Boston Calling Music Festival
Lighting Co
East Coast Lighting & Production Services (ECLPS)
Venue
City Hall Plaza
Boston, MA
Boston Calling Music Festival
LD Mark Wheatley with Ian Anderson
Tour: Singer/flautist Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame
Tour Dates: U.S. to Nov. 10, Europe to Nov. 30, Australia in December; Continues in 2015.
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Giving Rigging Components the Torture Test
The show must go on. In rare cases it doesn’t, of course, because of an act of nature or man, but Show Distribution, based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, has taken a stance with zero tolerance for equipment failures. So when the company chose a modular connector to do the job of three single-purpose connectors on the controllers of a new high-speed servo hoist, it put the new connector through a torture test of sorts.
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Sea, Air, Space – and Truss
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at Pier 86 where New York City’s 46th Street meets the Hudson River, offers visitors a range of interesting things to see aboard the USS Intrepid that starts with the Intrepid itself — a WWII-vintage aircraft carrier. Also featured: the submarine USS Growler, a Concorde SST, a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane and the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
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Economic Indicators
Our economy is one of the driving forces behind our happiness and well-being. Since the late 2000s, the entire country has been on edge with the fear of the dreaded “R” word, Recession. And for good reason: a Federal Reserve report released two years ago showed that the median net worth of U.S. households dropped 39 percent —$126,400 to $77,300 — in the three-year span from 2007 to 2010.
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Historic Dutch Site Energized with Vibrant Color for Castle of Love Festival
The Castle of Love Festival, a two-day music festival, returned for the ninth year to the historic and wooded environs of Castle Park Erenstein near Kerkrade, a city on the Netherlands side of the Netherlands/Germany border Aug. 16-17, 2014. With 20,000 visitors looking to dance to the beat of popular acts including The Partysquad, Yellow Claw, Sick Individuals and Jay Hardway, LD Tom Franken was looking for gear that would inject electrified excitement into the normally serene surroundings.
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Scenic Designer Todd Rosenthal Scales Up “This Is Our Youth” for Broadway
Starring Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson, This Is Our Youth focuses on three college age rich kids dealing with interpersonal friction, identity issues and their hard-partying ways in the early 1980s. It’s a dramatic show set in a studio apartment setting on the Upper West Side, but looming above it is a few stories of a building edifice that emphasizes the larger landscape these self-involved youngsters are a part of. Scenic designer Todd Rosenthal worked on the show staged by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company this past summer in Chicago before it made its Broadway debut in at the Cort Theater in September, and he dealt with the challenge of taking a smaller production into a bigger space while keeping the material up close and personal.
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Guy Pavelo on Drake vs. Lil Wayne
Guy Pavelo of GPDesign.net was the production designer and creative director for the recent Drake vs. Lil Wayne concerts that toured arenas throughout the U.S. this year. He previously designed Drake’s performance at last year’s Toronto-based OVO festival and his Would You Like a Tour? 2013 tour. This design morphed out of what Pavelo created for Drake’s performances at this year’s OVO festival at Toronto’s Molson Arena. PLSN sat down to speak with the designer about how he approaches his designs overall, his knack for pushing technology, and about this tour, for which he also operated the lighting on the road.
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