![]() Selected a Broadway or Vegas show to see based on the lighting designer or equipment used.Ĭan carry on a discussion about lighting for more than an hour.Īre given gifts for birthdays and holidays that relate directly to the lighting industry. Picture in your mind how you would light any song you hear. Move your hands in a waving manner with your fingers spread out when describing anything having to do with moving lights. Have a shelf full of books about lighting. Have volunteered your time to be on the lighting crew of a show without being paid. Have a closet full of black swag T-shirts. Have submitted photos of your work to PLSN Showtime. Purchase used lighting equipment as collector's items. Watched a show you are not working from FOH or the booth. Have worked the Light Network booth at LDI.Īttend lighting tradeshows as a vacation. Read the Light Network more than once a day. Take your kids to Sesame Street Live and they tell you what lights they see in the truss. Watch the Super Bowl only to see the lighting during the half time show. Have been to a strip club and paid attention to the lighting. Have posters about lighting products framed and hanging in your house. Have lighting manufacturer support contact numbers in your phone. Know how many DMX channels most lighting fixtures use. Read lighting magazines while you eat breakfast or sit on the toilet. Have ever spent the weekend at an RDM Plugfest. You might also be a lighting geek if you… ![]() You have ever recorded TV shows so you can read the credits at the end.Īnd if you keep a database of the lighting crew from those shows, you are definitely a lighting geek! You wait in line to be the first one into a lighting tradeshow. You have gone out of your way to see an architectural lighting installation you read about in a magazine. You can only think of colors in terms of gel numbers. You have ever named anything (pet, child, car, boat) after a lighting product. You attend a concert and call out the gel colors of the spotlights from your seat in the audience as they change. You memorized the names of famous lighting designers and made it a goal to meet them all.Īfter watching any show you tell everyone about the lighting. You have ever lit the exterior of your home using DMX. You would rather talk about lights than most any other subject. I often state that those of us who work passionately in show business have it "in our blood." Early in my career, I became a self-declared lighting geek, and I am proud to take on this moniker.Īre you a lighting geek or merely a lighting enthusiast? Read on to determine for yourself just how geeky you might be. As you probably know from reading this column, I love lighting. However, somewhere along the way that changed (or maybe I just grew up), and now being smart is a good thing. Generally, people did not want to be considered one of these things. When I was growing up, the terms "nerd," "geek," and "dweeb" were synonymous with someone who spent too much time reading, computing, or just being different.
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