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On their Good Together Tour, the multi-genre quintet Lake Street Dive uses varied contrasts to make every show impactful and memorable. And lighting director Andrew Froehlich uses X-Laser Skywriter HPX M-10 fixtures to enhance the impact of every song and lighting look. It’s a design that they call “joyful rebellion."

How Mercury Laser Control Gives Lighting Designers an Unfair Advantage   Picture this: You're a touring lighting designer who, during your travels, has seen lasers used at some of the concerts you've worked. You haven't used lasers firsthand before, as you had only seen them controlled with a separate software setup by a dedicated "laser guy". You figure that's because getting...

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...

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...

DJ Chris Poynter provided lighting design and sound reinforcement for Passion & Performance Arts Inc.’s annual spring dance showcase and afterparty. This was not your average setup, however. Located in a large hotel ballroom, the setup included a twenty foot truss on one end of the room with two X-Laser...

Virtual reality, augmented reality, lasers, and more combine in Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Teknopolis installation in New York City. The Ghost Sine installation from our friend and mixed-media laser artist Christopher Short is an interactive display using a custom ultraviolet Skywriter M series laser. The display allows the user to...

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...