I’ve decided to award some credit to where credit is due in my humble lighting opinion to some companies, products, and people across the year 2010 who have wow’ed me to no end. I did a lot of work in 2010, and that work was made possible by fantastic companies and products that allowed me to create lighting without being hindered by poor workmanship or development.
The first of the 2010 JimOnLight.com LIGHT AWARDS goes to InLight Gobos for their RENT-A-GOBO program!
CONGRATULATIONS! InLight Gobos, you saved my rear end by providing me with high quality custom glass gobos at a ridiculously awesome rental price for a production of The Light in the Piazza in the fall of 2010. The problem I had was the need to incorporate some colored projections into a few of the scenes in The Light in the Piazza to accentuate a certain mood – at one point, Clara has a mental breakdown while looking for Fabrizio in a night time scene.
The InLight Gobos RENT-A-GOBO selection is colorful and vibrant – and I did not have the money in the budget to buy full-color patterns for the show. As much of a bummer as this might have been at the time, this is why Rick Hutton created the idea of renting glass gobos for productions. I have to believe that most of the people reading this blog have the same problem at one time or another, right?
InLight Gobos’ RENT-A-GOBO #BAB-003 – “Organism Color” – was my problem solver for this design challenge:
and the corresponding scene using the RENT-A-GOBO templates:
I also used InLight Gobos’ RENT-A-GOBO #BAB-128 – “Liquid” – for a nice textured breakup in several parts of the production:
I want to give a heart felt THANK YOU to InLight Gobos for allowing me to work within my budget and still produce art that I felt good about by renting glass gobos. I could not have done this without your great glass rental gobos!
People, if you find yourself in this situation, I *highly* recommend checking out the RENT-A-GOBO Program through InLight Gobos in Dallas, Texas. Rick’s work is the best on the market. Now you can rent glass gobos to help your already tight production budgets. Check out a capture from the InLight Gobos website of the RENT-A-GOBO selection:
Congratulations, InLight Gobos. You’re the first winner of a 2010 JimOnLight.com LIGHT AWARD!
Check out my production photos from The Light in the Piazza – we toured this show to a venue in Arkansas as well, with rave reviews! Click on a thumbnail below, and a gallery view pops up!
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