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Hi Everyone!I'm Drew Atienza, a working professional in Media Servers and my co-host is Tom Huston, a lighting designer and 3D/previz specialist. We are excited to announce that we are starting a podcast called "Goto Show Channel" where we will discuss both emerging technologies and...

Sound and Communications Magazine did a writeup on it with a gear list at the end of the article. You can view that here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0ac9279#/b0ac9279/46

Hi all! If you get the chance, head over to St. Louis Union Station (1820 Market Street, St. Louis MO) and check out the projection mapping shows that happen nightly, starting at about 5 pm and goes till midnight. It's free, in the lobby. http://www.stlouisunionstation.com/grand-hall-light-show/...

I'm just wondering... why make gobos out of cardboard when you can use those "hot dish" aluminium trays from your grocery store? They are fairly cheap, hold up well, can be cut with a hobby knife, you canget about 4-6 gobos out of them and you don't have to worry about it going up in flames. I...

Another thing to try is start to collect postcards that will inspire you. When you are programming or designing, scroll through those postcards and see if there is somthing you can use.

It's how "plausable" it is depends on your budget. Let's talk about the components needed for the effect. Projector- Depending on the screen size and the ambient light, you need to determine how many lumens you need to make the screen seen. You may be able to snag a projector from media...

If you are heading in a digital lighting type of job, I would highly suggest Graphic Communications/Graphic Design as a minor. Not only can I create my own custom content and work with what is given to me (customer artwork), I also get side jobs designing show posters, backstage I.D.'s and...

When fine flour is put into the air it is highly flammable. Sort of what happens in grain silos that explode. The fine dust in a big cloud catches fire and spreads rather rapidly.

I use a Wacom 3 Tablet (4"x6") and it works rather nicely. Look around the net to get an academic discount on it. There are sites such as www.academicsuperstore.com or some listings on E-Bay for the Academic Discounted ones. Take advantage of being a student!! Several compaines have Student...

A light console that is just a box with a DMX line coming out of it and a bluetooth headset. You simply tell the console what to do with verbal commands. You do your patch by going to patch mode and the console goes through each light and you tell it what it's gel number, location, focus, use...

It's not on anymore, other than the bad reviews, they claim it was due to a main actor getting very sick/injured.

Who here has used digital scenery (where a scenic element was composed of a projection or tv/plasma/crt display) for a show? What show was it? Was it called for in the script? I'm looking for plays/musicals, not dance shows or confrences/fixed camera. Thanks.

Yes you can. There is a stand alone mode outline on page 15 (or the 23rd page of the pdf) of the manual which can be found here: http://www.highend.com/pub/products/effects/AF1000/af1000.pdfAll of High End Systems discontinued (a.k.a. "Legacy") products have published manuals online at their...

Re: Hey i thought we could share pic of our showsI've gotta say.... we got the Beta Collage software a couple of weeks ago..... MIND BLOWING...... seriously... my hat ended up on the back wall...

I really like it here. There are several theatres around... I heard we are the Nations #1 Fun City (according to Trivial Pursuit.. they factored in Golf Courses per mile, # of things to do for certain age ranges, parks, museums, bars, etc...) If you can make it through a bad MN winter, you could...