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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Moving Light Madness 2025 // Results & Analysis
www.limelightwired.com: Forget the basketball courts; the real action's happening right here on @LimeLightWired. We are here to celebrate the brilliance of 64 top-tier moving lights, all vying for the coveted title of ultimate fixture.
This is so cool! I love all the creative ways that various arts groups make good natured spoofs on the college basketball phenomenon of March Madness. The first one I became aware of was the March Mania bracket of John Philips Sousa marches. My high school band teacher would play the day’s marches for us and have us vote on which one we thought should win, then reveal which one actually won. It was great fun! This theatre tech version with lighting equipment is so creative and fun. I would be curious to know the criteria upon which the voters judge the fixtures, and if there are common priorities across the data pool. It would be really fun if each of the technical disciplines did similar brackets with things relevant to their field. Sound could do speakers or mics, costumes could be fabrics, scenic could do wood or perhaps tools, etc. This is such a fun idea!
Ooh I love niche category competitions! Some of my other favorites are definitely less practical though, like recently I saw jan Misali doing a series of polls to determine the best keyboard character(?), and yesterday I watched a video about a competition where people enter different waters and then judges determine the best waters. I’ll be excited how this one turns out. I am very amused by the fact that the parcan beat out ETC SolaPix, though it’s really not surprising at all. I think just the other day I tried and failed to find the roadcase for a SoD Robe iForte that was on Ghosts during strike so cool to see that fixture in the wild. The beam bracket is the one I have the absolute least familiarity with. I don’t think I’ve ever used a beam fixture in my entire life because they just really don’t have a ton of applications in theatre. Perhaps one day … Anyway I hope the parcan holds out for a few more rounds.
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This is so cool! I love all the creative ways that various arts groups make good natured spoofs on the college basketball phenomenon of March Madness. The first one I became aware of was the March Mania bracket of John Philips Sousa marches. My high school band teacher would play the day’s marches for us and have us vote on which one we thought should win, then reveal which one actually won. It was great fun! This theatre tech version with lighting equipment is so creative and fun. I would be curious to know the criteria upon which the voters judge the fixtures, and if there are common priorities across the data pool. It would be really fun if each of the technical disciplines did similar brackets with things relevant to their field. Sound could do speakers or mics, costumes could be fabrics, scenic could do wood or perhaps tools, etc. This is such a fun idea!
Ooh I love niche category competitions! Some of my other favorites are definitely less practical though, like recently I saw jan Misali doing a series of polls to determine the best keyboard character(?), and yesterday I watched a video about a competition where people enter different waters and then judges determine the best waters. I’ll be excited how this one turns out. I am very amused by the fact that the parcan beat out ETC SolaPix, though it’s really not surprising at all. I think just the other day I tried and failed to find the roadcase for a SoD Robe iForte that was on Ghosts during strike so cool to see that fixture in the wild. The beam bracket is the one I have the absolute least familiarity with. I don’t think I’ve ever used a beam fixture in my entire life because they just really don’t have a ton of applications in theatre. Perhaps one day … Anyway I hope the parcan holds out for a few more rounds.
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