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Skynet: Your Friendly Lighting Designer, Part I

Skynet: Your Friendly Touring Lighting Designer, Part I I wonder, sometimes, at the sorts of scenarios that military specialists imagine, particularly specialists tasked with dreaming up out-there scenarios like Klaatu landing on the South Lawn of the White House or (perhaps somewhat more likely) something both armed and dangerously experimental escaping from Boston Dynamics. Fun to think about, for sure, but also important. Even if any number of these scenarios is unlikely, this sort of imaginative play is vital to staying agile across a variety of domains. “What if…” is, and has always been, a question that we should ask from time to time. While not as (militarily) dire as, say, a Skynet scenario, an economically and – perhaps artistically… Read More »Skynet: Your Friendly Lighting Designer, Part I

The Spectral Inadequacy of RGBW

One of the first1 moving-head LED lights that I saw was the GLP Impression X90. Having spent the – well, not years exactly, but enough time in the biz to figure out that the MAC 2000 was more or less How We Did Things, it was pretty nifty. It was small, it was – in deep colors – punchier than moving heads three times its size, and it was blazingly fast in moves. It was a very cool light; a step in the ladder of advancement that had been in motion since we stopped burning bits of rock. The Impression – and back then, we all just called it The Impression, because there weren’t others – made a real splash.… Read More »The Spectral Inadequacy of RGBW