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

We’ve kicked off the PMC with our playback session. The room is full of people soaking up deep knowledge about all the devices affecting our technological lives. At the moment the leading media server manufacturers are profiling the new advances in their software. Pandora’s new customizable control GUI is proving to be interesting and potentially powerful. Green Hippo is weighing in with their new Uber Pan more

For me, the approach of September has always meant a ramp up in activity. Sometimes it was learning, sometimes getting that first gig, sometimes getting ready to tour, finally now, getting ready to pound out some back to back to back shows. In the next 8 weeks, MODE will have Nickelback doing stadiums in Europe, The PBS special Joyful Noise, with the Boston Pops and assorted rock stars more