Archive for February, 2010

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Flickr lighting group

I was poking around iSquint and discovered that they “sponsor” a flickr lighting group called “iSquint.net Friday Lighting Porn,” where you can post whatever great lighting project/production you’re working on. There’s some really nice work in there.

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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

iPhone apps for lighting

I was poking around in the Apple App Store today, and found Pocket LD, which: “is a photometric database and calculation tool for theatrical and TV/Film lighting professionals.  Simply enter your throw distance, than select manufacturer, fixture and a lamp to calculate beam/field diameter and fc/lux.”  Checking out the website for the source, I came [...]

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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

New (to me) Links

Funnily enough, tho this blog is called “The Humble Nailbanger,” your humble narrator probably tends to work as an electrician more than as a carpenter, and so was pretty happy to find these links: iSquint is “an entertainment lighting technology blog that covers new products, services and trends within the industry.” The Lighting Archive “is [...]

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Monday, February 15th, 2010

And so…

…well, things happen.  In the world of the stagehand, there is very little security.  When one manages to find some, one sometimes tends to live it up, to sit back, take a look around with thumbs hooked under imaginary suspenders, and reflect on all the time one spent hustling to get right where they’re sitting, [...]

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