Six questions with Chris Allen of Red Eye Audio and Lighting, 1. How did you get into this field? I started in theater in high school, as an actor, and picked up some of the tech side just by being there. When a friend of mine and I started a local music event, we needed […]
Located in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale, Off the Hookah features world-ranked flair bartenders, belly dancers and a hypnotizing light show made up of more than 200 CHAUVET fixtures. To create the one-of-a-kind atmosphere, lighting designers installed 32 Epix Strip pixel-mapping strip light, 28 Q-Wash 260-LED and four Q-Spot 560-LED moving heads, four Impulse […]
CHAUVET hosted Richard Cadena, from the Academy of Production Technology, for a three-day seminar about “Lighting Design and Applications” at its Florida headquarters. Here are some photos of Cadena, sharing his knowledge and passion for lighting with CHAUVET team members. Also check out our three-part interview of Cadena talking with our own Ford Sellers. LD […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional By now, you know what kind of show you are doing and what it is going to look like. The plot is finished up and all of your gear is in pretty rows of road cases on your show site. Now what? Here are a few […]
Six questions with Matt Levesque, experienced lighting designer of architectural projects, theme parks, and corporate events. – also, founding principal of First Circle Design. Levesque recently completed a major design at MGM Macau in China, where he specified 95 Ilumipanel 180 IP wash lights from CHAUVET Professional’s Iluminarc line of architainment fixtures. 1. How did […]
Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional When we left our heroes, they were sitting at the front of a theatre trying to decide — to pixel map or not to pixel map? Ideally, you want to do both, but let’s hope that this decision was made weeks ago during pre-production. The Wall […]
The Marlin Hotel, located in South Beach, has been reborn with the help of ILUMINARC LΩgic fixtures, which are part of the CHAUVET Professional line. The color changing LED-fitted lights are part of the LΩgic System which work seamlessly with the Savant system installed in the hotel, whereby room amenities as well as the lights […]
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 a mood. He was trying to create the image of sitting on his grandfather’s front […]
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 to not throw every single light you have at the stage…unless it absolutely […]
We were pleased to have Richard Cadena at CHAUVET HQ for a three-day seminar from his APT class series. While here, Cadena sat down for talk with our own Ford Sellers, senior product development manager for CHAUVET. Here is part one of three: