Geez Louise, well I’m back and all settled in good ole Maryland. Aside from getting all my stuff into my new apartment I’ve been actually doing a lot or prep work for the Bonerama tour. I’ve been really working at adapting my old cue list to all the new ones I wrote. So what happened was that I took out “The Notebook” and began brainstorming all the ideas I had for the tunes. After getting down the initial ideas I like to go through all my old cue lists and compare what I wrote to the cues I already had programmed. Now, some cues work exactly with my old ones and then others require a bit of changes. I’ll also go through and create some new custom looks I feel would fit the show well. Another thing I’ve been doing is getting baggage for all my utilities like tools, cables, notebooks, etc. all gathered and placed in a certain way so I’ll be efficient as possible for loading in and out.

With the shift in entertainment economic dynamics from prepackaged media and toward live and on-demand modes, live special effects are taking center stage. A kind of spectacular-venue arms race is heating up demand for live SFX and, in the process, is driving up prices for the most advanced systems. Live special effects are going to become more special and lucrative as they move toward achieving a cinematic level of experience. 

---Dan Daley from The Biz, PLSN September 2007 

To close the loop on improved LED content, get yourself a first-class graphic artist who is downright dangerous with pixels (or, you could become a highly-skilled pixel-packer yourself). 

--- Paul Berliner from Pixel-Packin' Mamas, PLSN August 2007. 

Our industry is growing at an exciting pace. It seems like just the other day when we were all excited by color-mixing fixtures. Now we have to learn to program digital fixtures, media servers and more LEDs than we can count. There is always something new for everyone to discover, so get busy and start learning something new today. 

---Brad Schiller from Button Pushing 101, PLSN August 2007.  

I spend a lot of times in airports. I tend to be in them at least once a week. And they bore me. So here’s some nonsense I like to do to occupy the time while waiting for my inevitably late flight to leave.