White Light is lending its support to Omnibus Clapham, a charity established with the aim of turning the former library of Clapham, south-west London, into an arts performance hub for the community. With Clapham’s existing library facilities due to relocate to a new building, part of a leisure and residential complex, in 2012, future plans for the traditional library building have been … [Read more...]
New Purchasing Option For FocusTrack
FocusTrack, the production lighting documentation system, now has a new purchasing option designed to make it even more accessible than before. FocusTrack's new Single Show option enables the purchase of FocusTrack for one single production for a cost of just £245 ($375). This compares to the original Full FocusTrack licence at £400 ($600). That licensing option is still available for those … [Read more...]
Entertainment In Production: Now Available For E-Readers!
Writer and lighting programmer & designer Rob Halliday's books Entertainment In Production vols 1 and 2 are now available to those who prefer their reading in electronic form, through Amazon's Kindle Store. This means that the books are available not only to readers using Amazon's Kindle, but also to those using the Kindle software on Apple's iPad and iPhone, on Blackberries, and on PCs and … [Read more...]
FocusTrack 2.100, with QuickFocus, available now!
The team behind lighting documentation software FocusTrack have marked the new year by announcing the release of FocusTrack 2.100. Continuing to respond to the needs of lighting professionals, the new version adds QuickFocus, a new, dual-purpose and invaluable function for documenting and then viewing the use of each moving light in each cue. "FocusTrack was conceived as a way of … [Read more...]
The force is with ETC
ETC's revolutionary moving light, the Source Four Revolution, has been enjoying a short run at New York's Broadhurst Theatre, where lead actor Jude Law decided it looks like a Star Wars character! Programmer Rob Halliday says: "The fixtures were only a short distance above Jude's head, and when they were in the reset position, pointing straight down, he thought he was going to bump his head on … [Read more...]
