A Mountain of Color, Texture and 3D “Infinity” Looks
The album Lenny Kravitz is supporting with his 2012 tour may be called Black and White America, but the colors revealed in the jagged-edged lighting and set design, a collaboration between LD Steve Cohen and production and set designer Es Devlin, are anything but.
He was the voice of Woodstock, gently suggesting you avoid the brown acid.
Chip Monck is one of the most colorful characters in the business, a business he is considered the Godfather of. The lighting designer has been part of some of the amazing events ever staged, including the Ali/Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo). He was tour and staging manager with the Rolling Stones for seven years and stage producer for Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, one of the first big benefit concerts raising awareness and donations.
Mapping 3D Video Projection in Another Dimension
It started innocently enough. In 2006, the wild idea to use fluorescent lighting for a live music production flashed in the mind of lighting designer Jeff Lavallee, of 44 Production Designs. But for nearly a year and a half, Lavallee couldn’t find the missing piece of his concept: the right band with which to match it.
A lot of what we do as video professionals is nebulous to the uneducated and usually is perceived as being in the world of black magic. But it almost always involves making an image look pristine somewhere in the rig, whether it’s a display monitor, a projection, or part of an LED set.
The little town in the Bible Belt turns 100 this year and is drawing a lot of wattage in the process
Last year at this time we looked back at the recovery of Nashville’s staging industry from a devastating flood that swept through the city in May, 2010. This month, we’re looking at another entertainment event success story that had its own brush with meteorological disaster earlier this year and has come out of it just as robustly.
Prince’s Revolution Reunites for a Night
It was déjà vu all over again for LD Leroy Bennett. He reprised a role he played back in 1984 by returning to the First Avenue in Minneapolis to light the stage again for Prince’s backing band, The Revolution. The iconic club had set the scene for the film and soundtrack album, Purple Rain. Now the band was coming together for one night this past February to celebrate drummer “Bobby Z” Rivkin, who survived a near-fatal heart attack a year ago. Funds raised were donated to mypurpleheart.org and the American Heart Association.
