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Light Talk with The Lumen Brothers

David Jacques, Steve Woods, Ellen Lampert-Greaux, and Dennis Size

LIGHT TALK is a show featuring three seasoned professional lighting designers and educators who discuss the latest developments in the world of live entertainment and architectural lighting design. Steve Woods (SMU), Stan Kaye (University of Florida), and David Jacques (California State University Long Beach) offer sage, and sometimes controversial advice to professionals and students of lighting design. Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and very little makes sense.

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46:07

LIGHT TALK Episode 415 - "Bringing Out the Best in Us...

Light Talk with The Lumen Brothers ·

2025/03/15

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Family welcomes Designer/Educators Clifton Taylor and Mark Stanley to the show! Join Mark, Clifton, Ellen, Stan, and David as they pontificate about: This year's Showlight preview; Mark and Jane's workshop in Copenhagen; What's new at The Studio School of Design; The High School Program in July in New York; Professional Development for High School teachers; The College Educators' Symposium in May; "The Tortoise and The Hare"; How many Gilbert's Bunnies fit in

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38:50

LIGHT TALK Episode 413 - "Marry-Up!"

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2025/03/01

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from The Hidden Benefits of a Performing Arts Degree, to DOGE-Bros. Join Stan, Brackley, and David as they pontificate about: Why some fixtures come in more than one varient; The worst college degrees for career advancement; Making the decision to commit to the arts; The Department of Podcast Excellence; Great presents for graduating lighting students, Leasing out your lighting consoles; and Marrying-Up! Nothing is Taboo, Nothing

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54:41

LIGHT TALK Episode 410 - "The Pink Pony Club - Our...

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2025/02/08

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Our Grammys Review, to DMX à La Mode. Join Zak, Stan, and David as they pontificate about: "The Nightfly"; Why DMX modes are so confusing; Is it just a "Nerd Thing"?; Considering the light and color that is reflecting off of a surface; The art of negotiation; Our Grammy Show review; Noah Mitz's amazing lighting design; The most powerful moments; Beautiful and Incredible performances; The LA FIres tribute; Chappell Rone tells

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42:04

LIGHT TALK Episode 409 - "Beware the Red Flags..."

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2025/02/01

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers and Sister discuss everything from 7000 Par Cans to Our Ultimate Lighting Fantasies. Join Ellen, Stan, and David as they pontificate about: NAMM Report; Grammy preview; Must you use all the lights on a light plot?; The return of "Drone Focus Deluxe"; Slow programmers; Dream light plots; "Lumen Master Control with AI"; Being an honorable professional; Avoiding being the "victim"; Exceeding the expectations; and What type of television should you buy

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48:08

LIGHT TALK Episode 408 - "The Majesty of Mellotrons"

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2025/01/25

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from "Playing a Hooter", to Sleeping with the Monkeys. Join Stan, David, and Steve as they pontificate about: Snow in Florida; Fires near Snoot's house; David at NAMM and the Grammies; The Majesty of Mellotrons; Steve heading to URTA; How not to burn bridges when you get really pissed off; What is so special about diffusion?; "A whole bowl of wrong"; GAM diffusion filters; Beam shaping; Moving to the United States for theatre

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55:56

LIGHT TALK Episode 406 - "Maligning ParCans"

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2025/01/11

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers and Sisters discuss everything from URTA Prep to Crossbreeding Iguanas. Join Ellen, Jacqui, David, and Steve as they pontificate about: Researching graduate lighting programs; Useful skills to master; Using the library; Basic techniques in lighting musical production numbers; Creating the illusion of unobtainable lighting angles; Less is more; "Bring back the 10 out of 12's"; What happens when your production goes south; "Spiderman" Disasters; and

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01:04:37

LIGHT TALK Episode 405 - "Tickets to do Nothing! -...

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2025/01/01

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers and Sister celebrate Passing the Great Lighting Sceptre from 2024 to 2025! Join Ellen, David, Stan, and Steve as they pontificate about: Our Joys and Dissapointments of 2024; New technology that did not make it in 2024; Apple Vision; Boeing Blues; The future of the Vari*Lite Hive; The secret why David was not invited into the Vari*Lite booth; The (Real) Hive Medea Server; Our most interesting topics of 2024; New technology visions for 2025; AI vs

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LIGHT TALK Episode 402 - "'Transposition' is a Dirty...

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2024/12/14

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, Lumen Brother David welcomes Opera Resident Lighting Designers Michael Clark, John Froelich, Chris Maravich, and Justin Partier to the show. Join Chris, John, Justin, Michael, and David as they pontificate about: How do lighting designers meet; Followspots anyone?; The responsibilities inherent in being a Resident Lighting Designer; Discussions with visiting guest designers; The time contraints of lighting opera; Organizing the lighting tech time; Ballet companies

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52:37

LIGHT TALK Episode 400 - "Total Sensory Overload -...

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2024/12/09

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and Sisters) present their 7th Annual LIGHT TALK LIVE show from LDI! The Lumen Family talks about everything from AI Madness to Our Favorite Sandwiches. Join Anne, Steve, Brackley, Zak, Stan, Snoot, and David as they pontificate about: The future of AI in our industry; What will be the relationshop of lighting and video sources in the future regarding output and control; Chapter 7 of "Bobby Danger... The Lighting Guy"; Our favorite lighting

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41:22

LIGHT TALK Episode 401 - "Amateur Night in Waco"

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2024/11/30

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Time Warps to Bette Midler. Join David, Stan, and Steve as they pontificate about: Our big Light Talk celebration at LDI; Does it make sense to retrofit old Source 4's with Source 4WRD's?; Using AI and Chat GPT in Projects; When is a design finished; Freezing a show; "The Perfectionism Trap"; Bad Hombre Productions' "The Mist Liquid Hydrogen Fogger"; Our Dream products for LDI; What to do with a professor who is a Jerk; and

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49:19

LIGHT TALK Episode 397 - "Kerplunked, Farmisht, and...

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2024/11/09

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Having Nothing to Say, to The Musical Box. Join David, Stan, and Steve as they pontificate about: Election night plans; The "Lumen Family Zoom Spin Room"; Sustaining a converstion in design meetings; Picking the perfect frontlight; Getting a quick and unified blackout from a variety of sources; "The Musical Box"; The Cheeky Rigger of Sheffield's "Chatterbox 3000"; Pedegrees vs. People; and Lighting for Arena and Thrust

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38:26

LIGHT TALK Episode 395 - "Breaking Rectangles - Our...

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2024/10/26

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers and Sister welcome lighting designer Michael Stiller to the show. Join Michael, Ellen, David, and Steve as they pontificate about: Becoming a lighting designer without any formal training in the field; Bard College; Finding gigs in New York City; Media and generative driven lighting; Experiential lighting; How disruptive will AI be to the architectural lighting world; Where design ideas come from; Combining pixels with lumens; Element Labs; "A gentle

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35:32

LIGHT TALK Episode 394 - "I'll Have a Half-hat, a...

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2024/10/19

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers and Sister discuss everything from Color Pickers to Las Vegas Implosions. Join Ellen, Stan, and Steve as they pontificate about: The changing face of Vegas; RIP Gel... again!; How to meet directors and designers if you don't go to graduate school; Using the gel color picker on a console; Hoarding Gelatran; Tesla Trucks; "Tech Table Etiquette"; How to balance your academic and working craeers; Using Zoom for your lighting classes; and "Pool",

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49:14

LIGHT TALK Episode 392 - "Sleep Fast, Sleep Deep"

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2024/10/05

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and Sister!) discuss everything from Ellen's Mother-in Law's Personal Power Station, to Stan's "Table of Curiosities". Join Ellen, Stan, and David as they pontificate about: Remembering Catalyst; Who gets paid for revisions of drawings; How clean is the energy in clean energy festival stages… and how safe are the batteries?; "Sleep Fast, Sleep Deep, Lighting Slumber Device"; How "UL" affects our lives and the lighting profession; and Designing your

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LIGHT TALK Episode 390 - "Lighting the Presidential...

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2024/09/21

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and SISTER!) welcome Honorary Lumen Brother Dennis Size to the show to discuss his lighting for the historic Harris/Trump Debate. Join Dennis, Ellen, Steve, Stan, and David as they pontificate about: Steve's vacation at "The Dairy Queen Nudist Colony"; Dennis rebutting David's AI Programmer comments; The history of how the debate was designed and produced; The lighting mission of a debate; Set and Video Wall decisions; "The Sea of Blue";

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37:30

LIGHT TALK - Episode 389 - "MLBA: Make Light Bright...

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2024/09/14

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and Sister!) discuss everything from AI in your iPhone to "Light Talk: The Book!" Join Ellen, Stan, and David as they pontificate about: Steve on the beach; Lighting report from The Nudist Colony; Apple Airpod Pro 2 hearing software and possible theatre use; New iPhones with Apple Intelligence; Getting a job with a lighting maunfacturer at LDI; Which software tools should you learn before you graduate; Being a "Software Hound"; LDI Video and Media

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56:27

LIGHT TALK Episode 386 - "Delightful!"

Light Talk with The Lumen Brothers ·

2024/08/24

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Timing Cues, to Monkeys in Stan's Bidet. Join Stan, David, and Steve as they pontificate about: Stan's Greek Cruise; Lox, Bagels, and Avocado Toast; USITT coming to Long Beach; David' Pre-tech at the San Francisco Opera; The best team ever!; Educating yourself in architectural control systems; Assigning timing to your cues; Following the music; Better Than Nothing Industies' "Easy Mop and Sweep"; Starting on the right foot;

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49:36

LIGHT TALK Episode 385 - "Pictures of Lili's and Lasers"

Light Talk with The Lumen Brothers ·

2024/08/17

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers and Sister discuss everything from Lasers on Sharks, to Steve Trying to Drive to Dairy Queen. Join Ellen, Stan, David, and Steve as they pontificate about: New lighting books; What to do when your budget is cut by 50%; How many lights do you really need?; Lili's at LDI; Incorporating AI into lighting controllers; Apple Vision Pro and how it may change the lighting design process; Illegitimate Panda's new solar-powered moving lights; Good short-throw

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56:26

LIGHT TALK Episode 384 - "Tag-Team Designing - Our...

Light Talk with The Lumen Brothers ·

2024/08/10

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers and Sister interview Tony Award Winner Lighting Designer, Jane Cox. Join Jane, Ellen, Stan, and David as they pontificate about: Winning the Tony for "Appropriate"; Getting light into difficult spaces; Your career is a series of relationships; Working with John Doyle; How to Play in the theater; The fun and pleasure of creating lighting cues, transitions, and atmospheres; Co-designing "Teeth"; Teaching and developing a curriculum for

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47:07

LIGHT TALK Episode 378 - "An Outlaw Solution"

Light Talk with The Lumen Brothers ·

2024/06/29

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Finding Qualified Technology Teachers to Sipping Buffalo Milk on the Bay. Join Steve, Stan, and David as they pontificate about: How to critique lighting designs; Controlling lighting systems remotely; How to integrate lights that can't be dimmed into a lighting design; Ken Billington's prodigy moment; Legal help to protect your AI designs; Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks; The days of pontification are over; Faculty directors not

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