Episode 014 – Chemistry Nerds

We’ve got everything this week: Craig’s crappy on-location audio, new lights, quizzes, we’re like four days late, and more!

• News items:
  • Elation releases
    • A moving head wash with lots of colors, the Platinum 7
    • An LED PAR that combines all the sources and zooms
    • The eMotion, a moving head projector
    • The Sniper Pro, a cool laser-like effect
  • Martin releases the Axiom, and I totally saw it in action
  • Philips tries to spin off 25% of their entertainment lighting business, since they couldn’t find a buyer for the whole thing
  • Hamilton gets 16 Tony Award nominations
• The science of the health effects of haze. tl;dr, we’re all gonna be fine.
• Lighting Design, Console, and Programming Theory: we walk through how WE would program the famous song “Back in Black” by AC/DC. As it turns out, we’re the same person.
• Lighting term of the day: cable bridge.
• Lighting quiz: Gavin gets it right!

Links to the studies and whatnot cited about haze:

• Health Effects Evaluation of Theatrical Smoke, Haze and Pyrotechnics This is the big study.
• Smoke and Haze Testing – Time and Distance Guidelines Time and distance tables from the AEA.
• Glycol, Glycerin, and Oil Fog Reading List From ESTA.
  
• HETA 90-355-2449