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Meow Wolf – Santa Fe, New Mexico

TOPICS:

• John Huntington InterCue pt2 – author • storm chaser • photographer.

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John Huntington is a Professor of Entertainment Technology at New York City College of Technology, also known as Citytech, which is part of CUNY. Through his company Zircon Designs, Huntington freelances as an author, entertainment and show control systems consultant, and sound designer/engineer. He is also an award-winning photographer.

Huntington’s book Show Networks and Control Systems is the leading book in the field. The book was first published as Control Systems for Live Entertainment by Focal Press in 1994, and was revised in 2000 and 2007. In 2012, Huntington started self publishing the book, renamed it, and extensively expanded the networking coverage.

QUOTE:

The most technilogically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

~Norrupt Fry

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• John Huntington InterCue pt1 – author • storm chaser • photographer.

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John Huntington is a Professor of Entertainment Technology at New York City College of Technology, also known as Citytech, which is part of CUNY. Through his company Zircon Designs, Huntington freelances as an author, entertainment and show control systems consultant, and sound designer/engineer. He is also an award-winning photographer.

Huntington’s book Show Networks and Control Systems is the leading book in the field. The book was first published as Control Systems for Live Entertainment by Focal Press in 1994, and was revised in 2000 and 2007. In 2012, Huntington started self publishing the book, renamed it, and extensively expanded the networking coverage.

QUOTE:

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do, doesn’t mean it’s useless.

~Thomas Edison

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• Juergen Kienhoefer InterCue – Wireless Cables Inc. : Long range bluetooth extenders and more…

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Based in San Jose, California, Wireless Cables Inc. designs, manufactures and sells patented long-range Bluetooth®-based wireless devices for communication with smartphones, tablets, PCs under the brand name AIRcable™.

Their objective to make products that use Bluetooth technology to eliminate the difficulties, inconveniences and costs associated with connecting devices by cables, or wires. Their products are designed to be easy to set up and get started. No complex wireless connection software or intimate knowledge of Bluetooth is required to use them. Their vision is to make life simpler for people through insightful applications of emerging technologies.

QUOTE:

TV and the internet are good, because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

~Douglas Copeland

 

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• Dave Mickey interviews USITT participants.

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Founded in 1960, USITT is an organization to promote dialogue, research, and learning among practitioners of theatre design and technology.

Today it has grown to include members at all levels of their careers and has embraced the new technologies being used in entertainment.  USITT is now the leader in life-long learning opportunities for the entertainment design and technology industry.

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• Sooner Routhier InterCue – Rock N Roll Lighting Designer

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Sooner Routhier – Lighting Designer has worked with Rage Against the Machine, The All American Rejects, Rhianna, and Bon Jovi.  As a production designer, Sooner has created video, scenic, pyro, and lighting designs for many artists including Motley Crue, Disturbed and most recently, KISS.  In 2012 she had the privilege of designing the lighting for eight sold out Jay Z shows to open the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY.  More recently, she worked with Annerin Productions as a lighting and scenic designer for their production of the Australian Bee Gees.

Video of Aryton Lighting in Action

QUOTE:

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

~Marie Curie

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• Dave Smith (The Inventor of MIDI) InterCue
• Devamp Madness
• Best Video Transport Methods

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QUOTE:

“The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.”

― Volker Grassmuck

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Justino Zoppe InterCue. The Magic of Show Control
• RS-232 Serial Control of Projectors

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QUOTE:

“Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

-Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldbloom) Jurassic Park

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• Enttec Americas InterCue.

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QUOTE:

“Arts technology, used appropriately, gives people magic powers for making art. It doesn’t replace them.”
-Chris Ashworth

Enttec is the leading manufacturer of DMX interfaces and LED lighting products. With lots of tools and options to choose from you can make your lighting vision a reality.

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• Propared InterCue & Dave Mikey’s Internet Disaster Story.

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  • • Propared: Revolutionary Project Management Software for Event Professionals

QUOTE:

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Meet Helix Propared™ official moral officier.

Meet Helix
Propared™ chief morale officier.

Propared is software for project management for live event professionals. Offering customized productivity solutions that are useful, flexible, and efficient.

We interview CEO Ryan Kirk and COO Melissa Johnston and learn more about this fascinating software and the future of show production.

 

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• Drew Dalzell InterCue & The Collaborator Party.

FAQ THE CUE:

  • • More UDP vs TCP
  • • Best Video Setup for Students

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QUOTE:

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

― Laurie Anderson

 

Drew Dalzell is an award winning sound designer, show control programmer, and theatrical consultant. His experience encompasses theme parks, cruise ships, theatre, television, film, industrials, and installations. Drew’s multidisciplinary skill set—which ranges from lighting, sound, and set design to stage management, direction, and show control programming—uniquely qualifies him to oversee large-scale productions. In themed entertainment, Drew has worked for Universal Studios, Walt Disney Imagineering, Disney Creative Entertainment, Nickelodeon Recreation, and Paramount Parks, among others. He has done extensive sound and show control work for Universal Studios Hollywood, most notably Halloween Horror Nights 2006-2012. For Nickelodeon Resorts, Drew acted as the show control programmer and technical systems consultant for multiple shows at the Nick Hotel.

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• Marcus Ranum InterCue & Lemur Review.

THE CUE REVIEW:

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QUOTE:

The real danger is not that computers will start to think like man, it’s that man will start to think like computers.
– Sydney Harris

Marcus J. Ranum is a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. He is recognized as an early innovator in firewall technology, and the implementor of the first commercial firewall product. Since the late 1980’s, he has designed a number of groundbreaking security products including the DEC SEAL, the TIS firewall toolkit, the Gauntlet firewall, and NFR’s Network Flight Recorder intrusion detection system. He has been involved in every level of operations of a security product business, from developer, to founder and CEO of NFR. Marcus has served as a consultant to many FORTUNE 500 firms and national governments, as well as serving as a guest lecturer and instructor at numerous high-tech conferences. In 2001, he was awarded the TISC “Clue” award for service to the security community, and the ISSA Lifetime Achievement Award. Marcus is Chief Of Security for Tenable Security, Inc., where he is responsible for research in open source logging tools, and product training. He serves as a technology advisor to a number of start-ups, established concerns, and venture capital groups.

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Sam Kusnetz InterCue & Go Box Review.

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QUOTE:

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
– Mark Kennedy (Author)

Sam Kusnetz has been designing, composing, photographing, filming, stage managing, and solving all manner of theatrical challenges for nearly twenty years. He has toured nationally and internationally with acclaimed physical theater companies Imago Theater and Do Jump!, designed sound Off-Broadway at the New Victory, the Duke on 42nd Street, and the Mint Theater, and regionally at Provincetown Theater and Portland Center Stage, where he earned a Drammy Award for his design of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. At Brown University, his alma mater, Sam designed sound for the world premiere of Jordan Harrison’s Kid Simple. As an assistant and associate designer, Sam has worked with established and respected designers such as David Van Tieghem, Leah Gelpe, Bart Fasbender, Jeremy Lee, and Darron West. His input has helped guide sound system designs at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow theater and the Pershing Square Signature Center.

Sam is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, the union of professional theatrical designers and scenic artists.

Mic Pools: The QLab Cookbook

Mic Pools: The QLab Cookbook

TOPICS:

• InterCue with QLab guru Mic Pool.•

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• Mic Pool’s QLab Cookbook.

• Resolume VJ Software.

• Lemur: Pro MIDI and OSC controller.

Catalyst Media Server.

Fifty Nine Productions: Video Mapping

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QUOTE:

We are stuck with technology, when what we really want, is just stuff that works.
– Douglas Adams (Author)

TOPICS:

• Intercue with QLab 3 Show Control author Jeremy Hopgood.

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QUOTE:

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. – John Lasseter (Director)

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Interview with Claude Heinz

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Product Review:

QLab Remote UPDATE.

FAQ The Cue:

How to prepare your Mac for a QLab Show.

Download the SetUp File.

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Quote:

The ultimate metaphoric sound is silence. If you can get the film to a place with no sound where there should be sound, the audience will crowd that silence with sounds and feelings of their own making, and they will, individually, answer the question of, “Why is it quiet?” If the slope to silence is at the right angle, you will get the audience to a strange and wonderful place where the film becomes their own creation in a way that is deeper than any other.

- Walter Murch

Axel Mulder of Infusion Systems

Axel Mulder of Infusion Systems

Topics:

  • Infusion Systems Interview with Axel Mulder
  • How to Take Over a Light Board with MIDI Show Control

Product Review:

Apple iPad

A remote, a interface, a back up system and more.

What do you use your iPad for?

  • Screens
  • TouchOSC
  • Music Playback
  • Remote Control
  • MidiBridge Device
  • QLab Remote

Disaster Stories:

MN – How to fry a Hog MIDI interface.

AS – Elephant Man- interlace glitching, main projector dying at photo call.

DM – Triple head, VGA to HDMI, screen turns green on crossfade

Quote:

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

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