Every once in a while I get a call from a band looking for a new stage concept and or lighting design. Quite often my ideas will be submitted along with other designers and the act will choose one of us as thier new designer.
Since my stories are always progressing as I go along on my journey I wanted to share a couple of things that I have been wanting to share but I haven’t got the chance yet.
Dirty lenses. Need I say more?
A few years ago, a high school theatre student e-mailed me as part of a class assignment. The subject of his e-mail concerned the tremendous… Read More »Green Stages
If some of you youngsters could shut up long enough to listen to these seasoned guys that have been around, you may learn something valuable.… Read More »We Walked Uphill…BOTH WAYS!
I’m glad to finally see the snow gone. Not because I hate winter, but because I hate being stuck in airports. Something that’s been happening to me all too much this year.
Soooooooooooo I was unaware that the headlining act was an act that pretty much has a residency playing at the Cubby Bear. They were awesome! It was just a two piece of acoustic and drums. Some parts were loops but when you have only two on stage you need samples. They were really cool guys who play what I like to call Latino Whites Stripes. I characterize it that way because they are a two piece like the White Stripes, but more Latino roots based. Which rocks their drummer is like a combo of drum and percussion melded into one.
"When people tell you that you have to do grunt work, there’s no such thing as an easy out. You are not going to be… Read More »Climb the Ladder
Back in the infancy of the computer industry, circa 1965, a young Mr. Gordon Moore (a co-founder of Intel) had a most prescient thought in an article he authored for Electronics Magazine — the number of transistors on a silicon chip will double approximately every two years, ad infinitum. Since that moment, his prediction has entered the vernacular as “Moore’s Law,” and it’s been pretty darn accurate to date. It’s also been a very good representation of the cycle of change in which we operate today in the video and entertainment industries. The keyword is “change.”
Most lighting designers and programmers have done a corporate show at some point, right? They are the bread and butter of our industry in many ways, so it’s hard not to find yourself sitting in a hotel ballroom at 3:00 a.m. from time to time, working on a show that will end as soon as that CEO makes his big announcement.
Coemar, the Italian automated lighting manufacturer, has recently unveiled their latest product; the Infinity Wash XL. It’s a 1200-watt moving yoke color wash fixture with some interesting surprises. In some ways it is much like your typical color wash moving light with a color mixing system, zoom, effects, beam shaping, dimmer, shutter and pan/tilt. But in other ways it’s very different.
Few performers command the type of production that you get with designers like Peter Morse (Prince, Bette Midler), Butch Allen (Garbage, Metallica and Dancing With The Stars, The Tour), Baz Halpin (Queen + Paul Rodgers, Westlife) and Jon Pollak (Steely Dan, Lenny Kravitz). But only the inimitable Christina Aguilera has the pull to bring them all together for one production, her “Back to Basics” tour. The tour continues its North American leg after starting in Europe.