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LD/Stage Manager Ron Farino and Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett and Ron Farino. Photo by Debi Moen

LD/Stage Manager Ron Farino and Tony Bennett

Tour Dates: Year-round worldwide

Design Concept: “Our show is all about the music. We don’t carry any of our own lighting gear so I have designed a lighting plot that is flexible in many venues. We use moving lights whenever available however our lighting plot is conventionals only. I lean towards an asymmetrical look in the background, I find that more interesting. Our show is a theatrical piece. I am trying to create a mood.”

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Florida Georgia Line is touring with PixelFLEX’s LED screen technology during their Here’s to the Good Times tour

Florida Georgia Line Touring with PixelFLEX Panels

NASHVILLE — Florida Georgia Line is touring with PixelFLEX’s LED screen technology during their Here’s to the Good Times tour, the country duo’s first headline tour, named after their first studio album release. The tour includes 35 stops over a 10-week span, with just one truck for all of the band’s equipment, making packing space a bit tight.

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Justin Lang with new BCFF (best computer friend forever)

Losing a Computer the Easy Way

It is a sad, sad day for me.  Earlier this week, I lost a dear friend of mine.  For that past six years, Mielziner has been one of my closest and most trusted friends.  No matter how I felt or what is going on in my life, I could share my stories, photos and so much more with him and he would not think any less of me. He was always there, ready to help me out.

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Imagined as a “Grammy Half Time Show,” the 2:36 minute Pepsi commercial focused on Deion Sanders, Terry Bradshaw, Shannon Sharpe and Mike Ditka as they brought out inner R&B/country star/rapper/pop idol personas.

The Making of Pepsi’s Grammy ‘Halftime Show’

Pepsi scored a hit among TV viewers and on social networks this year with its Grammy Halftime Show commercial, which aired Jan. 26 for a full 2-minute, 36-seconds halfway through the Grammy Awards telecast on CBS. Despite the spot’s length, it was crammed with a mash-up from the worlds of sports and entertainment. The production company, Holmes Defender of the Faith, with McG as director, worked with Ramsey Nickell, director of photography and LD Todd Roberts of Visions Lighting, which provided lighting, video and staging for the spot.

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'Beautiful' on Broadway. Photo by Joan Marcus

Creating a ‘Beautiful’ World

The lively musical Beautiful captures the musical essence of Carole King while chronicling the life events and artistic evolution that led up to her landmark solo album, Tapestry. “She’s an amazing songwriter,” declares the show’s scenic designer Derek McLane. “Most of us are familiar with Tapestry and with the stuff that she wrote for other people, but we don’t associate [all of] it with her and don’t necessarily know that she wrote it. What surprised me when I first read it was that she wrote ‘The Loco-Motion.’”

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Super Bowl halftime show with Bruno Mars. Photo by Brad Duns

One Cool Show

A look at the lighting, video and pyro for The Pepsi Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show

This year’s Super Bowl was held in MetLife Stadium, located in East Rutherford, NJ. It was the first — and many on the crew hope the last — cold weather Super Bowl in a stadium without a roof. To pull off the potentially cold and snowy Pepsi Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show with Bruno Mars and his band along with special guest, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, it took a lot of pre-planning. Known for high tech lighting and video, the show’s core technology is not exactly comprised of gear that loves cold temperatures, much less Arctic conditions.

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