Luminair 1.5 Contest Is Over – Winners Contacted

I am thrilled to say that I have sent the two winners’ names of the Luminair 1.5 contest to Ryan at Synthe FX, who will be contacting the winners to set up their free licenses of Luminair 1.5 – lighting control via your iPhone!

If you listened to the first edition of The JimOnLight.com Podcast, you would know the two questions posed for entry into the contest – for those of you who haven’t had a chance to hear it, I asked the following questions:

1.  What was the first computerized lighting control console for entertainment?
2.  What are the languages in which Luminair 1.5 is translated?

I accepted two answers for question 1 – the first memory console was actually developed by Strand, called the Strand IDM.  From the Strand Archive:

The world’s first memory lighting control, the IDM/DL arose out of the need to advance from a three preset manual fader desk to a means of recording the fader levels and instantly reproducing them in performance. The first installation in June 1968 in Schweinfurt, was followed by Budapest Opera and the Coliseum, London. With its push-button IDM/R variant (the prototype of the DDM) and the later redesigned MSR system, 20 systems were installed around the world.

I also accepted the answer of Gordon Pearlman’s LS-8 Electronics Diversified, used in Tharon Musser’s production of A Chorus Line.  Pearlman’s console was the first memory desk used on Broadway.

The second question was easy, located on Luminair’s website.  Luminair is translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, English, and Spanish.

I took all of the entries and generated two completely random winners from a randomly generating algorithm – the winners were completely randomly selected from the correct answerers.  If you won, you’ve been contacted.  If you didn’t win, I have another contest coming up this week!  Free stuff ROCKS!  Thanks to all who entered – I have a lot more planned, and I hope you participate again!