“Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.” — Robert Armstrong as
Carl Denham in the original King Kong (1933).
There’s a new movie in the making that will soon be playing in theatres and performing arts spaces everywhere. It’s about a new protocol that goes up against a monster bundle of cable. The winners in this battle are the techies and end users of large lighting systems.
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I’ve been having a lot of fun this year doing something I don’t often do — lighting heavy metal tours. While it’s not my favorite kind of music, I am having a blast. I mean, what other genre of music enables you to hit 160 cues in a three-minute song?
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I love calling spotlight cues and using them in place of a front truss. Unfortunately, the two heavy metal bands I recently lit would rather… Read More »Putting Heavy Metal in the Spotlight
Read More »Oct. 15-16, 2009 Berlin, Germany www.sae-alumni.org
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So my gal and I are relaxing watching CNN cover the Republican convention. Final night, it’s time to hear Mr. McCain accept his party’s nomination. So I tune in to see what he has to say. And instead of hearing him I can only think of one thing…, this is the worst lighting and video presentation I have ever seen on TV.
Read More »Timecoding shows can be fun, but good, in-depth knowledge of how your lighting console interacts with these signals, and experience in troubleshooting, are must-haves when… Read More »Timecoding is fun – when it works
Read More »Oct. 19-22, 2009 Paris Expo-Porte de Versailles Paris, France www.siel-expo.com
Read More »Nov. 20-22, 2009 Orange County Convention Center Orlando, FL www.ldishow.com
Read More »A lighting designer should really have a good electrician with them for foreign shows. It should be someone they’ve worked with before. Third world countries… Read More »Have Electrician, Will Travel
Read More »Successfully lighting a musical may require an aptitude for music itself, only so much of which can be taught. “The lighting has got to work… Read More »Successfully Lighting a Broadway Musical
Read More »After the last few weeks I gotta wonder about the intelligence of today’s young audiences. They can be talked into just about anything.
Read More »Every now and then a live show gets interrupted. Sometimes it’s due to some audio difficulty such as a mic or musical instrument has a failure. Often it’s due to power outages. But last week I found a new way to disrupt a show. Flying turf.
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