Articles
"I write about things that I think people might be interested in. Sharing information is how we all get better at what we do!"


On Lighting:

Two Musicals In Ten Days

Solving An Impossible Lighting Challenge

Is There Life After Big Budget Shows > (requires registration with Live Design)


On Programming:

Console Wants:

1: Fixing Focuses In One Go

2: Building Blocks

3: Understanding What Cues Actually Are

4: Making Better Use Of Information The Console Already Has

5: Spot or Wash or Direction?

6: A Better Take on Preset Focus

7: Not Pre-Viz, Live-Viz!

8: Freedom To Move Consoles

9: Data Central

10: It’s All About The Data


Learning Curve:

1: To Track Or Not To Track


Other:

Mary Poppins: A View From The Console > (requires registration with Live Design)

The Witches of Eastwick Down Under >

Programmer on Programmers > (requires registration with Live Design)

Documenting Show Lighting > (requires registration with Live Design)


Strand 500-series Console Tips >


Other Reading:

Rob has been writing about entertainment technology for more than fifteen years. The best of these articles have now been collected together into the books Entertainment In Production vols 1 and 2.
Entertainment In Production >
Kindle Editions >

He continues to write regularly, most notably with his Classic Gear column. Classic Gear >

Plus there are plenty of wise words about theatre and lighting written by others to choose from:
Entertainment In Production Library, UK >
Entertainment In Production Library, US >