The Lighting Nerds
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 046: CRI doesn't matter for anything
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you hear about the three holes in the ground? Well, well, well... JOIN THE FRIGGIN DISCORD, NERD In this episode: Hear the sounds of hope and ant...
Episode 045: And It Also Powers Your Sawzall
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's episode 045, a most inauspicious number. Last episode EVER...to be recorded on this beast of a Mac Pro tower from 2010. You've been good to me, C...
Episode 044: Where All the Cars Were, Man?
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Lighting Nerds! Into Logic and out of it again in an actually reasonable amount of time, belive it or not. Though sort of unreasonable when i...
Episode 043 - Gosh
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zounds! We're back again with a fresh helpin' of down-home, Wisconsin-grade minced oaths. We've got so much forking content to get through that if we ...
Episode 042 - It's A Hundred Grand Panini Press
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Lighting Nerds, nerding out about lighting, of all things! In this episode: -The GLP X5 series, which uses four emitter colors...confusingly ...
Episode 041 - Even Squarespace Wont' Touch Us
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's episode 041! Not episode 042. That's the next episode. You know, I made some really delicious brussels sprouts tonight, they were like...flavor s...
Episode 040 - Whatever the Average Weight of a Goat Was
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yeah, we still podcast. Sometimes. In this day and age of little work, sometimes we seem to have even less time to get together to pod. Certainly, it ...
Episode 039: There Are Actually Wizards Who Create These Files In the Nether Realm
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Because we suck at publishing, it's been a while. But here's a new episode, and it's 39, which is a LUCKY NUMBER. In this episode: The Chroma-Q thing...
Episode 038 - I Got A Rock
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's our THIRTY EIGHTH episode. Craig has finally moved, and finally got this edited. Geez. Two locations, two webinars, and a broken lead pipe later....
Episode 037 - That Covers Opening Banter
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Geeze, United States. We leave the room for ONE SECOND and everything goes up in flames, at times literally. To those who have asked: Craig is fine. (...
Episode 036 - Defer to Llama on All the Tough Topics
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of the global pandemic, we offer you this commentary on the state of the lighting industry. I have very few pithy comments this week, bec...
Episode 035 - Today's Keyword is COVID
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yeah, we know you haven't thought about COVID-19 for like...ten seconds, but here we are anyway, talking about it. At least, like, a little. It's the ...
Episode 034 - Your New Pocket Friend
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's a Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Las Posadas/Eid-al-Adha/Diwali/Festivus miracle! An episode: shiny, new, episode 034. Curl up in front of the fire, ...
Episode 033 - Like If Somebody Shaved A Zebra
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with the hackneyed animal similes. In this episode: The Chauvet Maverick MK3 We talk about having network connectivity such as sACN...
Episode 032 - Shooting At X-Wings Coming Down the Trench
03 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's The Lighting Nerds, episode 032. That's an exponent of 8, which makes this episode extra-special. We also have Jose, my old L2 from Halsey, filli...
Episode 031 - I'm Really Doing Host Effacing Right Now
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's Episode 031! Craig and Alex are back, Craig had a baby. Well, his partner did anyway. It's the Episode with the title card you'll have to listen ...
Episode 030 - To Use A Millennial Phrase, It Just Triggers Me
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Woah, two eps in the space of a month? Stop the presses! Hold the phone! Pet the hedgehog! Wat? In this episode, Alexander is back: Industry news...
Episode 029 - Don't Forget the Ribbon Dancers, Craig
26 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Lighting Nerds, first ep of 2019. That's twenty-nineteen. Special guest co-host, Chas! In this Episode: ROE Vanish V8 LED screen New Foll...
Episode 028 - Their Children Look Like Something Out of Wicked
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Lighting Nerds! Your go-to source for slightly up-to-date lighting information! In this episode: News Items The Vari-Lite VL10 WashBeam Cir...
Episode 027 - It's All Good For You, Timecode Boy
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We're still not dead yet! Craig's back from Halsey, and Alex is done with his move. We're here to chew gum and make podcasts, and we're stock full of...
Episode 025 - Taken Down Faster Than A Jake Paul Video
11 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's the TWENTY-FIFTH EPISODE of Lighting Nerds! In this episode, we keep Alex around, joke (or do we??) about being corporate shills, and talk about ...
Episode 024 - Sweet, Sweet Corporate Hack Dollars
17 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's the one with Brad Schiller! Fresh off the newly-reinstalled Silver Mac Tower of Audio is Episode 024 of The Lighting Nerds. In this "ep": New...
Episode 023 - Frightening for Something You Put in Your Mouth
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've fixed our audio! Thanks to everyone who sent me pineapples, I really appreciate it. Our title this time references electric toothbrushes, peo...
Episode 022 - Slightly Tweak Your Colors
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Does anybody read these? If any of you are reading this, shoot me a email / DM / tag me with "pineapple". The Lighting Nerds! We're still around. T...
Episode 021 - A Whole New World
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhat approaching a normal release schedule, I hereby...release a new episode. Wherein I bungle a movie reference. In this episode: News items ...
Episode 020 - Clever Title Name
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Remember when I said we'd be back soon? I lied. But Josh is back, and Gavin is not. It's Lighting Nerds, and we're still doing this! In this epi...
Episode 019 - Gravity Boots In a Dryer
13 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I'm back from LDI, Gavin is back from Europe and we're both seriously tossing around the idea of emigrating straight back to the shores of Britain! #e...
Episode 018 - Fixture-tastic!
12 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dear interwebs, we promise never to be away this long again. If two or more of us aren't available, we'll do an episode anyway. Maybe a short one, may...
Episode 017 - In Which We Are Slightly Meandering
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Hot off the presses, it's a new episode of Lighting Nerds. We did this one right in the middle of being way distracted by houses, touring, and honey-d...
Episode 016 - One From the Road
25 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's tour season, and Gavin and I are on the road and subsequently exhausted. But we keep making this for you, because, well, that's what we do. Anywa...
Episode 015 - A Little Bit Helmholtz, A Little Bit Kohlrausch
20 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the restorative powers of angry e-mails, we're back after a month hiatus! Whew! Let's get this show on the road! Guest star: Rowboat, the m...
We're not dead yet!
16 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Folks might be wonderin' about us.
Episode 014 - Chemistry Nerds
19 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We've got everything this week: Craig's crappy on-location audio, new lights, quizzes, we're like a week late, and more! News items: Elation rele...
Episode 013 - Terminate Your DMX runs, or, you know, don't
07 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Boy howdy, I was late on that one. But your loss is our, uh, gain? Or something like that. Anyway. In this episode: Ayrton makes cool stuff: https...
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29 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Hello lighting nerds! Sorry that this isn't the podcast, it's me telling you you're gonna have to wait until I can get this thing edited. Boo! Hiss! D...
Episode 012 - Hi, my name is Gavin, and I'm addicted to gobos
14 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gavin admits some...personal shortcomings, namely, his obsession with tiny pieces of metal and glass that change the shape of a light...
Episode 011 - Colorful Metaphors for Socopex
30 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
An on-time episode! It's like Christmas in March! In this episode: Gavin and Craig talk about their current projects. Craig does lights for Ala...
Episode 010 - We Get Emails
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Geeze, enough with the late episodes, Craig! I was prepping a new rig and programming video and lighting alike and had two shows this weekend. Audio q...
Episode 009 - Colors, colors everywhere
03 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We're back, 24 hours late this time because one of us - not saying who but his name rhymes with KAVIN - is cavorting about Europe, surrounded by histo...
Episode 008 - Incandescent Resurrection!
17 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Oh man, incandescent is back, and it's more efficient efficacious than ever, thanks to some MIT braniacs and the power of TEENY TINY THINGS. In this ...
Episode 007 - On Her Majesty's Color Quality Scale
03 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Hi guys! I'm trying some new things with the audio levels, trying to keep stuff around where most other podcasts are. So maybe you'll notice some chan...
Episode 006 - Return of the LED Ellipsoidal
22 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Holy cow, two days late this time? Shame on us. We had some audio issues, okay? OKAY?!? Episode VI ETC's Source 4WRD, an LED retrofit The Ela...
Episode 005 - Only fourteen hours late
07 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Between having a nasty upper respiratory infection (just what you want when you're a podcaster) gigging over New Years, and moving to different houses...
Episode 004 - A positive upward spiral of creativity!
24 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's the holiday season! In this episode of Lighting Nerds: Happy birthday Columbus McKinnon, visit their blog at: http://blog.cmworks.com/ ...
Episode 003 - You're (not) a rigger, Harry
10 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: History and terminology: Fresnel lenses Here's a diagram for your enjoyment: http://www.uq.edu.au/_School_Science_Lessons/27.5....
Episode 002 - Vive la France!
26 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: History and terminology: Limelight Tech: LDI products: The PRG Ground Control remote followspot, the Martin Atomic 3000 LED Desig...
Episode 001 - The Pressure's On! (Pilot)
11 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: History and terminology: "Leko" lights Tech: Lua scripting Lime and mint LEDs The Clay Paky Mythos Links: TimeLord's Lua scr...