Transcending the Odd Walls that Separate Lighting and Set Design for Live Performance and TV/film.
As designers, our practice is diverse. We design sets and lighting for television, theatre, film, events, museums and public spaces. The challenge is remembering what mindset we need to use at any given time, allowing for the possibility of crossover when appropriate. Read More »
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts Opens and Gives Las Vegas a Hall for the Ages
Say Las Vegas, and many things come to mind. Talk about seeing a show in Las Vegas, and a few other things come to mind. What probably doesn’t come to mind is a stand-alone, performing arts center dedicated to serving the local community as a home to the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Nevada Ballet Theatre, a Broadway touring house, classical music venue, jazz speakeasy and rock or country roadhouse. The Smith Center for the Performing Arts aims to change all that, and to place Las Vegas alongside Vienna, Paris and New York as a city with a world-class performing arts center built for the ages. Read More »
Roland’s V-800HD Multi-Format Video Switcher may have eight mixing buses instead of 16, and four SDI inputs instead of eight. But like Roland’s V-1600HD, it lets users tap into a wide variety of analog and video sources, manipulate the imagery and display clean, sharp video, even on large LED displays.
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A “Super Simple” Petty Set
Jim Lenahan, longtime LD for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, describes the 2012 tour as a “super simple scaled-down look this year. We’re basically turning arenas into a proscenium theatre look with classic red velour swags, legs and travelers.”
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Last fall, I heard from my friend Missy. She manages the Chicago-based rockers “Rise Against.” They had been on tour last year and were looking to revamp their look and wanted some ideas. Their production guru is Jon Dunleavy, a man I had gigged with before. I reached out to him to inquire what they were looking for. They had a few requirements they wished to base a design around. First and foremost, they were a punk band. They didn’t need a lot of hoopla. Just a few backdrops and some rock ‘n’ roll lighting. They had some set carts that they would carry around the world this year, and they wanted a lighting package that could attach to the carts. They also wanted some “light boxes” that could spell out the letters, “R-I-S-E.”
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – Significant advancements have been made in the new release of lighting visualization software Capture Polar Version 2.7. The new software is packed with improvements focused mainly on paperwork and documentation. Plus, a new Free Student Edition is now available.
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LONDON – XL Video’s concert touring division is supplying Pixled F-11 LED screens and processing equipment to JLS, a U.K.-based “boy band.” XL is supplying the equipment to show producers Production North as part of the video package for the band’s latest sold-out U.K. arena tour.
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GORINCHEM, The Netherlands – The De Nieuwe Dolen theatre was regularly hiring lights for their own productions until deciding it was now more cost effective to purchase. After a few shoot-outs, they chose Robe fixtures, specifically ROBIN 600 LEDWashes and ROBIN MMX spots.
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