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    Post-LDI

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    Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional

    …And then it was over.  After four days of load in, each consisting of about 14 hours per day, three days of show, and 12 hours of load out, it is all done. LDI 2011 is officially in the can. I have barely had time to really reflect on the show yet, but wanted to make sure to thank those who made this whole thing a success.

    Our rental suppliers for the show, Bandit Lites and Christie Lites were on point with all of their respective gear. (Christie supported the Club/DJ booth, while Bandit handled the Professional side.) Bandit also supplied a crew chief who was second-to-none. Our programmer, Chris Lisle was very supportive and open to our direction for all of the programming of the lights. Northstar Event Services provided us with a top notch crew for labor and all of the people they supplied attacked every situation we threw at them with a smile.

    On the CHAUVET side, Todd Murray cranked out some amazing video footage that showed off everything that the MVP panels were capable of doing. It came out perfect. I would also like to thank Ben Dickmann and Ford Sellers for all of their assistance (while I was overseas or stuck in bed) ensuring nothing got missed. Our onsite team of Allan Reiss, Alex Ocampo, Anthony Chiappone, Graham Neave, Michael Corby, Maurice Allen, Max Morgan, Richmond McDaniel,  David Valez, and  Raglan Jones worked till they dropped to make all three of our booths come to life. Our marketing team did a killer job of making sure our branding was up to standard and that we had great catalogues, cut sheets, banners, handouts, t-shirts, and everything else that people remember after the smoke clears.

    All in all, to everyone who made this show a success, thank you!!! And to any doubters who are still out there, it’s only a matter of time till you are INfected!

    CHAUVET Wins Best Large Booth Award at LDI 2011

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    Out of more than 120 exhibitors, CHAUVET’s infectious lighting became contagious and received the Best Large Booth award at LDI 2011 in Orlando. It’s not the first time CHAUVET has stolen the show and infected attendees with light. In 2007, we received the same award at LDI when we ingeniously presented the “It’s Green Thinking” theme.

    This year, we were on a mission to get attendees addicted to lighting, so we built our Pro booth around the theme “Lighting Is Infectious“.

    A total of 579 fixtures were installed in the 1,800-square-foot booth. The center of the booth featured an intricate truss design, which was created to resemble a hovering spider carrying more than 200 lights on its infectious metal legs. The walls were framed on three sides by 296 interlocked MVP panels of different resolutions: MVP 12 LED, MVP 18 LED and MVP 37.5 LED video panels.

    We launched innovative lighting solutions such as the COLORado Zoom Tour static wash and Legend 412 moving yoke, and highlighted more inspiring fixtures like the MVP series, Colorado 1-Quad Tour and Q-Wash 560Z-LED. An “infected” runway was flanked by Q-Wash 260-LED moving heads and the new revolutionary Épix Series of pixel mapping fixtures run by ArKaos Kling-Net protocol.

    The MVP video panels, Legend 412, Épix Bar, Épix Strip and the Q-Wash 560Z-LED were among the most popular CHAUVET fixtures, drawing and enticing hundreds of guests.

    The Best Large Booth award is a well-deserved recognition for a labor of love. Lighting has infected us and we have passed it on…

    Straight to You, COLORado

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    Josh Groban‘s Straight to You Tour played its first show—back in the States, fresh from its European leg—at the Bank Atlantic Center (which is just minutes away from CHAUVET HQ!) in Sunrise, Fla. We had a chance to see the crooner perform live as well as see 14 of our COLORado Batten 144 Tour linear wash lights illuminate the stage’s backdrop.

    We talked briefly with the show’s Lighting Designer, Mac Mosier, about the show. “The tour just got back from Europe,” said Mosier. “I’m glad to have all my lights back! The [COLORado Batten 144 Tour] lights are fantastic. They work great, I like them.”

    More than a dozen musicians (horn players, drummers, violinists, guitarists, etc.) performed with Groban. A highlight was their instrumental version of Live and Let Die.

    Here are a couple of photos. Enjoy!

     

    LDI 2011: Day Two

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    More sneak peeks into the building of an infectious booth (183).

    Rigging board for the “spider”. Infectious!

    “Spider” rig

    “Spider” rig with video walls

    “Spider” rig and video walls

    “Spider” rig and video walls

     

     

    LDI 2011: Day One, Load In

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    Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional

    It’s day one of load in for LDI. Our crew killed it today! We rigged a total of 31 rigging points and all of our truss is ready for lights and video. Yep, its official, we are at LDI and ready to go. Big thanks to Andy Knighten from Bandit. Everything he promised us has come true. Nothing better than a man keeping his word!

    LD Profile: Thomas Aratanha Fonseca

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    Six Questions with Thomas Aratanha Fonseca
    Lighting Designer and Account Manager for Kor Media & Lighting

    1. How did you get into this field?
    I started as an actor studying at Uni-Rio in Brazil. When it came time for everyone to leave the theater so the stagehands could have the stage, I just wanted to stay. I loved being in the theater and ended up doing a little bit of everything. I started designing small productions for friends and before I knew it I had completely shifted my focus towards lighting.

    2. What do you think is the next big thing in the lighting industry?
    Because my focus is more in theatrical lighting, I would have to say an LED that could replace the  ETC Source4. A fixture that is equivalent to a 575-watt or a 750-watt lamp and is quiet. Color temperature of LEDs is getting better and better. I think every theater, church, or production company would buy a fixture like it in a heartbeat.

    3. Do you have a favorite fixture (and why)?
    I’ve worked quite a bit with the COLORado 1-Tri Tour. It’s great for backwash because of its tri-lensing as well as for incredible color mixing. Although it’s only a one-watt LED, it has great output and works perfectly for the theaters (where I mostly work) that have a trim of 21′ or less. Also, I’ve been truly impressed  by the Clay Paky Sharpy. It has an incredible output and it looks great.

    4. What has been your favorite design/project?
    One of my favorite designs would have to be working for YoungArts and being part of the alumni show. We had to put together a show that included artists from all different backgrounds. There were performers such as, a ballet dancer and a visual artist, a classical cellist and a pop singer, or a film maker and a jazz sax player. If that wasn’t enough, we only had a week to create it from scratch, tech it, and perform it. It was a great experience.

    5. What was the biggest unforeseen obstacle that you’ve faced in one of your designs, and how did you overcome it?
    I suffered every lighting designer’s nightmare. After finishing lighting and teching a full performance, I came back the next day for a dress rehearsal and was told the board lost ALL my cues. I went crazy of course and almost killed my programmer, but the end everyone said that the cues looked better the second time around.

    6. Complete this thought: A show without light is like…A snail without a shell… SLIMY!!

    Arts and Music Festival Celebrates in Vivacious Colors

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    Maplewood, N.J.  – Ten COLORado Batten 72 TOUR fixtures washed an old façade and clock tower at Columbia High School in brilliant colors for an arts and music festival. Charlie Hooven, owner of Synergy Systems in Holmdel, N.J., specified the wash lights incorporated in this temporary installation.

    Hooven chose to invest in CHAUVET fixtures when the high school wanted to stop using incandescent lights.
    “This was the first time we used CHAUVET, and everything worked so well! People driving by were pulling out to take pictures of the entrance,” he said. “Installation was so easy and overall I am very pleased with how the lights performed.”

    Eight of the COLORado Batten 72 TOUR lights were placed on the ground while two others perched in a window balcony halfway up towards the clock, where they ran a slow synchronized fade uplighting the tower and surrounding a projector screen with vivid colors.

    Lighting is Infectious

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    We believe this to be true. Admittedly, we have a love affair with light—light fixtures, light design and lighting in general. Lighting has infected us.

    Light breathes life into any design: concert stages, theater, interior spaces and skylines. For us, it has added life to our booth at LDI, which will embody our current expression of loving light and its infectious nature. We have created a small wondrous world filled with the many ways light can be articulated, as well as a visual platform to show case our new and exciting products.

    Imagine interlocked video walls made from our modular MVP Series surrounding a space especially created for our Q-Wash 560Z LED moving heads and Epix Series of pixel mapping fixtures. Overhead creeps a spidery truss design where our COLORado Zoom Tour static wash lights will hang alongside the awesome quad-colored Legend 412 moving yoke.

    The look will ensnare you. Our infectious new products will captivate you. Get infected by light at booth 183.

    Tennessee trip: Grand Ole Opry

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    Dwight Slamp, Business Development Manager for Production/Touring, is on the road. He stopped at the Grand Ole Opry and took a couple of photos of our COLORado Series in action. Check them out.

    The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville is equipped with 72 COLORado 1 Tour fixtures as down lights.

    Here is a shot of Tyler Bryan (Opry LD) controlling 400+ COLORado fixtures from his GrandMA console.

    Another shot of the Opry stage with some awesome color combinations.