Hot on the heels of a successful USITT, we packed our bags, loaded the trucks and made our way to Germany for the Prolight + Sound tradeshow in Frankfurt (April 10-13). Here are a few highlights from the show floor and beyond…
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Art and high technology unite in spectacular fashion in the latest iteration of Leni Schwendinger’s Dreaming in Color illuminated color field at the Seattle Center Campus.
For students interested in film, storytelling and fashion, VIA University College in Aarhus, Denmark is an international hub. VIA’s department of Film & Transmedia houses the professional bachelor program Multiplatform Storytelling and Production. Technical Coordinator Thomas Erland Pedersen was...
Today, we’re trying something new…and you can, too. Theatre-makers are truly MAKERS. We are people who find a problem and solve it. Budgets are never high enough, and so we experiment, learn, share — and then experiment more. ETC embraces this maker culture. We get it.
Nicknamed the “Showplace of the Nation,” Radio City Music Hall is truly one of the most iconic entertainment venues in the US. When the stock market crashed in 1929, plans for an opera house fell through and John D. Rockefeller began looking for a way to turn the Manhattan property that now holds...
There has been an increase in color in ETC’s Wisconsin offices over the course of the year. White breakrooms are now anything but. The large open space above the shipping department in Middleton’s headquarters building is no longer open. And large white walls are slowing being filled.
Welcome to Eos on Broadway, where we take a look at the behind-the-scenes control that makes a large-scale show tick. In this installment, Eos programmer Scott Kearns Tusing talks about the controls work that went into bringing the musical Anastasia to Broadway.The production opened on April 24th...
Jason Perry has a very cool basement. When he’s not coordinating demos in ETC’s New York office, Perry likes to tinker and invent; the lower level of his Connecticut home is an envy-inducing arcade of old games and coin-operated antiques, including three pinball machines that he’s restored to...
ETC’s Hollywood office has been known to play a competitive, color-matching game with two Source Four LEDs. Pitting two programmers against each other in a fierce, timed battle for iridescent glory, this is a game that hones the skills of even the finest programmers and lighting designers.
This article by Rob Gerlach first appeared in the January-February 2016 edition of Entertainment Technology Asia magazine.