The Lighting Nerds

Did you hear about the three holes in the ground? Well, well, well...

JOIN THE FRIGGIN DISCORD, NERD

In this episode:

• Hear the sounds of hope and anticipation of the 47th President of the United States not being a insane person! Ah, 'twas a simpler time...
• Embark on a journey through Ayrton's Pollockian landscape of absurdist, Technicolor prose. Witness the tortured output of ChatGPT trying its best to capture the true essence of a friggin' moving light.
  • Oh yeah, this one is about the Rivale Wash, or whatever.
• Orkis Cyc
  • So (liquid) cool, it's hot!
  • 90's kids will understand that one
• AOTO introduces RGBW LED wall tiles
  • What took so long?
• Chris Stuba in memoriam
• Tea Time
  • 512A. When do we just start running ethernet? Or wireless? (Scary)
• Lighting Trivia
  • Craig stops caring about decades-old copyright law, and Alex gets it right
• Lighting Term of the Day
  • Mafia Block
  • We choose to not think about the origin of the term too much

To all our brothers, sisters, and everyone else about to be impacted by the coming #&%storm, we stand beside you.

It's episode 045, a most inauspicious number. Last episode EVER...to be recorded on this beast of a Mac Pro tower from 2010. You've been good to me, CODA.

In this episode:

-The Robe iBolt. We also chat about laser sources in general, and opine as to why FDA treats them so -The Martin MAC Viper XIP -The CM BatteryStar Hoist -PLSN CONTROVERSY: is a FREE publication FORCING the little guy to PAY TO PLAY? Find out TONIGHT -Tea Time: Rendering workflows, part I of who knows -Lighting trivia: Craig gets it wrong. No, right! -Lighting Term of the Day: Egg Crate

It's the Lighting Nerds! Into Logic and out of it again in an actually reasonable amount of time, belive it or not. Though sort of unreasonable when it comes to how long it's been since we released. Don't forget to join the Discord:

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And hear other great pods at

lightingnerds.net. Update your bookmarks, folks. This episode is the one with the corrected audio.

• News
  • Cobra2: What's up at the FDA, exactly?
  • Martin MAC One
• Notable productions
  • Eras, which we'll discuss later
  • The Grammys, which we'll discuss...now
• Tea Time
  • The Eras Tour
• Lighting Trivia: Alex gets it wrong, but we've got a new drop for it
• Lighting Term of the Day: sACN: Craig struggles to remember an exponent of two.

Zounds! We're back again with a fresh helpin' of down-home, Wisconsin-grade minced oaths. We've got so much forking content to get through that if we don't get talking, we might driven to harder words like frickin' or shirtballs. At least there won't be any trolley problems.

In this episode:

• News items
  • The Ayrton Cobra
  • Unreal Engine pricing changes
  • Solotech founder in memoriam
• Designer chat
  • Renaissance Tour
• Tea Time
  • How do you like to distribute DMX?
• Lighting Trivia
• Lighting Term of the Day: Art-Net

During the time of holiday cheer, whatever you celebrate, may the light of truth and the warmth of love go with you in your hearts.

It's the Lighting Nerds, nerding out about lighting, of all things!

In this episode:

-The GLP X5 series, which uses four emitter colors...confusingly -The KL series profile - The passing of Richard "Nook" Schoenfeld - Tea Time: Thoughts about the grandMA 3. Spoiler alert: not all good! - Lighting term of the day: camlock, and to a lesser extent, a discussion of feeder - Lighting trivia: Alex and Craig both don't know it!

Hopefully we'll be back soon. Much love to y'all.

It's episode 041! Not episode 042. That's the next episode. You know, I made some really delicious brussels sprouts tonight, they were like...flavor sponges. They were SO GOOD with the mustard and maple sauce that I made. Anyway...where am I? Who are you people? This episode was recorded in March, so things are a teensy-tiny bit out of date, but stick with us, folks. We have some good stuff here to talk about. Starting with:

• Martin P3 5.3 is out
• Alex talks about CuePoints, Craig asks questions about it
• GLP X5 Wash
• Tea Time: should you carry your own gear onto shows?
• Lighting Term of the Day: Encoder

Lastly, our hearts go out to all those affected by the recent gun violence in our nation. Please visit everytown.org to help save lives.

Yeah, we still podcast. Sometimes. In this day and age of little work, sometimes we seem to have even less time to get together to pod. Certainly, it affects our motivation. But we have mustered some up for you, dear listeners, so let's dive into this year's week's episode.

• New fixtures: the Martin MAC Ultra
• Notable personnel movements: don't move, it's COVID.
• Garth Brooks cancels
• Notable stage designs: feat. NAZIS
• Tea Time: Spectacle vs Art: Backline Techs Weight In
• Lighting Trivia: First distributed networking?
• Lighting Term of the Day: Telescan

Because we suck at publishing, it's been a while. But here's a new episode, and it's 39, which is a LUCKY NUMBER. In this episode:

• The Chroma-Q thing that has some cool gears for focusing. Craig is amazed, because he's never seen that before, but apparently it's a thing
• Drafty 4.0: It's Drafty-er!
• Michael Strickland of Bandit Lites fighting for Teh Working Class
• Decentralized productions.
• Tea Time: General Device Type Format
• Lighting Trivia: Alex gets it right
• Lighting Term of the Day: PWM

It's our THIRTY EIGHTH episode. Craig has finally moved, and finally got this edited. Geez. Two locations, two webinars, and a broken lead pipe later...we are finally releasing this old thang. Anyway. In this episode:

• ChamSys MQ500
• Robe Tetra1
• grandMA3 OnPC XT
• Grant Imahara's death
• Tea Time: Controlling your cash flow
• Interview: Tucker Downs, color scientist
• Lighting trivia: Alex gets it wrong
• Lighting Term of the Day: lectern vs podium
• Squish

Hugs and kisses y'all. Register to vote. -C

Geeze, United States. We leave the room for ONE SECOND and everything goes up in flames, at times literally. To those who have asked: Craig is fine. (He lives in the Twin Cities, but all is well) In this episode:

• Alex and Craig talk about the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd
• New Gear: Robert Juliat Arthur, Luminex Lumicore, Digital Projection Satellite
• Notable Tours: Keene Cause and Effect tour
• Tea Time: Difficult Patrons, Part II: The Art Critic and The Phonophobe
• Lighting Trivia: Craig gets it...wrong.
• Lighting Term of the Day: Ballast

The credits thought today is brought to you by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article I.