It's the Lighting Nerds! Your go-to source for slightly up-to-date lighting information!

In this episode:

• News Items
  • The Vari-Lite VL10 WashBeam
  • Circa-Scoop LED by Mega Lite. Interesting.
  • The Altman AP-150. It's...an RGBW PAR.
• Notable Movements
  • George Masek is back at VL. Woo, George!
• Notable Tours
  • Frame By Frame
• Tea Time
  • Controlling Media as an LD
• Lighting Trivia
  • Alex cheats
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Additive and subtractive mixing

We're still not dead yet!

Craig's back from Halsey, and Alex is done with his move. We're here to chew gum and make podcasts, and we're stock full of Juicy Fruit. Er, or something like that?

Since I know you're listening, hi, Drew!

Anyway, in this "ep":

• Industry news
  • I lost the audio of our last show, which is why this has taken so long. Sorry.
  • Ayrton is making eyes at doing "standard" moving lights. That's kind of interesting.
  • grandMA 3. Yeah, of course we're gonna talk about it.
  • City Theatrical makes top hats for the X4.
  • The WholeHog 4 hardware refresh. Craig has some feelings about the WholeHog.
• Tea Time
  • The cost of being a lighting designer in 2018
• Lighting Trivia
  • What does "DIP", as in "DIP switch" stand for?
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Punter

It's the TWENTY-FIFTH EPISODE of Lighting Nerds! In this episode, we keep Alex around, joke (or do we??) about being corporate shills, and talk about festival lighting.

In this ep:

• News Items
  • Alex sees the Portman lights, Craig still doesn't like them, exactly.
  • The 2018 Superbowl halftime show
  • The 2018 Winter Olympics - we can't review them, because we couldn't watch them. Shame on you, NBC.
  • TARM LaserGrid
• Tea Time
  • Festival lighting! Building your rig, getting along with people. Perhaps we'll touch on programming for festivals later?
• Lighting Quiz
  • Alex gets it right
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • DMX

-C

It's the one with Brad Schiller!

Fresh off the newly-reinstalled Silver Mac Tower of Audio is Episode 024 of The Lighting Nerds. In this "ep":

• News Items
  • A new touring roadshow, from ENTECH. http://www.avnetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=128052
  • GrandMA 3 orders exceeding expectations, delays of up to eighteen months expected.
  • Portman releases the Pix31. The Lighting Nerds question its utility.
  • Martin introduces the RUSH MH11 Beam.
• Interview
  • It's the one with Brad Schiller, legendary lighting designer, programmer, Renaissance Man, culinary master and inventor of the "Schiller Technique" for cooking pineapple, and all around Friend of the Podcast. Recorded 2017, sat on a hard drive in New Hampshire until now.
• Tea Time
  • We discuss doing ALL the visuals for productions as one person.
• Lighting Trivia
  • Craig gets it right, for a change
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Lamp / globe / bulb

-C

We've fixed our audio! Thanks to everyone who sent me pineapples, I really appreciate it.

Our title this time references electric toothbrushes, people...obviously...

In this episode:

• News
  • grandMA3! It's new! It's big! It has little letterbox screens that are just *begging* for a cool timecode view.
  • GLP Force 120
    • It's a big ass fan. Not to be confused with Big Ass Fans.
  • SGM G-Spot Turbo
    • No green emitter! Fascinating.
  • Katy Perry's "Witness" tour is using PSN for positional data. Had you heard about PSN? Me neither.
• Tea Time
  • Piracy, specifically console piracy. Don't do it, kids. Inspired by reddit.
• Lighting Trivia!
  • Craig loses.
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Ballast. Also describes some industry people I know.

Happy new year, everyone! Here's to the continuation of the show.

-C