Gordon ‘Gordo’ Hyndford Joins Epic Team

SECAUCUS, NJ – The 2012 Academy Awards featured a main drape fabricated from Rose Brand. The drape was made out of 21 oz. Marvel and custom sewn in Rose Brand’s West Coast facility. The drape featured 204 hand-sewn, jeweled medallions and a 4-foot-8-inch trim band. It was also sewn with 150 percent fullness.

Bergamo, Italy – LD Baz Halpin used Clay Paky Sharpys and Alpha Beam 700 automated spotlights on the US leg of Katy Perry’s “California Dreams” tour.  Katy’s tour was set in a ‘Candyfornia’ world that was colorful and thematically-inspired, Halpin said. He used the 16 Sharpys along the perimeter of the stage, while the Alpha Beam 700s were the “multipurpose workhorses.”

BEAUMONT, TX  – The Golden Triangle Church On The Rock annually offers a city-wide Night Of Worship event featuring local musicians and prayer leaders. LD Josh Beard selected Elation’s Platinum Beam 5R DMX moving heads from rental company Deep South Productions to light up the 2,000-seat auditorium.

ST. LOUIS — Swank Audio Visuals has turned to a lot of different technologies for its clients since it was founded here in 1937. Now providing an AV assist to more than 375 resorts and hotels, the company recently upgraded its arsenal of gear with new Analog Way processing and switching systems.

BLOOMINGDALE, IL – Robe lighting is illuminating a 20 ft. high triple helix glass sculpture, which is suspended in the new Rotunda entrance of the Joyce Eichhorn Ames School of Art in Bloomingdale, IL. The Helix appears to spin because of the interplay from the Robe lighting and natural sunlight coming in through the Rotunda glass.

Culver City, CA – The “Rebel Headquarters” of The Young Turks television show is not exactly an easy space for a lighting designer to create a conventional grid. LD Dave Feldman, tasked with lighting the webisode and TV episodes, chose lighting gear from 4Wall Entertainment Los Angeles for his 360-degree set filming.