Category: Blog
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Panola College 75th Anniversary, Carthage, TX
It was a huge honor for Laser Spectacles to be selected to provide the finale for the Panola College 75th Anniversary Celebration. I had seen pictures of the venue – the Student Center – but when I got there, I realized that this show could really be something special!
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Salado, Texas Holiday Laser Show
This laser show in Salado, TX was planned as part of the “Salado Stroll” weekend promotion, and it was packed! Salado is full of interesting shops and dining establishments, and the show was set up on the grounds of the Barrow Brewery, with the picturesque Salado Creek running right behind the screen. the event is…
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Texas FFA Convention Fort Worth 2021
The Texas FFA Convention is an explosion of energy each year, and Laser Spectacles is proud to be a part of this by providing a laser show to kick off each session. Over the years working with Texas FFA, we have refined the shows to be as direct and contemporary as possible. Texas FFA chooses…
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Nebraska State Parks Centennial Tour – Victoria Springs
Victoria Springs State Recreation Area is a gorgeous little piece of heaven surrounding a little lake that you can paddle out on little rental boats. There are trees everywhere! We set up in a huge field on the other side of the lake, and the night was just perfect – the haze drifted out forming…
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Nebraska State Parks Centennial Celebration Tour – Chadron State Park
The town of Chadron is way up in the northwest corner of Nebraska, and this is where our first laser show was performed. We had quite a drive up through Texas and Colorado, seeing more and varied shades of green vegetation that I expected! And Chadron State Park is quite hilly, making for some interesting…
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Granbury, Texas Sesquicentennial
I was very excited to plan and execute this show, because the Hood County Courthouse was the venue. What a building! We were able to stop by several times in the months before show day, and test the ongoing programming. The setting on show day, November 6, 2021, was just perfect. The laser show was…
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Laredo – “Lights of Hope” – a COVID Remembrance
Our laser show was scheduled for Saturday, May 29, 2021; due to weather, everyone had to do some “fancy footwork” and the event was relocated and rescheduled for May 31. Lasers were set up just a few feet away from the airport, so we had to project away from the runway, and terminate the lasers…
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Keller, TX – “Holly Days”
Keller Parks and Recreation was not able to put on their normal Christmas Tree Lighting in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic warnings against large gatherings of people in close proximity. We explored with them the possibility of having a series of short laser shows every half hour over several nights
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Interactive Laser Fun
For Luna Fete 2019 in New Orleans, I committed to creating an interactive laser installation using an Xbox Kinect to supply real-time data and draw images of the people interacting together in the Play Space. I chose to work within the program TouchDesigner because it gave me full access to the data that I wanted…
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Edinburg UFO Festival
I have been traveling to Edinburg, TX in early April recently to add a laser light show to the popular “Out of This World!” UFO Festival & Conference. The show is presented on Friday night in the Edinburg Municipal Auditorium, which was built in 1926 and is in outstanding shape. The first year that I…
