Lasers are back!

Check out this vid that Peter Kirkup from Cooper Controls put together. It's a montage of images from LDI last weekend.

CAST Software Offers wysiwyg to Students at 90% Savings

I suppose this could be considered an early Black Friday Deal.

In a special promotion, CAST Software is offering Wysiwyg Perform Special Student Edition at a 90% discount compared to the full professional version. Cast will also credit the pprice toward the purchase of the full professional version of wysiwyg Design or Perform.
The offer is available only to students and academic institutions. Applying students and schools must be properly registered with Cast to qualify. The school registration form can be obtained from Cast -- email to learn@cast-soft.com. Perform SSE comes with 1,000 channel capabilities and will be watermarked "for educational use only." This is a time-limited offer, available only while supplies last, on a first-come, first-served basis.

Call your local Barbizon office for more details. 866-502-2724.

More from LDI: RSC Light Lock

We grabbed a little video of the RSC lightlock in action in the Total Structures booth. It's pretty amazing what one can do with gyros. (no not the meat version... gyroscope)

Today we'll spend more time grabbing interesting images so to post, but stay tuned for a link to the Barbizon LDI Show Report. We have our team members scouring the floor for the the skinny on the new items on the floor. If you cannot wait until then check out iSquint.net's LDI 09 Flickr set.

LDI 2009 is up and running!

Here's a quick vid of LDI just as it was opening from the wings of the South hall @ the Orange County Convo Center. The haze was thick and the traffic was brisk on the show floor today. We saw a lot of old friends roaming around seeing the latest and greatest in the entertainment lighting industry. For a great collection of show pics of the show floor check out iSquint's 2009 Flicker set. I hope to get a little more video tomorrow for you all to see of some of the standout items.

LDI Show floor opens today

When we left the hall last night to go to the ESTA dinner there was still a fair amount to be done by some of the exhibitors. But we're production people, I know that when I walk in this morning everything will be ready and the HVAC will be on!! (It was cooler on the dock than in the hall.)

If you are here or even close we'll be here until Sunday with the rest of the industry showing the latest and greatest. Barbizon will be in booth 1127

We'll be posting some of the highlights of the weekend and compiling news for our annual show report that we'll get posted ASAP.

If you need a show floor pass you can click here.

Oh and by the way we're not the same Barbizon having meetings @ the Rosen Plaza. Yup.. the modeling company is also in the main conference hotel looking for 'talent'.

And no, we didn't do their lighting.

LDI Opens in less than a week!

The LDI show floor will have been open for a day already by this time next week and we'll be there covering what manufacturers are showing. There will be posts here as well as a complete compilation in our annual show report.

A few teasers we've gotten via email this week:

• ETC will be raising the bar (think rigging)
• Strong has an 'illuminating' exterior fixture (LED)
• Apollo Design Tech is jumping into the LED and fixture game
• A very economical opto splitter from ENTTEC
• Martin and Wybron have RADAR

Here's the flier we got from Apollo.

Stay Tuned.

Create Your Perfect Bag and win a bunch of Stuff!

KATA invites you to design your dream photo bag and submit it to the challenge.

Each bag will be reviewed by a professional panel of judges. The best design will be selected as the winner, hand built exclusively for the designer and packed full of high-end photo equipment:

• Canon 5D mk II body
• 2 Canon Lenses (24-105 EF L IS USM & 70-200 F/4.0 USM)
• Gitzo Traveler kit (tripod+ head)
• Litepanels MICROPRO

Winners of the second and third prize categories will win a Kata bag packed with gear worth $4000 and $3000 respectively. Entries close on March 1st, 2010.

For more info http://www.dreambagchallenge.com/
Isn't that a dream come true?!

Holy Crap! Robert Juliat LED Profile @ LDI

This will be interesting to see!

Preview it on YouTube..

More info to come.

Welcome to Hell's Kitchen Mr. President.

New Yorkers are pretty used to Presidential gridlock, but the Barbizon Electric office on 55th Street experienced it first hand Tuesday.

When President Obama was in town for the day his motorcade route came directly in front of our offices.

"The entire street was barricaded off for the day and two tow trucks were parked on the block. If a car even looked like it was going to stop it was hooked up and sent to the tow lot!" commented Barbizon's fearless leader Jonathan Resnick.

Our (Barbizon's) President (You can also see him on the curb right next to the NYC officer in the pics below) went out to greet Obama hoping he might stop by to discuss lighting techniques, but it seemed the leader of the free world's schedule was pretty packed.