Artiste Picasso spotlights Trevor Hoffman induction
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Meeting Services (MSI) handled the AV work at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Trevor Hoffman in Cooperstown, New York, and then returned to San Diego for the special event celebrating Hoffman’s return to San Diego, part of a four-day long celebration at Petco Park that also included the unveiling of a Trevor Hoffman statue.
Lighting designer Leonard Delgado and the team at MSI were contracted to spotlight the famed pitcher for a final 10-second solo spot salute from the pitcher’s mound in which every light in the park would be off. “They initially wanted me to use two user-operated followspots on him to pick him up on the pitcher’s mound,” Delgado explains, “but for many reasons I wanted to use Elation Artiste Picassos instead. The followspots would have blocked sight lines and in the back of my mind I knew the Artiste Picasso had the power to do it even though I was told that with a throw of 350 feet I was pushing the limits of the fixture. But I really wanted to see what the fixture could do.”
Delgado’s challenge was to avoid blocking sight lines while keeping cabling to a minimum. His solution was to mount the Artiste Picassos on a 2' truss to keep the fixtures out of the line of sight to the field. The designer was able to avoid cable ramps by running DMX behind seats and taped along staircases. After several trial runs, four Artiste Picassos worked from the front light camera well located behind home plate with two Picassos each at the first and third base position camera wells.
(Jim Evans)
