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What's new at LaserNet -- 2008
 

This year’s nationally televised Orange Bowl Half Time show featured ZZ Top performing their hit, “Sharp Dressed Man” accompanied with lighting by Daniel Charif and LaserNet.

The lighting director, Charif, used 24 Syncrolites, 24 MAC 2000’s and follow spots to make the stadium come alive.  His GrandMA was busy as the show went live nationwide and he controlled all the lighting, including 11 smoke machines to fill the stadium.

LaserNet supplied two 25-watt Verde Beam Raider YAG special effects projectors for the event. The two systems were linked together via a DMX computer and each projected a mirror image of the other. In this configuration, programmer/operator Horacio Pugliese was able to create 3-dimensional beam structures with perfect symmetry. Since each Verde Beam Raider has 10 adjustable beam positions used to target external bounce mirrors, the LaserNet team had 20 static beams to create different looks for the concert.

LaserNet had two extra challenges to deal with for this event:

1. The sold out stadium limited where the laser beams could be projected.

2. Special FAA permission had to be granted in order to shoot the lasers into navigable airspace.  

Fortunately for LaserNet, the overhang of the upper stadium seating sections provided the perfect separation from the public and our laser beams.  And, the FAA allowed LaserNet to project in one direction at an angle from 45° to 90°.  Even with these limitations, LaserNet created a dramatic look that rocked with ZZ Top.