LD Rob Halliday has brought two of his books, Entertainment In Production, which he will donate to Light Relief and Behind The Scenes for auctions to raise money for these industry charities. Halliday is requesting that anyone mentioned in the book, stop by to sign them at the ESTA booth #2512 sometime during the show. Then Halliday will take the signed copies back to England for more signatures. Anyone who more

Steve Gilbard from coolux is dropping some mad images and techniques in scenic mapping, blending and image warping. Nigel Sadler from Green Hippo blew the crowd away with the new image paint feature on Hippo, allowing the user to pipe Photoshop through the hippo and use those powerful manipulation tools to create live on stage painting, really specific masks, and crisp scenic detail.

We started with a primer on blending more

About to kick off the afternoon with an in depth discussion on LED technologies. We’re covering the low-res craze, as well as the development of more economical high resolution.

This year is seeing some great new product roll outs, both in the category of display tech, and lighting fixtures… Is there a difference? Hard to say these days.

I’ll be joined on this panel more

Sitting now watching Allan Wells and Bruce Rodgers from Tribe design talk about their recent work… Man do they kick butt. Bruce has totally expressed my fantasies of ‘exploding’ displays to create amazing three dimensional arrays of LED product that truly blur the line between scenery and display.

His work on Rascal Flatts, Madonna’s Drowned World, and the Democratic National Convention has shown more

Thought I would catch you up on the progress from the show floor. These are from the last 24 hours.

Our own Live Design booth is already looking grand at the show entrance with three days to go until show day.

The ETC booth was shaping up well yesterday afternoon.

PRG was more