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Muse Resistance Tour 2010

Orwellian Influence Leads to Ministry Video Towers

 

 Oli Metcalfe is one of the new generation of lighting designers who is completely comfortable with developing video content to complement the lighting design.

Compulite Vector Violet and Ultra Violet

One of the earliest automated lighting consoles on the market was called the Animator. It was very advanced for its time, but it never gained the widespread popularity it deserved in North America, probably because it had limited distribution. The company that designed and built that console is Compulite.

Last-Minute Changes for Oil Spill Concert Include Floating LED Screen

Daktronics partner GoVision worked with BSUN Media Systems to help LuLu's restaurant at Homeport Marina in Gulf Shores, Ala. out of a jam. Tropical storm Alex forced the postponement of a charity concert to benefit those affected by the BP oil spill. Lulu's was left without an act to entertain the large crowds expected on June 30 and July 1.

A Sonic Boom of Video Content

"One Little Change" Leads to 14 Days of Video Madness for KISS Tour 

 

For a creator of custom video content, it was a tall order – create a towering quantity of custom content in a short 14 days – and hold the chicks.

Nashville Sets the Stage

Nashville's staging business is the anchor component of the increasingly-elaborate productions that chug out of Music City every year. But like the sets that the handful of companies here fabricate, the business is glossy on the part that the audience sees and less so back in the shop.

Career Conundrums

I remember a time over 12 years ago when I was talking with a young student in an automated lighting programming class I was teaching. He said that he really wanted to work in this field, but that his parents thought there is no future in it. They would rather have him become a doctor or lawyer than a "lighting guy."

Country Camaraderie

It's been 20 years since I had anything to do with country music. This is not by choice; it simply never played out that I got a chance to light any artists in this music genre. So when a friend asked me to design the first annual Country Throwdown tour, I immediately replied that not only would I like to design it, I'd go out and run it.

Strike!

When I was a kid, my two older brothers were standing in the front door watching a massive electrical storm through the screen door. I was afraid to get too close to the doors or windows because of what sounded to me like earschplittenloudenboomers. Each bolt of lightning shook the house and rocked the neighborhood.

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Erykah Badu

Lighting Co.
Creative Stage Lighting

Venue
Roseland Ballroom
New York, NY