Deorro
Lighting Co:
East Coast Lighting & Production Services (ECLPS)
Venue
House of Blues
Boston MA
Three Morpheus Guys Walk Into a Bar…
I stopped down at the USITT show last month in St. Louis. I enjoy going to this show for a day every year to watch all the enthusiasm that thousands of kids have for the Arts. Plus, it’s great to see the various vendors giving back their knowledge to the next generation. Since the government seems to care little about the arts during the current administration it’s so much more important to see the other companies that did show up to pass knowledge.
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LD Ignacio “Iggy” Rosenberg with Tesla
DATES: January-August.
DESIGN: “They’re not used to a ‘design’ — this is their first in years.”
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Significant Other
Scenic Designer Mark Wendland on the Art of Subtle Transformations
Significant Other is an unusual Broadway comedy. What starts off as a lighthearted tale of an awkward young gay man named Jordan who is lonely in love while his group of close girlfriends start to slowly pair off leads to an existential crisis. As he approaches age 30, he realizes he does not know how to make romantic connections and is in danger of being left behind in the coupling game.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers ‘Getaway’ Tour 2017
The Red Hot Chili Peppers currently have the largest kinetic lighting rig for a tour, with a matrix of 1,040 LED cylinders rising and falling to create a seemingly endless array of unique show looks. PLSN caught up with longtime RHCP production designer and lighting director Scott Holthaus, media server programmer Leif Dixon and, handling video direction backstage, George Elizondo for their insights on this trek.
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Welcome to the Jungle
Warren Flynn and Max Mackintosh Brave Insects, Reptiles and More to Light an Alien Spaceship for the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival
The Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival (OMF) returned to Florida this year on March 2-5 for its second year. Once again, festival producer Soundslinger offered the main stage lighting duties to Max Mackintosh, a young man trying to make his LD bones in America.
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Lighting Latitude 30 at SXSW 2017
Saturday Night Lights Shines All Week at SXSW Club Venue for the British Music Embassy
Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, South by Southwest (SXSW) is the largest music festival of its kind in the world. Best known for its convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries, the live music portion of this year’s festival took place over the course of a week in mid-March.
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Eric Clapton’s Production Design: The Art of Negative Space
Dave Maxwell’s Production Design Supports a Legendary Guitarist
Eric Clapton has enjoyed a long career of live performances all over the globe. A little while back he turned 70 and announced his retirement from the touring circuit. But not from performing entirely. He just wanted to do it on his own terms. For the past 22 years, Dave Maxwell has looked after keeping the artist illuminated amongst other things as they traveled.
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JoJo Mad Love Tour 2017
Lighting designer and director Matt Guminski is out on the road with singer/songwriter JoJo. In 2004, “Leave (Get Out),” her debut single, reached number one on the Billboard pop songs chart, which made her the youngest solo artist to have a number-one single in the U.S., at 13 years old. We spoke to Guminski about JoJo’s current Mad Love tour during the artist’s sold-out Feb. 19 tour stop at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco.
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