It was another large corporate show. Huge arena. We even had a decent budget. How often does that happen? Yeah, we had a lot of lighting and video stuff to go along with a lot of expensive talent. There were a lot of great “moments.” Most of them were crap. Corporate cheerleading, you know? Sell, sell, sell.

During the main show, the LED screens came alive with specially designed custom content, dynamic colors, videos, and all kinds of creative and beautiful squiggly things. Yes, it…

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             It is widely known to all that gigs don’t last…

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     I like to think that I have a good "eye". That's a term us designers adhere to when determining if one of our colleagues can actually recognize a tasty scene on stage. oThey have no "eye" if they've just thrown some crap up to create a different look.  I think LD's in general are often the worst critics of their piers' shows (or for that sake the biggest supporters as well). 

    I doubt anyone has seen a Roy Bennet show and said "That was crap", but I could be wrong. I'd like to…

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In the United States Bureau of Energy (DOE) has released a report on the LED, CFL and incandescent life cycle energy consumption are analyzed and compared. Reports to existing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) literature as the basis, covering manufacturing, transport, use and processing of the whole process, the following conclusions:



1, The average life cycle, the LED bulbs and CFL energy consumption is almost the same, about 39 MJ per functional unit (functional unit refers to…

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Good research coordinating body SKIL's report remarked that 2012 the world LED ceiling light manufacturing capacity will grow 12 percent when compared with 2011, it really is required to reach 3 million, of which, around Taiwan accounting for about 22 percent, which ranked first.

SKIL think, take advantage of the LED TV increasingly common, coupled with the costa rica government of mainland China's subsidy policy as well as the economic stimulus bundle funding support, high -brightness LED… Continue