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.
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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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Lighting/Video/Staging Co.
Focus Entertainment Design
Venue
Tempe Center for the Arts
Tempe, AZ
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LOS ANGELES – The 2010 BET Awards, broadcast from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, featured an assortment of visuals from Pyrotek Special Effects including pyrotechnics, cryogenics, propane gas flame effects and low-lying fog for an artist lineup that included Kanye West, Diddy, Usher, TI and others.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. – XL Video supplied video packages for the three Pyramid Stage headline acts at Glastonbury 2010 – Gorillaz, Muse and Stevie Wonder. XL director Des Fallon handled the account.
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LONDON – Summit Steel recently completed one of its busiest phases at The O2 arena in London, where the Kent-based company provides the venue's in-house rigging services.
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SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Opera and Ballet, no stranger to Robert Juliat gear, has become the first U.S. venue equipped with Robert Juliat's motorized Victor followspots with RJNET electronics.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Simon Tutchener has been working with Mark Knopfler since 2002. He completed his first major tour with him in 2005. And he has been dealing the challenges of integrating video with the lighting design since – well, pretty recently, actually.
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