Think back to the very first time that you had ever seen a moving light either in a theatre or in a concert setting, all of today’s moving lights be it Clay Paky’s Sharpy or the versatile Martin Vipers or even the Martin Quantoms for that fact, all of them have one person to thank …
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Fred Foster: The Spark Behind the Lights
Fred Foster(1957-2019), The founder or Electronic Theatre Controls, or ETC for short began his journey to being one of the most influential men in our theatrical lighting field back in 1975 when he, his brother Bill and two other gentlemen decided to create their first prototype lighting control system that they named Mega Cue. 44 …
Homemade lighting fixture
This project as a whole was both fun and thought provoking. Creating a light out of either what I can find or purchase for under $30 was an exercise that I was more than happy to partake in. When conceptualizing my light I had a basic idea of what I wanted to do in mind …
DIY Follow Spot
Above you will find a rough drawing of how this fixture was assembled. I started off by assembling the AC connections to the lamp, and soldering the ground wire to the inside of the gallon paint can. Also, be sure to install a stopper to ensure that if the power cord is pulled, the stress …
Welcome
Welcome to our new blog we will be posting stage lighting projects from a couple lighting classes at the State University of New York at Fredonia. This is a work in progress so bare with us.