Every year, I design a few festival-type tours. Normally I design the lighting rig, then the lighting director for each band programs cues on the console of their choice. It's normally about camaraderie between each band, and all of the lighting directors get to know each other and have a swell time.
Lighting Co.
Theatrical Lighting Systems (TLS)
Venue
Church of the Highlands
Birmingham, AL
Lighting/Staging Co.
Toucan Productions
Venue
Zoo Amphitheater
Oklahoma City, OK
Lighting Co.
Clearwing Productions
Venue
Broadway Palm West
Mesa AZ
Lighting Co.
Zenith Lighting Inc.
Venue
Hard Rock Live
Orlando FL
Lighting Co.
H.B. Stage Productions
Venue
Vino Nuevo
El Paso, Texas
Lighting Co.
Precise Corporate Staging
Venue
Sun Angel Stadium,
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Once, in a moment of apparent weakness, the dean of the college of engineering invited me and some other students to his house for dinner. We were all sitting in the study talking about school when I said something that, in retrospect, seemed to be the dumbest comment ever.
"Learning is painful," I said.
The month-long 2010 FIFA World Cup, played in 10 stadiums around South Africa, culminated in a match between Spain and Holland at Soccer City Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg, and in Spain's first World Cup victory by a score of 1-0.
QMDI Event Organizer hired Creative Communication Group (CCG) to produce the light and sound for the third Senior Convocation of Education City, an initiative sponsored by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.
It probably wasn't intended to serve as a commentary on the current outlook for the international economy, but the British electronica band, Faithless, was booked to perform during the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia in mid-June.
It was the year that Big William Howard Taft was president and little Marie Curie published her Treatise on Radiography; Mark Twain died and Django Reinhardt was born; Jack Johnson ruled the ring and the Titanic was being built.
Oh, and Rosco Laboratories was born.