Lighting is Infectious

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.

Revolution Continues: Miranda Lambert

The last leg of Miranda Lambert’s tour, “The Revolution Continues“, has begun and with it a revved up light show from Chris Lisle. We were able to get some behind-the-scenes photos of the new stage design. On deck are COLORado™ Batten 72 TOUR linear wash lights and Legend™ 300E Beam moving heads.

Missouri trip: CHAUVET® (On the) Road Show

Blue Planet  Lighting, based in Hollister, Mo., played host to CHAUVET® Central U.S. Territory/Key Accounts Manager, Jeremy Pace, during their recent road show. Jeremy showcased fixtures such as the 2011 Parnelli Award-nominee for Indispensible Technology, WELL™ wireless uplighting fixtures, a member of Legend™ Series, our flagship moving yoke for the professional line, Legend™ 300E Spot, one of the newer members to the COLORado™ line, COLORado™ Range, and the variable white member from the SlimPAR™ Pro series, SlimPAR™ Pro VW. A big thank you to Blue Planet’s Mike Gormley for sharing these photographs.

Jeremy Pace in action, navigating the Legend™ 300E Spot.

Legend™ 300E Spot illuminated.

Legend™ 300E Spot fixture detail.

COLORado™ Range illuminated.

WELL™ fixture detail.

SlimPAR™ Pro VW, which is only 2.5" inches thick.

 

LD Profile: Camron Ware

Six questions with Camron Ware
Founder of Visual Worshiper, VJ, Light and Projection Designer

1. How did you get into this field?
Started at a church actually where we had no budget and I had to get resourceful and creative with lighting and environment design.  I would also travel and do one-off show where I learned the touring industry and now I have my own company that provides lighting and environment design.

2. What do you think is the next big thing in the lighting industry?
Brighter LEDs and more of them and the continual blurring between lighting and video. While those might be the obvious answers, it’s the reality.  More efficient light and lamps that do more for less money.

3. Do you have a favorite fixture (and why)?
I would have to say my 10,000 watt fresnel out of an old Disney studio – it’s amazing what you can do with one light.

4. What has been your favorite design/project?
Last year I lit Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a local private school that puts on big, quality productions.  It was in the round and had about 300 students in the cast and crew.  Aside from 96 ETC PARs, 40 moving lights and about 100 LED fixtures, my favorite piece was the LED light-up coat I built for Joseph to wear during the final bow.  [Video below.]

5. What was the biggest unforeseen obstacle that you’ve faced in one of your designs, and how did you overcome it?
It’s less about technical obstacles and more about lack of budget or passion from the people in charge.  Getting people to realize the power and dynamics of lighting can be tough when following creative dreams.

6. Complete this thought: A show without light is like…just another day listening to the radio.

Read Camron’s review of the COLORado™ Batten 144 Tour linear wash light here.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat video:

So You Think You Can Light Dance?

Mike Graham, looking pensive in front of MVP video panels

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET® Professional

I will never admit to watching shows like Live to Dance, or Dancing with the Stars, or American Idol, but if I did, I could tell you the evolution of lighting on TV shows has been astounding. Since I come from a design background and can remember when people were afraid of moving lights, I can tell you it is really cool to see how the technology has finally been fully embraced. For those of us who are old enough to remember Star Search, Soul Train, or Dance Fever (It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it. I give it an eight.), you will remember it was all about a ton of PAR cans, pin spots, mirror balls, and haze.  Now look at where we are. LED video walls, huge moving light packages, LED wash lights all over the place, and fantastic applications. What an evolution in just over 30 years.