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"Highly enamored of Resolume's new Arena 4. If you think of d3 or Hippo as the Ferrari, this is the VW GTI of media serving. Wicked & cheap." - from Facebook
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Upcoming Classes
| Entertainment Electricity, Power Distribution, and Controls
Las Vegas
September 24, 25, 26, 2012
Entertainment Electrics Hands-on Workshop with Richard Cadena - New Orleans
August 3, 2012
The Principles of Arena Rigging
Sept. 27-29, 2012
Entertainment Electricity, Power Distribution, and Controls
Los Angeles |
The Road Down Under
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APT is hitting the road dow n under in 20 13. Richard Cadena will be joining the CX Road show, offering electrics and control systems classes from Perth to Brisbane next February, 2013. The classes will be offered in the following locations:
CX ROADSHOW 2013 ITINERARY- PERTH Thursday 14th February Perth Hyatt
- ADELAIDE Monday 18th February Adelaide Convention Centre
- MELBOURNE Wednesday 20th February Melbourne Convention Centre
- CANBERRA Friday 22nd February National Convention Centre
- SYDNEY Monday 25th February The Concourse
- BRISBANE Wednesday 27th February Brisbane Convention Centre
For more information, visit www.APTXL.com or email us. |
| Technology and Education | | Education Without the Arts?
 "Without the connection to our emotions that music, dance, visual art, and drama provide, students' ability to cultivate their right-brain "soft skills" ends up being stunted. In a global society that needs people with the emotional intelligence to have both personal and working relationships with people from diverse cultures-and the ability to think creatively and entrepreneurially-that means denying kids access to the arts has less-than-desirable consequences." - from Good Education editor Liz Dwyer in an article entitled, "Without the Arts, It's Not Education."
Schools Kill Creativity?  The single most viewed video on the popular website Ted.com is Sir Ken Robinson's talk from February 2006 titled "Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity." To watch the video, click here. |
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| Open Aperture | | Welding Cable and the NEC
 Welding cable is rated for use with up to 600 volts, the insulation is rated 105°C, it's very flexible, its jacket is oil- and weather-resistant and it's available in AWG sizes up to 500 MCM. So why not use it as feeder cable?
The NEC doesn't recognize welding cable for general wiring. Manufacturers specify that it is for use with welding machines, and it's not designed to be used as continuous duty cable.
Ken Vannice of Leviton wrote an excellent article about the use of portable cords and cables in the live event production industry. To read the article, click here.
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| Where Design & Technology Intersect | |
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The art of applied technology.
Augmented reality lives at the intersection of art and technology. Better and faster computers are lowering the bar for video production technology, and video artists are pushing the envelope, blurring the lines between what's real and what's not. This video profiles some of the artists at the forefront of augmented reality and video mapping.
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Sustainability & Occupational Safety
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Keeping Shows Safe
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"Over 11,000 shows were successfully produced without incident....there were five catastrophic events around the world where fans were critically injured or perished; one incident of this nature is too many."
- Jim Digby, production manager (Linkin Park) and executive director of the Event Safety Alliance.
In May of this year, Ray Waddell of Billboard Magazine wrote an article about the Event Safety Alliance. Today, the ESA is working to create a US version of the "Purple Guide," the Event Safety Guide from the UK. Check out ESA's web site at www.eventsafetyalliance.org.
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| Hahaha | | | The Tech
"I know you've been bounced around in a dark truck and then strangers beat you with a hammer, but right now I need you to get centered. You have to be grounded."
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