Every time we look over at Mike Graham, one of our resident human walking awesomesauce packets, we can’t help but wonder how he fits all of that knowledge into one polo shirt wearing container. Mike provides great articles for Tech Talk here on the Chauvet Professional Blog, full of insight and hard work from his […]
LAS VEGAS – Reaffirming its support for the industry and confidence in its future, CHAUVET Professional is excited to announce its plans for a high-profile presence at LDI. This positivity will be clear to see at the company’s booth (2041), which has been designed around the theme “Depends on Your Perspective LIGHT,” and will be […]
June 23 and 24th were two amazing days at CHAUVET Professional. We hosted lighting and scenic designer Christian Choi and Martha Vasquez here at our offices in Sunrise, Florida. Along with Christian and Martha, we also invited several other designers into our offices to meet and share ideas. John Dickson of LD Systems, Brett Angstadt […]
Want to create some novel new looks without investing in new gear? The answer may be right inside your current lighting fixtures, or more precisely in their gobo wheels. In this video our own Mike Graham shows how you can use gobo morphing to open a world of new creative possibilities.
In this edition our own Mike Graham teaches us the ropes. We’re not referring to the inner workings of the lighting design world, although Mike can draw on his experience to enlighten us about that topic! Our subject is real ropes – the different kinds you’re likely to encounter and the different knot styles you […]
This is the last in the series, but fear not, there will be more coming! Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET® Professional I can remember sitting in the audience during a show on one of the ships I was auditing. There was a banjo player on stage and he was working on creating […]
Simulating natural light on stage doesn’t come naturally. It’s the result of careful planning and the adroit use of front, side, back and top lighting. Mike Graham walks us through the process of creating realistic daytime and nighttime lighting on stage, including sharing tips on using breakup gobos to simulate shadows.
Here is part 2 of Zen in the Art of Lighting. Enjoy! Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET® Professional Question: How many grains of sand are in the desert? Answer: Not one more than there has to be. When you are working on your design of your light plot, it is important […]
Wow, that is a lot of T words! Check out one of our first ever tech talks from back in 2010 talking about DMX and AMX Hard to believe it, but there are still systems out there using AMX to run their lighting systems. We have come so far with the proliferation of Art-Net, ACN, […]
This is a re-post from a few years ago. We just re-read it and thought it was fitting for Monday Morning Zen Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET® Professional “I know nothing, but you know less. Together, we will learn and become Masters.” ~ Michael Thomas, Bartender and friend 1995 When you start […]
It’s time to take the base covers off and get down to the nitty-gritty of moving head maintenance. Mike Graham walks you through the maintenance basics for everything from belts to lenses to gobos to CMY bulkheads so you can keep your moving heads in top shape.
Chauvet’s own Jim Hutchison, creator of JimOnLight, challenged Berenice Chauvet to take part in the Ice Bucket Challenge to fight ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, which imprisons people in their own bodies.