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Full Focus Inc. is now an authorized Martin Professional dealer.
“Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, Martin Professional is a world leader in the creation of dynamic lighting solutions for the entertainment, architectural, and commercial sectors.”
Full Focus Inc. is excited about the possibilities this brings to the local venues as well as our clients nationwide. Martin lighting is well known as an industry standard and provides road ready solutions for tours, rock solid performance for the night after night tasks of a nightclub, the elegance and proven reliability needed for architectural installations, as well as the functionality lighting designers around the globe require.
Full Focus is also pleased to offer the Martin Lighting line of controllers. Our entire team has had the opportunity to use the Martin Maxxyz on several of the NCL cruise ships as well as specifying the Maxxyz on several of our corporate events and we are in love with it! They have taken it even further now with the compact and much more affordable M1, which Full Focus has specified for the main lighting console at a local worship facility, and we plan on putting this console in stock as part of our rental inventory.
Martin also has a huge line of very cutting edge LED products. LEDs are taking our industry by storm and Martin is right there on the edge growing with it! They have the new MAC 350 Entour that is an LED answer to the moving light consumer. It’s simply amazing! No need for buying new lamps, it runs cool, its small form factor makes it easy to use as an architectural fixture but it has enough punch to use in a theatre setting as well. And the 350 is only one of many LED products Martin has done right. So stay tuned for more LED solutions.
Martin lighting has a strong environmental and ethical focus which makes them great fit here at Full Focus! Please take a look at the Martin Lighting product line on our online store and please call us for competitive pricing on all their products. Once again we are proud to offer you Martin products and stand behind their products 100%.
Architectural lighting is becoming a very important element worldwide. I have seen some amazing lighting on some amazing architecture while traveling. There are many things a business, home or any facility can do to create a new look to their building both inside and out. As a designer I am always looking at what is done to buildings and taking notes as to how we can assist those around us to create exciting new looks with architecture but keeping in tune with the design of the building and its surroundings. I feel it is so important to understand that it doesn’t have to be huge or extravagant to be perfect! There are places where a ton of expensive lights are what is needed to create the look, however it is often over-done and sometimes the simplest design is what is exactly needed.
I also want to say just a few more words about the use of natural lighting. I can’t count how many museums I have been to where the only light on the displayed objects is natural light that has been directed or allowed to fall onto the object architecturally. WOW! I mean it is amazing to look at a sculpture, painting or some ancient artifact with natural lamination. Then to think the architect had the vision to create that path for the light when designing the space is even more incredible. Now that isn’t always available in our modern designs but to take that concept into our modern forms and use the correct lighting is always a possibility.
Please don’t get me wrong, I love the LED movement and think it has a huge place for us designers and even the end users, but we must always keep in check what is actually needed for the effect or task and make sure we stay true to what we know is needed and not have our hands forced by new technology. Till then keep up the good work!
Full Focus Inc. is proud to introduce the Flurry™ Wash Lumiere. This is a great little moving head wash fixture that fits in the palm of your hand and packs a punch!
This little fixture can be assigned to 5 or 13-channel DMX, and has LED RGB
color mixing capability. Features built-in color macros for a quick effect. The Flurry™ Spot also features variable electronic strobe, speed control for multiple channels, user-selectable pan and tilt ranges, and built-in movement macros.
Full Focus is pleased to be providing a neat little fixture like this one from Blizzard Lighting. The features of this fixture are below:
Features
Pan: 540°, 360°, 180°
Tilt: 180°, 90°
Specs
173mm x 173mm x 249mm
Full Focus now offers the Torrent 90™ LED Moving Head Spot, the world’s first 90W LED moving head fixture coming in at under $2,000! LOADED with features like dual gobo wheels, rotating prism and iris, it is easy to use thanks to its large LCD control panel. This fixture is built to last! This Torrent 90™ is whisper quiet, and significantly smaller, lighter and brighter than the competition.
Pro features are included everywhere in the Torrent 90™, including optics which provide a nearly totally flat, even beam with less than 10% output variation edge-to-edge.
With dramatically decreased weight and high-quality stepper motors, this fixture is nearly silent when moving, with an amazing 55dB @ 3′ sound rating. Even the casing is a work of art, molded with a unique rubberized exterior which resists scratching and cracking. Two sets of built in quick-release mounting points make rigging a breeze.
Backed by a 2-year warranty and powered by a state-of-the-art 90-watt Luminus™ CBM-360 Light Engine, this fixture is built to impress.
Full Focus is excited to be a part of the Blizzard Lighting dealership network. We look forward to new products from Blizzard Lighting in the future.
Full Focus will be adding several of these Torrent 90 movers to our rental inventory. Take a look at the other products they offer. LED pars, strips, smaller movers, both spots and washes.
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The Christmas season is in full swing at the Galt House in Louisville KY.
Full Focus Inc. was invited by the Gary Musick Company to light a new concept show opening at the Galt House Hotel. This family styled Christmas show is running for a six week period at the hotel. As always the Gary Musick Company has handpicked an amazing cast of singers and dancers to debut this new show.
Our assignment for this show was to design a lighting plot, program the show and then make sure it could run on auto pilot for six weeks. One of the major obstacles in this room was trim height. But with a handful of side lighting positions both upstage and down we were able to get a good compromise with modeling the cast and set. The show is just under an hour and runs auto pilot with midi time code from the audio hard drive. Everything went as planned and we had a great opening show.
It’s worth stopping in to see if you’re in the area. Dinner is served as well with the entertainment and would make a great evening out with the family! Our thanks go out the team at the Gary Musick Company.
October 2010 the Full Focus Inc. team will travel to Turku Finland where the Allure of the Seas, the newest member of the RCCL fleet is being built.
Full Focus Inc. has been chosen to work with the producers of the new RCCL Allure. This is the sister ship to the Oasis of the Seas which we were a part of in 2009. These are the largest passenger ships on the sea. MSE out of Hollywood FL wroks with the dancers, event, and youth staff to create themed events on the ships. Full Focus works with MSE to light these events.
All of the shows are set up to run with time code or some other method of automation. This keeps consistancy in the shows when the current staffs contracts run out or new people are hired. Most of the ship uses Wholehog products to control the lighting and LCS for the audio and timecode. As far as fixtures go it is a wide variety of manufactures.
Full Focus Inc. provides backline and house sound for the Kris Allen VIP event in Conway AR.
October 27, 2010 Kris Allen and Blackbird Academy of Arts did a benefit concert here in Conway AR. Blackbird Academy asked Full Focus Inc. to provide the backline, house sound and lighting for the VIP event that took place right before the concert that evening. Full Focus also provided the front of house console, monitor console and some backline gear for the concert itself.
Chris Mayhaw headed up the event for Full Focus Inc.. The VIP event was a small acoustic type set and only for the sponsors. Our gear list was mostly Yorkville Sound for the PA, monitors and amps, as well as the backline gear, then an Allen & Heath front of house console. Lighting was a handful of 1 watt LED pars that simply accented the decor.
Chris was very pleased with the Yorkville Sound products and Full Focus is very pleased to offer their full line products for rentals and sales. Everybody had a great time and Blackbird Academy did a great job of organizing the entire event.
Lighting designers Rob Holland of AVI Staging Technology Group and Robert Dicken of Full Focus Inc. were able to successfully co-design the lighting package and control for the Silpada Designs 2010 National Convention in Missouri. Silpada is one of the nation’s largest sterling silver jewelry home party companies, with over 28,000 independent representatives. This year’s three-day annual conference at the Kansas City Convention Center attracted nearly 5,000 sales representatives and featured presentations, an awards night and an entertainment night.
29 semi trucks carried the support for the multi-purpose rig that consisted of about 100 Martin lighting fixtures with a few conventional channels for audience washes. Two Wholehog 3 consoles were used for control. The majority of the work load was placed on the MAC 2000 Performances. They were dedicated to the framework around the LED portals. All in all the Martin rig was at about 99% the entire show, having only to replace one fixture that was not responding as it should on day one. Props have to go out to Martin for this one. I dont know of many rigs with this many moving lights that would hold 99% throughout the week! Also props go out to Christie Lights for taking such good care of their rental gear.
Cory Combow from Full Focus was the ME for the show and did a great job keeping us up and running as well as taking care of all the satellite rooms the show had throughout the week. 
As far as control… The Hog 3 consoles we used on this one were rock solid as well. Joshua Gillespie from Full Focus found the new software seems to be hitting on resolving some of the old annoyances that were becoming “the norm” for the Hog 3′s. We were pleased with the rig as a whole on this one. Rob Holland did a great job with fixture placement and type making it an easy task for me to design some great looks for the client on this end. It was a great show!
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