In the early years the focus on event lighting was "what can i do to make this super cool"(at any cost) It was fun to stretch the limits of technology by plugging in various gizmos and programming complex lighting setups to make it all happen. After a few years of the "at any cost" method a few problems started to develop, and what was once fun was starting to turn into a nightmare.
Why had things become so difficult? The hard work was easily justified by saying "it had to be that way to get amazing results" We were so disillusioned that we even considered all the hard work as a way in which we were better than the competition! Meanwhile we soon realized customers struggled to find the value in us arriving 8 hours early and staying 6 hours after. If divided how much we were paid into hours worked it was often less than minimum wage
To survive change had to happen. At each event we started to Look for ways to simplify. For example Power cables reduced to two different lengths, and labeled to be easily identifiable. Multiple other "Systems & Practices" were put into place with the intention of closing the gap. Ironically however we even managed to make simplicity difficult. There were countless improvements that seemed like a good idea in theory, but once put into practice made other areas more complex .
For sure, true progress has been made but even today there are sometimes when simplicy still seems to be elusive...
Why had things become so difficult? The hard work was easily justified by saying "it had to be that way to get amazing results" We were so disillusioned that we even considered all the hard work as a way in which we were better than the competition! Meanwhile we soon realized customers struggled to find the value in us arriving 8 hours early and staying 6 hours after. If divided how much we were paid into hours worked it was often less than minimum wage
To survive change had to happen. At each event we started to Look for ways to simplify. For example Power cables reduced to two different lengths, and labeled to be easily identifiable. Multiple other "Systems & Practices" were put into place with the intention of closing the gap. Ironically however we even managed to make simplicity difficult. There were countless improvements that seemed like a good idea in theory, but once put into practice made other areas more complex .
For sure, true progress has been made but even today there are sometimes when simplicy still seems to be elusive...
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