind the exciting visuals of NBC’s THE VOICE, THE BACHELOR and SHARK TANK. With over 20 years of experience lighting live and episodic television, he is one of an elite group capable of producing the large scale lighting spectacle that top-rated TV shows demand. Oscar was recently nominated for an Emmy for his work on THE VOICE LIVES Season 2 and with his team has created an impressive body of work.
DARKFIRE works closely with producers, art directors and videographers to create a lighting plot, budget and equipment recommendations. New technology appears on the marketplace every week and DARKFIRE’s technicians check out its viability and compatibility with modern cameras. The expectations of the TV viewing public have never been higher and the range of traditional and LED based fixtures has never been wider. A generation raised on excellence in concert lighting wants the same look and texture in their favorite weekly TV show. Fortunately modern camera technology has allowed designers like Oscar to re-create the looks that were previously only possible in live concerts.
Lighting for television is a collaborative process; with the convergence of set, lighting and special effects, the business of design is becoming more specialized. DARKFIRE continues to take a leading role and with every show renews its mission to bring visual excitement to millions of television viewers.
Excellent lighting design work coming from Wales by London/Cardiff/Los Angeles-based lighting designer Steffan Jones!
Chauvet Professional’s Legend 230SR Beam fixtures and MVP 12 modular video panels were part of the lighting inventory for a series of programmes on Welsh language channel S4C Light Entertainment. The series was recorded in a 10 day block at Studio 1 of the NEP Cymru (ITV Wales) facility at Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff, Wales. The CHAUVET Professional fixtures were specified by Cardiff and London based Lighting Designer Steffan Jones, and supplied by UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL. Steffan designed lighting and video for the raft of programmes, many featuring live artists.
Excellent work, Steffan! Check out Steffan Jones’ portfolio work!
Happy Hump Day, lighting industry!
It’s a busy week in our industry this week, and like all of our other busy weeks, you must take a few minutes for your own personal peace and sanity. This morning we submit something perfect for that application — a very rare live cut of the funk band Jamiroquai playing an amazing late night rip of Stillness in Time. We hope it brings you peace on this awesome Wednesday morning!
Check it out, turn it up!
It doesn’t matter how high or low it is, when truss falls, it can hurt, destroy, and kill.
Here’s a quick video of a band playing live in Poland when their low-hanging upstage truss tipped right over onto the drum kit. Be careful out there, everyone. Make sure you’re not overloading your gear, and make sure you’ve got it rigged properly. Accidents in our business are no laughing matter.
Stay safe out there, take care of each other.
photo credit Mark Owens
She’s amazingly intelligent, she’s sassy, and most importantly of all, she’s one of the top lighting programmers on the lighting market. Internet, meet Cat West of Flash and Trash Works. Cat and her amazing husband/business partner Joe Cabrera run perhaps THE best lighting programming and media server companies in the world today – Flash and Trash Works, Inc.
Cat is seen below here rocking not only the amazing Cat West Star Wars dress, but moments before rocking the Nexus 4X4‘s you see in the photos (and a ton of Geyser RGBs you don’t see)! Cat West, we here at the Chauvet Professional Blog salute you!
GO CAT, GO!