The Lighting Nerds

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It's Episode 047, folks. A very auspicious number. If you know, you know.

In this Episode:

GLP makes some new stuff!

The commodification of gear: everyone has their own version of the thing, Craig kinda misses unique lights, but understands the market forces at work.

James Foster is the new head of ETC. ETC cares about Hog. They even told us so!

Alex did a big show called Vivid

Tea Time: console layout, fixture numbers, layouts, etc

Lighting Trivia: Alex gets it right

Lighting Term of the Day: Fresnel

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Published: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:15:00 +0000

Audio file: Episode 046 CRI doesn't matter for anything.mp3

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

[JOIN THE FRIGGIN DISCORD, NERD](https://discord.gg/vGPDbhU)

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.

> "A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?...It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity."

- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "The Other America," 1968

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Published: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:04:00 +0000

Audio file: Episode 045 And It Also Powers Your Sawzall.mp3

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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

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Published: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:20:00 +0000

Audio file: Episode 044 Where All the Cars Were, Man.mp3

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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:

https://discord.gg/vGPDbhU

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.

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Published: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 01:40:00 +0000

Audio file: Episode 043 - Gosh.mp3

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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.

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Published: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:59:00 +0000

Audio file: Episode 042 - It's A Hundred Grand Panini Press.mp3

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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.

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Published: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:46:09 +0000

Audio file: Episode 041 - Even Squarespace Wont' Touch Us.mp3

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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.

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.

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Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:42:51 +0000

Audio file: Episode 040 - Whatever the Average Weight of a Goat Was.mp3

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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

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Published: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 20:05:09 +0000

Audio file: Episode 039 There Are Actually Wizards Who Create These Files In the Nether Realm.mp3

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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