The Woodstock Music Festival began on Aug. 15, 1969, drawing half a million people to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Here’s a video about the iconic event along with a link to PLSN’s interview with Chip Monck, the festival’s PM/LD, for the “Flashback” feature in the August 2022 issue.
Abbas Ritscher and his team at The Design Oasis made up for the lack of front-lighting at the Rolling Loud festival’s Snipes Stage by grabbing 12 extra Chauvet Professional Maverick Storm 1 Wash fixtures from their inventory and hanging them “as far down the stage as we could” for a camera-friendly lighting design. The Design Oasis also used Chauvet fixtures to illuminate the smaller VH1 stage and the festival grounds.
It’s been a busy year for lighting and production designer Chris Lisle and his company CLLD. The production design firm recently wrapped up work on Lollapalooza, their sixth major event back to back, where they relied on an Elation-centered rig including Proteus series IP65 luminaires to light Perry’s Stage.
It is all together fitting that the image of the waif Cosette sweeping Thénardiers’ Inn serves as the basis (in slightly cropped fashion) for the emblematic image of Les Misérables. Here, within the grimy walls of this old chop house in Montfermeil, the conflicted forces that at the heart of the iconic musical are crystalized: from the pitiless justice of Javert who seeks to punish the hero Valjean, to the blackmailing mendacity of the Thénardiers, who conspire against him.Read More »LD Christopher Robin Reflects Mood of Les Misérables
AUSTIN, TX – The archive of award-winning lighting designer Kevin Adams has been established at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, a key research destination for the study of theater and performance history.
With John “Ozzie” Osborne – LD at Ozterity Lighting
With Kathy A. Perkins – NC-based LD and Professor of Theatre
with Adam Honoré – NYC-based LD
With Adam Marz – The Atmospheric Director and Lighting Designer at Marz Lighting (Globe Theater)
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
With Scottie Dell – Technical Director and Lighting Designer at Dell Lighting and Designs
