| November 1st, 2011 | A large crowd of LDI2011 attendees and exhibitors gathered for the annual LDI awards ceremony and cocktail reception, held this year on Saturday, October 29 at 5:15pm in Orlando, FL, where LDI marked its 24th year. The Best Green Product Award (sponsored by Showman Fabricators): ArcSystem house light manufactured by [read more]
| September 9th, 2010 | At LDI in 2009 and at USITT 2010, there
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| May 1st, 2010 | Justin over at iSquint brings us this update on the Juliat LED Profile/Ellipsoidal/Focus-able instrument. I won’t ruin the surprise about the price here though….
Remember that “project” Robert Juliat showed off at LDI in a back room under special invite? Looks like the “project” has been turned into a final product
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| December 4th, 2009 | It goes without saying that the travel associated with our artist endeavors is not the most sustainable. I’ve been to so many conferences this last year, mostly traveling by plane. Next week I’m off to Europe where I’ll be staying in Copenhagen for COP15 and Wooloo.org‘s New Life Festival, but I’m
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| December 2nd, 2009 | http://vimeo.com/moogaloo
Bob Usdin of Showman Fabricators, who organized LDI Green Day and the awards for best green product and best green production at this last year’s show in Orlando, is seen here announcing the recipients of those awards.
As a judge for the awards I had the opportunity to get into some great
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| November 18th, 2009 | Scenic Designer David F. Weiner and Artistic Director Seema Sueko will be speaking — via skype — at the LDI Green Day Conference on Thursday, November 19 in Orlando, Florida. They’ll share the lastest versions of Mo`olelo’s Green Theater Choices Scorecards. You can read about the conference here: http://www.ldishow.com/LDI09/Public/Content.aspx?ID=1009691
You can download the latest Green
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| October 28th, 2009 | Reprinted from Live Design: “Creating Sustainable Theatres: Part 1″ by Curtis Kasefang, October 20, 2009
Following up on Bob Usdin’s excellent piece on the greening of the entertainment industry in the “Green Issue” (“How Green Is Green?” August 2008), I want to explore the broader picture, including the facility itself and
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| October 27th, 2009 | This excerpt from Curtis Kasefang follows up on Bob Usdin’s August 2008 “How Green is Green?” Piece for LIve Design. Remember, November 2009 is Green Day at LDI.
In general, many speak of sustainability as having three overlapping components: economic, social, and environmental. Theatres, by definition, score high on the social sustainability scale as places
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| October 26th, 2009 | This is an excerpt from Robert Usdin’s article for Live Design in April, 2008. Remember that November 19th is Green Day at LDI and they’re looking for nominees for green production of the year.
“No Orangutans Were Harmed In The Making Of This Scenery.” That was a proposed slogan that came out of a brainstorming
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| October 10th, 2009 |
Newsletter #3 is here! The quarterly is on its way out the door as well. Weve got a couple of very important events coming up as well and I hope youll join us for them. For those in technical theater, were helping Showman Fabricators with their Green Day 2009 at this years LDI
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly 7 is now available
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Sustainability in Theater
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