Reach Camp 2015 20 years strong!

This was our 20th year to provide production for Reach Camp, back then known as Quest Camp. Reach is our oldest client, dating back pre Integrity Lighting days to when CEO/President Steve Nance & VP Pete Dawson owned Joshiah Productions.

Throw Back to

Quest Camp 2004

Brian Jenkins

Martin Leeuwner

Pete Dawson

Steve Nance

Running audio this year for the first time was Daniel Brough, our lead audio engineer.
Pete Dawson had been at the helm for years. With upcoming changes in the company and things being so busy, it was time for him to pass on the reigns.

For the second year our CEO & CFO's son, Carter Nance, was LD for this year's camp. "Handing over our oldest client to my son is an amazing feeling, knowing he can go in and do the job and make the client happy! I am beyond proud of him!" said Steve Nance, CEO.
"One evening after worship, I received a text from the client saying, "Carter is killing it this week during worship!"

By the way, he's only 15 folks!

The 2015 National Junior Angus Show

The 2015 National Junior Angus Show “Angus Leading the Way” in Tulsa, on July 13-18. 

This was the 5th time Oklahoma hosted the National Junior Angus Show. 

A near-record 1,800 head of Angus cattle are expected to compete this week

We were honored to get to work with this amazing staff and organization. 

Check out this review from our client!

"I am so pleased with the work done by Integrity Lighting for the National Junior Angus Show Opening ceremony. The staff is friendly, capable, professional, punctual, efficient and extremely creative! I gave them a sense of my "vision" for the event and they created something that exceeded my expectations. I wish I had other events in the works so I could hire them again! Very pleased!"

RUSH Gobo Projector 1

We are loving the new Martin RUSH Gobo Projector 1! This small LED fixture packs a punch!
The RUSH Gobo Projector 1 is ideal for applications that require a compact fixture for easy LED gobo projection. Ideal for clubs, bars, restaurants, weddings,shopping malls and more! 

This silent gobo projector provides easy adjustment of focus. Speed and direction is controlled by easy-touch buttons, and the magnetic gobo holder makes it easy to change gobos in seconds.

Want to see this fixture? 

Drop by the Integrity Lighting Showroom room to check it out!

Check out the product video!

 

Arkansas Super Summer 2015

It's always a pleasure to work with Joey Licklider. We met Joey years ago while doing Reach Camps at Ouachita Baptist University. Joey was an assistant tech director for the Jones Performing Arts Center. He has since become the head tech director and designer for JPAC.

We asked Joey to tell us bit about his design for Arkansas Super Summer.

"For this design I had some idea of some things that I wanted to try that I hadn’t done before. I wanted to  put truss visible on stage and decided this time to run them upstage/downstage for a different look. We added Martin Mac101 LED moving lights to these side trusses, then gave a different stage angle for the effects the moving lights were able to do. I also had the help of my assistant, Stephen, who came up with the idea of the curved LED tube array. I also wanted to experiment more with LED tape and find fun ways to use it. The LED tubes in the array are made from clear fluorescent light tube protecters. We took Rosco 111 frost rolls and cut them to 5 inches wide and 8 feet long to put inside the tube to frost and diffuse the LED color from the tape. The LED tape is attached to the outside of the tube with gaff tape to hold in place. The tubes are then zip tied to a hanging wooden frame that gave us the structure to make the curved array. The tubes are able to each be controlled with the use of a few 24-channel led controllers and power supplies. The curved array gave us a lot of neat options for color and intensity chases and effects. There was lots of planning to get the IMAG and lyrics screen in the right place to fit the rear projection beam in the right place under the tubes. The final design and setup gave some really great colors and looks. I was very pleased with the results!"

Gear list from Integrity Lighting
8 Martin Mac 700
8 Martin Mac 101

17 LED tape tubes, built in-house
Jands Vista T4
In-house supplied Pars, Ellipsoidals, LED washes, truss, star drop, etc. 

Lighting Designer: Joey Licklider
Assistant Designer: Stephen Vaughn

We love the Cain's Ballroom

We absolutely love working at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa! There is so much history in this venue and it's always a blast working with the Cain's Team!
Above are a few pictures from a fundraiser dinner & auction we recently lit.

Cain's Ballroom is a historic music venue located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, built in 1924 to serve as a garage for W. Tate Brady's automobiles. Madison W. "Daddy" Cain purchased the building in 1930 and named it Cain's Dance Academy, where he charged 10¢ for dance lessons. The academy was the site of The Texas Playboys' first regular radio broadcast, and they continued to play there regularly.

It fell into disuse until 1976 when Larry Schaeffer purchased the building, refurbished it, and reopened it with the current name, Cain's Ballroom. It hosted the Sex Pistols in 1978, and several bands from the Second British Invasion.^{[citation needed]}

Cain’s Dancing Academy was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 2003.

For more history on Cain's, check out Wikipedia!

For more info & upcoming shows, check out the Cain's Website

LOVE OKC STUDENT CONFERENCE

LOVE OKC STUDENT CONFERENCE DESIGN

We are always excited to to work with the amazing Stephen Kramer and his team at North Church in Oklahoma City. We recently provide gear for Love OKC 2015 and got a chance to visit with Stephen prior to the final night. We asked the Stephen about the vision for this years event. Check out what he had to say about Love OKC.

"The design for LOVE OKC Student Conference started where everything within our organization and church starts, vision.  The whole vision of this conference is to be an example of God’s light to this world through students and their hands.  LOVE OKC Student Conference is the combination of mission work and passionate worship (pouring out love and being filled up with the Holy Spirit)

            We always want to start our conference off with a distinct message and vision for the week through an opener.  This year we decided to use a special from our friends at Church On The Move called “There is a Light.” Video

            In the planning of the opener, the idea of light “exploding” from a central area kept coming up. Ideas of something that generated the light, ideas of reflecting light, etc.  At that point, the example of a Miranda Lambert’s Concert came up from Bandit Lites Instagram, mirror balls being hit from all directions with spots.  I then had multiple conversations with Steve and Pete at Integrity Lighting regarding equipment needed to pull of this special moment at the beginning of our conference.  One thing that kept coming up was how to spend the budget wisely.  I never want to spend money on fixtures/lights that we are only going to get one use out of in a weeklong conference.  Therefore we came up with a rig of 24 Martin MH3’s to go along with their 48” Mirror Ball, allowing us to get a tight beam for spotting the Mirror ball and also supplying another dimension of beam to our stage set. 

            The plan the whole time was to light the Mirror ball from all directions, upstage floor, all stage trusses, front side wings, and front wash bar(Thus needing 24 of them).  This made reusing the fixtures for other moments in the experience hard.  So after load in we decided to test some things out.  We set the ball in the middle of our room, put a few of the fixtures on the stage floor and shot them at the ball.  I figured out that if I aimed the beams on the outside of the ball, it would reflect 150° - 170° off the mirror ball.  From there we decided to use all the fixtures behind the mirror ball, allowing us to use the fixtures alongside the rest of our backlit set.  Having the sharpy style/tight beam fixture allowed us to hit the ball without any bleed over, and also allowed use to adjust the look of the beams that were being reflected.  The tighter the fixture, the tighter the reflected beam.

      

 

At the end of the conference we wanted to end with a dance party to celebrate all that had happened that week.  Our creative team put together a video of before and after pictures of the house that were painted during the week.  We wanted to create a fun “Club” / “DJ” feel environment with the song “The Nights” by Avicii.  We consulted again with Integrity and landed on the idea of using 4 Antari W715 Fog Jets to simulate the dynamic of CO2 jets, with the combination of the Mirror ball, the Martin MH3’s and the Antari Jets, the Experiences at LOVE OKC Student Conference are still being talked about among our church today."

Happy 4th of July

From the team here at Integrity, we wish you all a very 

Happy & Safe 4th of July!

Enjoy your 4th with Recipes from our team!

From our family to yours, we thought it would be fun to share some of our favorite 4th of July recipes that we have enjoyed over the years! From salads to deserts, here are some of our team's favorites!

CAPRESE PASTA SALAD WITH BASIL PESTO VINAIGRETTE

(Submitted by Eric – Live Events Sales)

CAPRESE PASTA SALAD

INGREDIENTS:

1 box of pasta

1 carton cherry tomatoes, halved

1 block of mozzarella cheese, diced

1 tablespoon kosher salt

2 teaspoons black pepper

1/2 red onion, diced

BASIL PESTO VINAIGRETTE

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups of basil leaves

1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese

3 tablespoons of red or white wine vinegar

2 tablespoons of lemon

2 teaspoons minced garlic

1/2 teaspoon of lemon zest

3/4 teaspoon kosher salt/pepper

1/2 cup of olive oil

DIRECTIONS:

Put basil leaves, parmesan cheese, vinegar, lemon, garlic, lemon zest and salt/pepper in a blender.  Blend.  Pour 1/2 cup of olive oil slowly into the blender via the top attachment. Serve once smooth.

DIRECTIONS:

Cook pasta according to directions.  Pour cold water over pasta after draining and stir into a large bowl.  Add in the cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, red onion, and salt and pepper.  Stir in the basil pesto vinaigrette.  Evenly incorporate.  Serve cold.

If you want to make this dish even more festive for Memorial Day Weekend, add 4-5 drops of blue food coloring to the boiling water for the pasta. The more food coloring you use, the darker blue the pasta gets.  Or just serve in a big blue bowl

BUTTERFINGER PIE – EASY!

(Submitted by Saundra – Accounting Manager)

INGREDIENTS:

6 (2 1/8 ounce) butterfinger candy bars, crushed

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese

1 (12 ounce) carton Cool Whip

1 graham cracker crust

DIRECTIONS:

Mix first three ingredients together.

Put it in pie crust.

Chill.

HOMEMADE ORANGE SHERBERT ICE CREAM

(Submitted by Saundra – Accounting Manager)

INGREDIENTS:

4 eggs

1 1/2 c sugar

1 box instant vanilla pudding (large or small box)

1 can Eagle Brand

1 can Evaporated Milk

DIRECTIONS:

Mix well and add some orange crush pop. When mixed pour in your ice cream bucket and finish filling with orange crush pop to the fill line.

SOUTHWESTERN BLACK BEAN DIP

(Submitted by Amber – Admin Assistant)

INGREDIENTS:

15oz can black beans, drained and rinsed

15oz can corn, drained (or 1-3/4 cup fresh or frozen-then-thawed corn)

3 vine-ripened tomatoes, seeded and chopped

1 green bell pepper, chopped

1/2 red onion, chopped

1 jalapeno pepper, ribs and seeds removed then minced

1 clove fresh garlic, minced

1/4 cup chopped cilantro (or more or less)

1 teaspoon cumin

Salt and pepper

3/4 cup Zesty Italian salad dressing

DIRECTIONS:

Combine all ingredients in a bowl then mix to combine and serve with tortilla chips. Can be made a day ahead of time.

BEERGARITA

(Submitted by Amber – Admin Assistant)

INGREDIENTS:

1 Miller Chill (or Bud Light Lime, or any light beer)

1 shot tequila

1 shot triple sec

1/2 shot Rose's Sweetened Lime Juice

1 Tablespoon frozen Limeade concentrate, thawed

Juice from 1/2 lime

Ice

DIRECTIONS:

Combine all ingredients together in a large glass. Mix, then add ice.  Makes 1 Beergarita.

STEVE’S SALSA

(Submitted by Steve – CEO)/President)

INGREDIENTS:

6 cups chopped tomatoes 

1 chopped green bell pepper 

1 cup onion, diced 

1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro 

1-2 chopped fresh jalapeno pepper (including seeds) 

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 

1-2 teaspoon kosher salt 

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

1-2 fresh squeezed lime 

Mix together, chill & enjoy!

Makes 8 cups

(for extra spicy, add 1 -2 habanero peppers if you dare!!)

Homemade Vanilla ICE CREAM

(Submitted by Steve – CEO/President)

INGREDIENTS:

1 pt whiping cream

5-7 eggs

1 can eagle brand

1.5 cups sugar

1tbs vanilla

3 qts milk (Braum's Vitamin D)

DIRECTIONS:

Beat eggs together then add in vanilla, sugar, whipping cream, eagle brand, then add milk. 

NUTTY BANANA S’MORES

(Submitted by Angel – Marketing Director)

INGREDIENTS:

Graham Crackers

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (or Nutella)

Sliced Bananas

Marshmallows

DIRECTIONS:

Make as you normally would make a S’more

SUGAR COOKIE FRUIT PIZZA

(Submitted by Lori – CFO/VP)

INGREDIENTS:

2 packages of sugar cookie dough

8 oz cream cheese

2 cup powdered sugar

Tsp vanilla

Strawberries

Blueberries

Any other fruit you like

DIRECTIONS:

Press the sugar cookie dough onto a round pizza pan.  Bake according to package directions.  May need to increase backing time some due to using two cookie packages.   Cool completely.

Cream the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla together.  Spread on cooled cookie.

Decorate with fruit.  Alternate circles of blueberries and strawberries for a patriotic look.  Other fruits such as bananas, kiwi, mandarin oranges can be used as well

OVEN ROASTED BBQ CHICKEN THIGHS

(Submitted by Lori – CFO/VP)

INGREDIENTS:

3 cups Your Favorite BBQ Sauce

1/2 cup Peach Preserves

1 clove Garlic

Hot Sauce, Optional

12 whole Chicken Thighs, Bone-in, Skin-on

Olive Oil For Brushing

DIRECTIONS:

Combine BBQ sauce, peach preserves, garlic, and hot sauce in a medium saucepan and heat over medium heat for 5-10 minutes, or until nice and hot. Set aside.  PREHEAT OVEN TO 400 DEGREES.

Drizzle olive oil on 2 rimmed baking sheets and place chicken thighs skin side down in the pans. Roast for 25 minutes. Remove from oven briefly, brush sauce all over the thighs, then use a spatula to flip them over to the other side, being careful not to tear the skin. Brush the tops with more sauce and return to the oven for 7 minutes. Remove from oven, brush on more sauce, and return to the oven for another 7 minutes. Remove from oven, brush on sauce, and turn up the temperature to 425 degrees. Continue roasting for another 5 to 7 minutes, or until the sauce is starting to brown around the edges and the thighs are totally cooked through. Remove from the oven and let sit for at least 10 minutes before serving.

Delicious!

LIGHT CHERRY SALAD

(Submitted by Pete Dawson– VP)

INGREDIENTS:

1 Can Eagle Brand Milk

12oz. lite Cool Whip

2/3 cup pecans

20 oz crushed pineapple

1 can lite cherry pie filling

1 cup miniature marshmallows

handful of shredded coconut

DIRECTIONS:

Mix together the Eagle Brand milk and the Cool Whip.

Add remaining ingredients and stir together.

Pour into salad bowl, chill and serve.

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

(Submitted by Carter – Lighting Designer)

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup of sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

DIRECTIONS:

Mix in bowl

Form cookies into a ball

Press with fork

Sprinkle with sugar

Bake at 350 for 10-14 minutes