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With professional laser control and programming easier than ever, lighting designers and live event producers can add lasers to lighting rigs and use them to them enhance any array of traditional moving-head fixtures. So if your team is set on adding the allure of laser light to your next event, tour or...

What is Mercury Laser Control? Lasers for lighting designers Launched in 2017, Mercury is our control system built from the ground up for direct control from lighting consoles. As moving lights and intelligent fixtures have developed, many people viewed lasers as either cheap effects or large, expensive, and required extensive...

Four Reasons Lighting Designers Should Use XLERATE What is XLERATE? XLERATE is our free software tool designed to be flexible and work seamlessly with your rig. Featuring previsualization support, rig management capability, content management, and more, XLERATE is the perfect tool for lighting designers who want to integrate lasers into...

Ohana Baptist Church Wins a Free Lighting & AV System Valued at $231,000, Caleb Surface of Ohana Baptist Church in Honolulu, Hawaii became the second winner of the #FreeChurchAV giveaway. The installation was recently completed, after 5 Words Media CEO Daniel Gourley announced Ohana Baptist Church as the winner in January...

The X-Laser 2020 Highlight Reel Complete List  For many 2020 was a dark year. We would not have made it through without the support of our friends and clients like you. Many of you were finding new ways to bring light to the world and we wanted to highlight some...

This past weekend was metalcore band August Burns Red's annual Christmas Burns Red show, this year virtually and on-demand for a limited time.  Squeek Lights supplied the lighting and lasers, notably Elation DARTZ 360s and X-Laser Skywriter 5Ws.  Killer lighting design by David Summers!  "Our Christmas show was the first time...

Photo by Matthew Stoneback eddysound.com If you follow us on social media, you've probably seen some of the amazing photos and videos from our friends at Eddy Sound. We reached out to them to learn more about what they've been up to in the last couple of months.   Photo...

Photo from Eddy Sound The newest project from Eddy Sound is the official music video for Jarrod Gipson's song "Complicated". Using Skywriters in combination with their Blizzard Lights and ChromaQ inventory, LD McKenley Hoelmer created an innovative timecoded design! You can watch the music video below. What did you think...

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Design Challenge! We hope you had as much fun creating as we did watching. And the winner is... (drum roll please!) Grant Kondourajian of GK Lighting! Congratulations Grant! You can watch his video here!  You can also follow Grant on Facebook here. Missed the...