

Living with Lightning
​ This is my buddy Dave Haluka. Dave has been struck by lightning four and a half times. The first time was when he was in high school...


Taking Socapex for a Spin
Long ago, someone had the brilliant idea to use a 19-pin round connector with 19-conductor cable for distributing power on truss, and the...


Feeder Soufflé
If you want to have some fun, try taking some feeder cable and putting it in your oven. First warm up your oven to something like 175° or...

Finally Cutting Again
I spent a lot of time over the last six or seven days shuffling big files around trying to get Final Cut Pro X working right on my...
Stage Lighting in the UK with Rob Sayer 2013 Part 1
Rob Sayer is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Production at Bath Spa University. I had a chance to visit him at the university, and we took...

Stop the Show
I got on my bicycle today for the first time in a long time and it felt good. Between my heavy travel schedule and my work load, I rarely...

Technopolis is the Intersection of Technology and Art
Johannes Itten, the Bauhaus art professor, was deeply interested in the use of color in art. In his book, "The Art of Color," he said,...