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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...

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...

Our friends from Stonewolf Studios provided the lasers for TEMPO by EAMOTION, a live entertainment production company focused on bringing immersive experiences to the public. Founders Erik Anderson and Gordon Droitcour of EAMOTION recognized early on in the pandemic shutdown that live entertainment was not going to quickly return to how it...

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...

This week’s episode of The Learn Stage Lighting Podcast featured X-Laser President Adam Raugh. Adam and David discussed how X-Laser works to bring lasers and lighting together, different ways to control lasers, ILDA and analog technology, the X-Laser Design Challenge (read more about that here), our Mercury system and XLERATE...

Drew Hornback with MaxTenn Lights brought lasers to worship with our Mercury system! He created some amazing unique effects for Northstar Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. “These units from [X-Laser] are so much fun to work with! This is both 5 Watt & 10 Watt Skywriter Mercury Units. Mercury has allowed me...

How much fun can we have with 8 5 watt lasers and a little circle truss? We find out with LD Mike Chappell of Dark Matter Tech as he shows off some timecoded shows he programmed and a bit of busking on his custom MA onPC setup. Mike is awesome enough he'll be sharing his show file with everyone, we'll be making it available for download here in a few days.