Kieran Healy
Kieran Healy, LD for American Idol and other TV shows, doesn't just blast the set with white light, as the lighting for Fergie's performance in the CBS special, Home for the Holidays, attests.
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AO – The Fantastic Legend
Over the past couple of years François Roupinian, principal founder and designer at the Montreal-based lighting firm Lightemotion, has been called on to supply his talents to a wide range of projects. In fact, he’s traveled from Montreal to the States to Singapore to Italy to work on show, museum and event installations, but it was a job in his own backyard last year that might have been the most demanding.
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In the Land of Perspective
Scenic designer Peter J. Davison brings new angle to classical approach
The persepective of the set plays a role in Mark Twain's Is He Dead?, shown here with, L-R, Norbert Leo Putz, Michael McGrath, Jeremy Bobb and Tom Alan Robbins.
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Three Out of Five Ain’t Bad
“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” — Duane Michals
I was surprised to learn that three out of five people think I can’t count, and the other three have no opinion. At least that was what I gathered from the e-mail after the article in this column about the five lighting metrics. Apparently the three lighting metrics that were covered in the article don’t account for all five.
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The New Training Day
Live performances have become the currency of the entertainment industry. It’s most obvious in music, where an ever-growing percentage of recording artists derive more revenues from their concert tours than from CD sales. But the rise in the number of live events is evident in many other sectors, from spectacular corporate presentations to events like the celebration at the start of the New York City Opera’s season last year, which saw Times Square filled with thousands of folding chairs facing huge video monitors beneath light and sound rigs. With gala events taking place in unique outdoor settings, it isn’t just Elvis who’s left the theatre.
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Bonerama March/April Tour Pics
Hey all, just dropping in to post some pics from the tour. It all went really good and the band was throwing down hardcore. A lot of new tunes were played and some really neat arrangements to a few classic covers were thrown into the mix. We ran through Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Pennsylvania I believe. Sometimes we all forget where the heck we are on most of these tours so I imagine I may be forgetting a state or two, hah!
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Old studio, new look
Well I’m back at the old Sound Stage TV studio at WTTW in Chicago. Familiar building, but boy has the look changed. This is my fifth year doing shows down here, with 3 different directors. This time Bob Peterson is at the helm and the difference is quite noticeable.
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Believe in console agnosticism
If I have the option, I use a different console to program media servers than when I’m programming a bunch of moving lights. I find… Read More »Believe in console agnosticism
Read More »Nightclub Lighting is All About Energy.
What makes club lighting work? Energy! The visuals in the room should match the energy of the music. A wash fixture with a shutter chase… Read More »Nightclub Lighting is All About Energy.
Read More »Test Your Backup Plan
Lighting designer John Broderick once taught me that it is important on the first day to fully test the spare console. He stressed that I… Read More »Test Your Backup Plan
Read More »One night in Moscow
It's been 10 years since I went to Russia to light a gig. Last time I was there, I had one of those gigs from hell, where it took 2 days to set everything up and it still didn't work correctly. I'm here to say they've come a long way.
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Part One
The past month not a whole lot has been going on with me. I’m sure I could have sat down and told you all about my personal life but who really wants to hear about that? I don’t even want to think about it from time to time. I learned from other colleagues that this is typically a slow part of the year for touring so it didn’t bum me out too much, but I am definitely a guy who likes to keep busy. So in brief I was bored off my tail but that didn’t stop me from getting things ready for this next tour with Bonerama. The tour kicked off at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado starting a two week run through 11 states. To get ready for it I had to do some organization and a little bit of shopping. Recently I got a new Hog 500 from t2k lighting. I spent my time doing mostly data entry and some programming offline with a capture visualizer. When you have a large catalogue of music to work with every night you have to perform a lot of data entry to organize the show in the way you see fit. So I guess we’ll see how it all goes down.
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