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Minor change to the website announcement – this blog is not intended to be commented on, it’s intended as a place for my design company (me) to write about industry news and products. I have globally disabled all comments on all entries, everywhere, for all time, because all that was happening was spam for Ugg boots and Nike shoes. If you want to respond directly to something I’ve written, use the contact page. I began using the Chauvet Professional AmHaze II on the Alan Jackson tour this year as our primary hazer, provided by Elite Multimedia. These haze units replaced the venerable (and noisy) ReelFX DF-50 Diffusion hazers, and marked a switch from oil-based to so-called “water-based” haze. This name… Read More »Gear review – Chauvet Professional AmHaze II

Well, TMB went and made the Firefly, a product I drew the basic idea for about a year ago, though mine was based on an EL wire instead of LEDs to get the true “glowing filament look”. The basic idea is to take a power-hungry but beautiful 3200 Kelvin light source and get the same light and look out of it with an efficient emitter like an LED. This would be pretty easy to do with a frosted bulb, which could hide and diffuse the light source, but much harder to emulate the traditional “Edison bulb” look because the visual appeal of those is based on a large, glowing filament. TMB has made an interesting hybrid using what looks like… Read More »TMB Firefly