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.
– Mike Graham, looking pensive in front of MVP™ video panels
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET® Professional
I’m at PLASA 2011. We are getting the show ready and for the second time, we are right in front of the doors leading to Earls Court 2. For those of you who have been to Earls Court, you know that right before those doors, the floor of the hall tilts up a little. That tilt is where the stages are when the big shows come in.
Anyone who knows me knows I am a big Pink Floyd fan. In fact, I’m writing this blog and listening to “P•U•L•S•E Live at Earls Court”. It actually sends a chill down my spine to think that I am lucky enough to build up a rig and help design and program lights in the exact spot where some of the greatest shows have ever been produced. Not only was PULSE here in 1994, but the original “The Wall” was also staged here in 1980 and again in 1981. It is a mind-blowing thing for me to think about those shows and in my own little way, I can pay tribute to those who have come before me and produced some of the greatest shows ever. Not only has Pink Floyd made history there, but many others including Led Zeppelin, Genesis, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Elton John, U2, and Madonna have played sold-out multi-night shows there. Some of the world’s best lighting designers have held court right there where our booth is.
Pink Floyd at Earls Court, 1973
For some reason, I feel totally at ease working here in this space. I’m not sure if is the history of the room, or if it the intimacy of working in a smaller space than at trade shows like LDI or Pro Light + Sound. I look forward to coming back here year after year and doing our show in the same place. Right here, where the floor tilts.
Today, I heard a terrible rumor (as if there is any other kind). I heard within the next two years, Earls Court Exhibition Centre would face its own demise. I also just read about it online. Looks like this venue will be torn down to make way for 8,000 flats. This is a travesty of the highest proportions.
I plan to make the most of the tilted floor this year.
We’re looking for a student reporter to go toe-to-toe with PLSN Editor Justin Lang at this year’s LDI in Orlando. Read the full story here.
UPDATE. Check out this video from PLSN’s Justin Lang, taken at PLASA 2011. In it he, Berenice Chauvet (VP) and Ford Sellers (Senior Product Manager) demonstrate what they are looking for in a student reporter.
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET® Professional
This year, we at CHAUVET® have a pretty aggressive trade show season. We kick it off with Prolight + Sound next week in Frankfurt, Germany, and will end it with LDI in Orlando, Fla., come October. I will be in Germany next week and will be sending bloggage back from the show. We are looking forward to a great season with some awesome booths.
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.
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.
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