The Lighting Nerds

Did you hear about the three holes in the ground? Well, well, well... JOIN THE FRIGGIN DISCORD, NERD In this episode: Hear the sounds of hope and anticipation of the 47th President of the United States not being a insane person! Ah, 'twas a simpler time... Embark on a journey through Ayrton's Pollockian landscape of absurdist, Technicolor prose. Witness the tortured output of ChatGPT trying its be...

It's episode 045, a most inauspicious number. Last episode EVER...to be recorded on this beast of a Mac Pro tower from 2010. You've been good to me, CODA. In this episode: -The Robe iBolt. We also chat about laser sources in general, and opine as to why FDA treats them so -The Martin MAC Viper XIP -The CM BatteryStar Hoist -PLSN CONTROVERSY: is a FREE publication FORCING the little guy to PAY TO P...

It's the Lighting Nerds! Into Logic and out of it again in an actually reasonable amount of time, belive it or not. Though sort of unreasonable when it comes to how long it's been since we released. Don't forget to join the Discord: https://discord.gg/vGPDbhU And hear other great pods at lightingnerds.net. Update your bookmarks, folks. This episode is the one with the corrected audio.   News Cobra...

Zounds! We're back again with a fresh helpin' of down-home, Wisconsin-grade minced oaths. We've got so much forking content to get through that if we don't get talking, we might driven to harder words like frickin' or shirtballs. At least there won't be any trolley problems. In this episode: News items The Ayrton Cobra Unreal Engine pricing changes Solotech founder in memoriam Designer chat Renais...

It's the Lighting Nerds, nerding out about lighting, of all things! In this episode: -The GLP X5 series, which uses four emitter colors...confusingly -The KL series profile - The passing of Richard "Nook" Schoenfeld - Tea Time: Thoughts about the grandMA 3. Spoiler alert: not all good! - Lighting term of the day: camlock, and to a lesser extent, a discussion of feeder - Lighting trivia: Alex and C...

It's episode 041! Not episode 042. That's the next episode. You know, I made some really delicious brussels sprouts tonight, they were like...flavor sponges. They were SO GOOD with the mustard and maple sauce that I made. Anyway...where am I? Who are you people? This episode was recorded in March, so things are a teensy-tiny bit out of date, but stick with us, folks. We have some good stuff here t...

Yeah, we still podcast. Sometimes. In this day and age of little work, sometimes we seem to have even less time to get together to pod. Certainly, it affects our motivation. But we have mustered some up for you, dear listeners, so let's dive into this year's week's episode. New fixtures: the Martin MAC Ultra Notable personnel movements: don't move, it's COVID. Garth Brooks cancels Notable stage de...

Because we suck at publishing, it's been a while. But here's a new episode, and it's 39, which is a LUCKY NUMBER. In this episode: The Chroma-Q thing that has some cool gears for focusing. Craig is amazed, because he's never seen that before, but apparently it's a thing Drafty 4.0: It's Drafty-er! Michael Strickland of Bandit Lites fighting for Teh Working Class Decentralized productions. Tea Time...

It's our THIRTY EIGHTH episode. Craig has finally moved, and finally got this edited. Geez. Two locations, two webinars, and a broken lead pipe later...we are finally releasing this old thang. Anyway. In this episode: ChamSys MQ500 Robe Tetra1 grandMA3 OnPC XT Grant Imahara's death Tea Time: Controlling your cash flow Interview: Tucker Downs, color scientist Lighting trivia: Alex gets it wrong Lig...

Geeze, United States. We leave the room for ONE SECOND and everything goes up in flames, at times literally. To those who have asked: Craig is fine. (He lives in the Twin Cities, but all is well) In this episode: Alex and Craig talk about the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd New Gear: Robert Juliat Arthur, Luminex Lumicore, Digital Projection Satellite Notable Tours: Keene Cause and...

In the midst of the global pandemic, we offer you this commentary on the state of the lighting industry. I have very few pithy comments this week, because this pandemic is just so emotionally draining. The strain of prolonged isolation is truly monumental. Hang in there, everyone. I'm feeling it, just you like are. In this episode: ETC Fos/4 Craig gets a little ranty-about Chinese market fixtures...

Yeah, we know you haven't thought about COVID-19 for like...ten seconds, but here we are anyway, talking about it. At least, like, a little. It's the episode featuring the OG Lighting Nerd, Gavin Lake! Say hello, Gavin. In this episode: Industry news:   God almighty, the mother effing coronavirus. Wash your hands, blah blah, let's  commiserate about how super effed we all are.   New fixtures / gea...

It's a Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Las Posadas/Eid-al-Adha/Diwali/Festivus miracle! An episode: shiny, new, episode 034. Curl up in front of the fire, break out the  Glögg,  or if you're like Craig, Templeton Rye and have yourself a merry little whatever with The Lighting Nerds. I really should decide whether to always include the "The" or not. Sheesh. New fixtures / gear MIXBOOK Wat Sort of limite...

We're back with the hackneyed animal similes. In this episode: The Chauvet Maverick MK3   We talk about having network connectivity such as sACN/Artnet vs physical DMX that loops thru etc.   And some other stuff The Martin ERA 300 /Martin ELP Profile Range The new generation of visualizers Tea Time Craig gets *very* long-winded. God, is he still talking? Lighting trivia: Alex's lucky guess! Lighti...

It's The Lighting Nerds, episode 032. That's an exponent of 8, which makes this episode extra-special. We also have Jose, my old L2 from Halsey, filling in for Alex, who's off making money for this ep. In this ep:   Industry news and fixture talk The Martin MAC Allure It's cool, I want to see a rig of many The Elation Artiste Monet Jose likes it! The ETC Releve Much better than that other ETC movi...

It's Episode 031! Craig and Alex are back, Craig had a baby. Well, his partner did anyway. It's the Episode with the title card you'll have to listen to the whole thing to get. In this episode:   Industry news We do not talk about the new Clay-Paky light, because I have conflicting information about it. Does it use a phosphor? Are there lasers? CP won't say. High End Systems Turbo Ray Vari-Lite 65...

Woah, two eps in the space of a month? Stop the presses! Hold the phone! Pet the hedgehog! Wat? In this episode, Alexander is back:   Industry news:   New fixtures / gear   GLP JDC1s now feature "Aggressive mode", which increases the brightness 180% when the RGB LEDs are not in use   World's first 50-watt 7-color: emitter New short-arc lamps: Osram SharXS Brilliant Series. 1000, 1200, 1500. They h...

It's the Lighting Nerds, first ep of 2019. That's twenty-nineteen. Special guest co-host, Chas! In this Episode:   ROE Vanish V8 LED screen New Follow-Me hardware Craig has concerns about AC Lighting Clay-Paky manuals are now behind a username / pass wall? Why? That's dumb. Bohemian Rhapsody Tea Time: The Taylor Swift Reputation Tour, Part I Lighting Trivia: Chas guesses Lighting Term of the Day:...

It's the Lighting Nerds! Your go-to source for slightly up-to-date lighting information! In this episode: News Items The Vari-Lite VL10 WashBeam Circa-Scoop LED by Mega Lite. Interesting. The Altman AP-150. It's...an RGBW PAR. Notable Movements George Masek is back at VL. Woo, George! Notable Tours Frame By Frame Tea Time Controlling Media as an LD Lighting Trivia Alex cheats Lighting Term of the...

We're  still not dead yet! Craig's back from Halsey, and Alex is done with his move. We're here to chew gum and make podcasts, and we're stock full of Juicy Fruit. Er, or something like that? Since I know you're listening, hi, Drew! Anyway, in this "ep": Industry news I lost the audio of our last show, which is why this has taken so long. Sorry. Ayrton is making eyes at doing "standard" moving lig...

It's the TWENTY-FIFTH EPISODE of Lighting Nerds! In this episode, we keep Alex around, joke (or do we??) about being corporate shills, and talk about festival lighting.   In this ep:   News Items Alex sees the Portman lights, Craig still doesn't like them, exactly. The 2018 Superbowl halftime show The 2018 Winter Olympics - we can't review them, because we couldn't watch them. Shame on you, NBC. T...

It's the one with Brad Schiller! Fresh off the newly-reinstalled Silver Mac Tower of Audio is Episode 024 of The Lighting Nerds. In this "ep":   News Items A new touring roadshow, from ENTECH.  http://www.avnetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=128052 GrandMA 3 orders exceeding expectations, delays of up to eighteen months expected. Portman releases the Pix31. The Lighting Nerds question its utility....

We've fixed our audio! Thanks to everyone who sent me pineapples, I really appreciate it.   Our title this time references electric toothbrushes, people...obviously...   In this episode:   News grandMA3! It's new! It's big! It has little letterbox screens that are just *begging* for a cool timecode view. GLP Force 120 It's a big ass fan. Not to be confused with Big Ass Fans. SGM G-Spot Turbo No gr...

Does anybody read these? If any of you are reading this, shoot me a email / DM / tag me with "pineapple".   The Lighting Nerds! We're still around. Thanks so many to the many, many people who stepped up in to say that they'd be happy to host a show with me, it felt really good to find out that people still care and want to help. Introducing a new host who will be around (I hope!) a while, it's Ale...

Somewhat approaching a normal release schedule, I hereby...release a new episode. Wherein I bungle a movie reference. In this episode:   News items Mythos 2...it's...mythier? VL6000. Kinda cool. Watch Netflix's new series, Abstract: The Art of Design Tea Time - getting faster at punting, favorite macros Production review - Tobias Rylander, The 1975 Lighting term of the day - Total Internal Reflect...