Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. The latest push in the world of LED lighting has been control of said LEDs. Dimming has been a problem since the beginning of LEDs in the entertainment industry and has effectively made it so that it is unacceptable to many lighting designers to use LEDs […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Over the past few years, we have covered a really wide range of topics. I don’t think we have ever covered video lighting. So, with no further ado, we proudly present, [insert drum roll here] … lighting for video. There are a few commonalities in how […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional One of my favorite lines from “The Breakfast Club” is “It’s an imperfect world. Screws fall out all the time”. Truer words have never been spoken. If you ask any seasoned show technician, they will tell you that they remember more shows that went wrong than […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional As a protocol droid, C3P0 is fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. As a lighting industry professional, I feel like we need to be competitive with that number. I’m not saying that we need to be able to speak and understand so many languages, […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that over the past 20 years. Too many times to count, that’s for sure. However, there are some simple and easy ways to make sure that the tools and gear you showed up with at the job […]
Our own Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional and ILUMINARC, participates in this lively conversation about lighting and video in the AV world on AVNation. Join hosts George Tucker and Mike Postupak and additional guests Christian Samuelson of Xross Point AV and Aaron Medow of NBC Sports. Listen to the podcast now: The LIVE […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Superstitions surround everything that we do. Silly as they are, *knock on wood*, we all have them. For me, I guess that I am a creature of habit more than superstitious, but at some point, those habits become superstitions. For trade shows, I have a few […]
We had the pleasure of hosting Zach Matusow, tour lighting designer for Foster the People. While he was at CHAUVET HQ, we did a Take 5 Interview with a Lighting Designer segment with our own John Dunn, business development manager for the west coast, and gave him some one-one-one time with a few select CHAUVET […]
Maybe it was the impressive 30-feet height, or the colorful light and music show that ran every half an hour, or the 300 fixtures lighting in harmony the 20-by-40-feet space. Or, might have been all of the above that drew hundreds of visitors to our booth at this year’s InfoComm show in Las Vegas. “I […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional By now, you know what kind of show you are doing and what it is going to look like. The plot is finished up and all of your gear is in pretty rows of road cases on your show site. Now what? Here are a few […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional My name is Michael Graham and I have tried broccoli for the first time ever this week. I ended up liking it. For the past 37 years I have avoided it like it was some kind of evil stalk of green nastiness on my plate. I […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I love it when a plan comes together. We are almost done with the rig for InfoComm. Again, preshow planning has proved that going over and over (and over) your plans is time well spent. Having five days to load in doesn’t hurt either. Having this […]