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When you were in grade school, your teacher told you that you couldn't divide by zero, right? Your teacher lied to you. It's actually very simple.  

The new book from Professor John Huntington, "Show Networks & Control Systems" reminds me of my iPhone-each version is even better than the last. This one builds on the first three versions of "Control Systems for Live Entertainment," except this one is self-published, which means he had complete control over content, layout, size, and everything else. 

 

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"While I was visiting with Dan English at the Morpheus Lights booth at LDI sometime in the mid-2000s, he proudly pointed to the huge floor full of moving light vendors showing off their wares by shining every gobo pattern and color imaginable and wiggling them around and around, back and forth, and all sorts of directions not previously available through mass production prior to Morpheus/ShowCo's Panaspot/VariLite Revolution of the early '80s, or at all since the early attack of four Fantasee Cyklops in the early 70s. 

"I stand by this ideal: If an artists contract is persuasive enough to make a dozen people jump through hoops ensuring that nothing but green M&M's are available back stage...

then it stands to reason that if the very same contract included language which demanded that the stage structure be constructed in a manner consistent with existing codes, all engineering documents are current and applicable, an emergency action plan be determined and disseminated prior to the opening of doors, a private meteorological service be monitoring the site and a qualified neutral show stop person be identified and empowered to call the show then we would have the beginnings of the kind of verifiable accountability missing in the field today.

 

"For decades the artist contracts have been the catalyst for many an unnecessary need, shouldn't they also then be the initial starting point of the dialog ensuring life safety?

It's simple; build it properly, have your emergency plans in place, prove it." 

 

Jim Digby, production manager (Linkin Park) and executive director of the Event Safety Alliance.