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LD at Large Podcast

Integrating Creativity in a Big Way – with Ruben Laine

with Ruben Laine – Chief Nerd at Creative Integration Studio

On this episode, we discuss how can video content get us through the isolation period, how video and media servers have overtaken lighting as a focal point, how modern festivals are just a giant video walls now, how content needs to accentuate the performance and not distract, the ownership of content after the show, the intellectual property concerns with content after media server manipulation, who should be in charge of the video content, media servers, pixels, projection, video, mapping, VR, AR, XR, and reinventing yourself during these uncertain times.

“Collaborating in today’s industry is a must. Creative Integration is a necessity in today’s show business.”

— Yamil Charif, YC3 Lighting Design.

Please visit: https://creativeintegration.studio/ and https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l6d6ygzdvvuhef1/AAA46ZT3Yn58vuiFH9_5b8eCa?dl=0&preview=LD+at+Large+-+Media+Bible+-+as+of+Aug08.pdf

This Sucks! Now What? – with Seth Robinson

with Seth Robinson – A Principal Lighting Designer with Sightline Design Group

On this episode, we discuss mental health during isolation, spending time away from our best friends/coworkers, spending more time with family and kids, adapting to new schedules, breaking old routines, making sure that productivity is not our only sense of self worth, retreating to old habits like smoking, drinking, and overeating, the importance of a hobby, and addressing the raw fact that life sucks right now.

Please visit: www.sethrobinson.net

Bridging the Gaps Wherever They Are – with Victor Ortiz

with Victor Ortiz – Account Manager at Darvik Productions

On this podcast, we discuss returning to work in the COVID era, Brainstorming solution to the new world, maintaining constant contact with hundreds of clients and customers in isolation, maintaining genuine relationships with core friends/clients, how to get your costs down on rentals these days, how to present any idea to as many people as possible, the new load in processes and why relationships in our business matter so much.

Please visit: https://darvik.com/

Pick Your Side of The Barricade – with Michael Smalley

with Michael Smalley – Creative Director, Lighting and Video Designer And Programmer at PHNTM Labs

On this podcast, we discuss what it’s like to be a fan of music in the music industry, star-fuckers, working with celebrities, dealing with friends who know you work with celebrities, managing guest passes, fan interactions at FOH, respecting your clients as celebrities and as bosses, Bringing family/spouses/partners to shows and how to pick the best side of the barricade.

Please visit: www.phntmlabs.com

Theater Was Made For TV – will Alan Adelman Podcast

with Alan Adelman – Lighting Designer

On this episode, we discuss the inevitable progression of theater from the proscenium to the screens, preserving theater for archival purposes, how COVID19 has changed theater folks view of video as a useful tool, how the time has finally coming for producers to see value in making good quality video captures of their stage work, breaking down the walls between theater and broadcast, making art vs. making craft, and how to prepare for the televised revolution.

Please visit: www.imdb.com/name/nm0011825

Negotiating to Yes – with Jimmy Lawlor

with Jimmy Lawlor – Lighting Designer

On this episode, we discuss how schools can properly prepare their students for the business side of entertainment, how schools can provide networking skills, keeping up with technological demands, how should one should prepare for the industry fresh out of school, how to effectively negotiate for what you are worth, winning friends and influencing people, breaking down the taboo of talking about how much we make, proper venues for networking, talking with students and refining your people skills for success.

Please visit: www.lawlordesign.com

Dream Respectfully, Dream Big, Dream Free – with Tom Sutherland

with Tom Sutherland – Knight Of Illumination winning Lead Designer at DX7 Design

On this episode, we discuss whether or not you need to finish school to become a designer, how a person can create opportunities for themselves in this industry, what it’s like to be the youngest person in a room of creatives, how to defeat the stigma of being young and inexperienced, how designers should know how to program, when to separate your art from yourself, when to fully put yourself into your art, and how to encourage diversity of opinion in the creative process.

“I always dream respectfully and I always dream big.”

Please visit: www.dx7design.com