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Approaching video as a lighting designer

Video is lighting. That’s right, we’re going to dive right in. Start the article in medias res1 because that’s how we do things in the production industry. No long-winded exposition on the history of media servers, how LED technology has changed the face of lighting and video both, no comments about the Icon-M (Remember those?). We’re gonna jump right in and talk about how to think about and design with video elements when one comes from a mostly lighting background. Designing with video   One of my very first jobs was full-time technical director at a big church in a flyover state. We had several projected screens in the auditorium, which we fed IMAG and content from a media server.… Read More »Approaching video as a lighting designer

DEEP WEB – kinetic laser show

This is an interesting “kinetic audiovisual installation”, designed by artist Christopher Bauder and composer and musician Robert Henke. There are 175 spheres suspended on moving winches, and 12 RGB lasers placed around the “canvas” of the spheres, and it appears that either the timing is very well controlled to keep the lasers on the spheres, or they’re feeing back Z-positional data to the software that’s pointing the lasers. Regardless of how the technology setup is, well, set up, the pictures and especially the video speak for themselves; this is a beautiful work of art: Deep Web from Robert Henke on Vimeo.