LRX Lighting was at LDI this year - if you’re not familiar with LRX’s products, they do a lot of high-output fixtures and accessories for film and television lighting, mostly robotic.  The first picture I took here (well, and the second one too), with the fixture having 36 lamps, is the Scorpion.  The Scorpion is a fixture that has 36 lamps, and has pan, tilt, and trolley control either via their proprietary controller, or via DMX.

The other fixture is the LRX Piranha, which is another big punch HMI.

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I don’t have any kind of affiliate partnership with the products I write about, so I am doing it out of pure enjoyment of the fixture and its design.  One such product that I just ran across while researching is the Lalique Collection by ET2 from CSN Lighting.

CSN Lighting is kind of an upscale store, but the fixtures they have on their site are beautiful.  Definitely do some browser-window shopping.

Check out the Lalique Collection by ET2:

ETC had a lot of really friendly people at their booth this year!  The EOS console was something that I am very interested in learning more about, especially after Mike Zinman told me about all of his excellent escapades with it.  Check out images I took of ETC’s space below.

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Giorgio and his big Italian style has created the Kappu Lamp.  His pieces, including the Kappu Lamp, are bold and colorful, with the entire unit acting as a diffuser.  The top and bottom separate, and are created from two pieces of thermoformed poly  that connect to hide the lamp source.

These pieces are mix and match, too - you can dream up your own combination of color.

Check out Giorgio’s Coroflot page.

Thanks, Yanko Design!

I was very impressed at the Martin booth - lots of pixel video, the Mac III is still awesome, but I had a hard time getting anyone to talk to me about it.  Lots of people there, I’m sure I didn’t look too important, or at least unimportant by comparison.

It was great to see the Mac III in action!

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Elation Professional, a lighting company that specializes in automated fixtures and lots of LED stuff, had a great booth at LDI.  It resembled Vari*Lite’s booth a little, but was just as colorful and bright.  Check it out.

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Chauvet’s booth at LDI was one of my favorites.  They really put the LED line of fixtures at the front of their marketing for the conference, and the folks there were extremely kind and easy to talk to, and I did for a bit of time.  The rendering that the COLORado fixtures has is quite nice, quite bright, and compact.  They also had several of their products on display, and an exciting array of truss panels suspended above everything.

I did not catch the name or product code of the big monster searchlight looking fixture, but if you did, post in the comments!

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LDI had a TON of moving light manufacturers and reps this year - while I was surprised a little, I wasn’t shocked.  A good quantity of the moving lighting booths that weren’t Clay Paky, Coemar, Vari*Lite, Martin, High End, PRG, etc, were small-ish companies like Ominsistem out of Washington.  They’ve got a very large selection of fixtures and effects (as well as audio, truss, staging, etc), and their booth was hopping the whole weekend.  Give their selection of products a look-see.

Isle of Man

I just read an article at PLSN about the big ol’ castle at the Isle of Man in England.  For a fund raising event for Breast Cancer Awareness,  Event Lighting Services lit up the outside of the castle in pink.

As a symbol of breast cancer support and awareness, the Falcon Cliff Castle on this British isle, dubbed the “Isle of Woman” for a recent fund-raising event, was washed in pink hues cast by Chauvet COLORado LED light fixtures. Part of “In the Pink Day,” the architectural lighting installation helped mark the end of a year-long fundraising drive that raised $55,000.

The Chauvet lights were selected because of their “vivid colors and spectacular brightness,” said Justin McMullin, owner of Event Lighting Services (ELS), a stage and event lighting rental company based on the island, which donated the lighting. “Because of this we only had to use six fixtures in all to light up such a large building,” McMullin said.

ELS used four Chauvet COLORado 1 wash lights and two COLORado 3 bank systems, both designed for outdoor use with an IP rating of 66. The models offer full RGB color mixing, which allowed for occasional changes in hues of the castle’s façade throughout the event.

Falcon Cliff, more than 150 years old, originally served as a residence for a banker. It later became a hotel and during the late 1880s, a large dance hall was added. Shuttered in the 1990s, the landmark building was restored and now serves as an office complex.

The COLORado LED fixture line is something from Chauvet that has been getting a lot of popularity.  A friend of mine working for Michael Riotto Design in NYC was telling me at LDI this year that a lot of installations are getting these fixtures lately.  They’re bright!

If you’ve never seen a Syncrolite up close, you’re really missing out.  Syncrolites are enormous yoke fixtures, Xenon sources, starting at 5kW and going up to 10kW.  They’ve lit up the pyramids at Giza, they’ve lit up Celine, they’ve been a lot of places, and lit a lot of stuff and things.  They’re HUGE.  Some of them stand 6+ feet tall, and are just huge.  You cannot mistake them for much else than a Syncrolite, as they have a distinctive look and appearance.  Their booth at LDI can be seen from the entrance, and from most other corners of the show floor.

Here’s some images of the Syncrolite booth.

My friend Anjeanette Stokes, in front of the Syncrolite booth.

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