HiEverybody There is a technical position at Medialon in Miami. For those who love show control and want to be involved in programming and supporting our ...
looking for a simple solution to controlling 24 channels as a chase, and if possible to have it stand alone, and change to different sequence for 3 to 5...
... Our 4201 lighting controller does that sort of thing just fine. See the Sculpture application note on our web page for an example of this. You'd still...
Does anyone have any info on the gear used for the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony? Obviously it was a LED screen for the main arena floor but apparently 110...
Mal Padgett
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Aug 11, 2008 12:46 am
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... I didn't see it but from what I heard the talent just had switches and wireless receive-only headsets. Simple as an AM "transistor" radio with an ear bud....
Holy Moley wotta show! I'm stunned this list isn't ablaze with how they did... well, everything they did. Thoughts, anyone? -- Chris G....
Chris Grigg
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Aug 11, 2008 2:14 am
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... I wrote a little blog entry on it this morning... It was very impressive, but everything seemed pretty straightforward technically. Thousands of people...
(Oy, teach me to fetch the list before posting to it. Sorry for the crossed thread!!) The way the suit color changed as each performer left the bird formation...
Chris Grigg
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Aug 11, 2008 2:25 am
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Didn't see it, but was told by a client on Friday that they provided a Br-miniBrick8 to control a couple of giant Tesla coils. I think he said they were 20...
Doug Mobley
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Aug 11, 2008 3:00 am
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Do you need dimmed or on/off control of the lights? A Br-miniBrick8 can spit out DMX to any standard dimmers if you need it to fade the lights in and out as...
Doug Mobley
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Aug 11, 2008 3:07 am
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... Not that I know of. Most of our stuff is pretty high tech for the Chinese - this is confirmed whenever we do a job over there. My favourite story is our ...
... If you look carefully, it seems that they were just turning on when they crossed a boundary. A few people were early/late, and a few didn't work. ... I...
... Yup. That's the chinese approach, if the do it on their own, keep the tech simple and use huge amounts of incredibly rehearsed manpower. -- Hado Hein,...
This is an interesting topic. I agree with you two with my experience in Beijing just before the opening. I was involved in building a kind of museum, GE...
at the very beginning during the countdown, there were some mistakes especially in the western numbers. but they were always corrected in a matter of a split...
I could swear that in some shots prior to that reveal I saw scissor jacks and pneumatic cylinders/actuators. I was pausing by DVR and going frame by frame to...
Found some coverage on the web last night. I think maybe this was not an off-the-shelf show -- more like mil/gov stuff! "• The LED screen at the center of...
Chris Grigg
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Aug 11, 2008 7:41 pm
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Apparently there was a blue screen of death in one of the video servers, I linked to the gizmodo entry from my blog at: ...
Hi, Most of them are members of the chinese forces (they have not only soldiers, they have artist groups, too) The LEDs in the drums were batterypowered and...
... I can't find it now but there is a photo like this: http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/olympics/gallery/08_08_08_opening_ceremony?pg=32 but from the...
... Based on this, that sounds about right, the producers of all new shows, large or small, would dread to be accused of doing one 'off-the-shelf' since they...
The nerds guessing about what's going on on the Gzmodo thread is the best bit. I presume a digital light died and ended up pointing right at it's home position...
... I think the shot you might be looking for is here: http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/oly_08_08/oly12.jpg referenced from ...
For some reason I read the movable type thing as being people driven right from the start. But then, I've seem some very similar but far more mechanical...
PLSN article: The opening ceremonies for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games at Beijing National Stadium, a.k.a. the "Bird's Nest," used the largest automated...
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