A Picture Perfect Christmas
Lighting Co
Performance Lighting/Stewart Independent
Venue
Grand Rapids First Assembly of God, Grandville, MI Read More »
Bad Decisions
Do you realize our lives are in danger every day we step out onto a stage? It is unnerving to think about it. There are thousands of pounds of pipes, truss, wiring; you name it above our heads. Of course we work under the assumption all of the equipment is hung correct and safe. Unfortunately, accidents happen. This was the case this past summer with not just one stage collapse, but around the globe.
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Lysistrata Jones, Lit by Michael Gottlieb
Lysistrata Jones, which recently finished a brief run on Broadway, was a fun, breezy, loose take on the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, about the titular character’s desire to end The Peloponnesian War by having Greek women withhold sex from their lovers until peace is negotiated.
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Light and Video Artist David Linton
David Linton’s recent sound and video installation, The Cortical Degausser, which was featured at New York’s Clocktower Gallery Nov. 1-Jan. 13, employed synchronous and proportional sound and colored light pulsation delivered via video signal and viewed from special stations. As a result of the frequency of pulsation, closed-eye visions of spontaneous geometry was experienced by most individuals while their eyes are open. While Linton’s work exteriorizes and socializes flicker phenomenon, it leads to an unusual interactivity that occurs in the neurologic chain of each viewer.
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TPI Melds Media Seamlessly
It was a corporate convention, but the high-level financial institute sponsoring it wanted to make sure it was anything but conventional. Their agents only convened once every three years, and the month-long event needed to make a deep and lasting impression. The location: Las Vegas. The production company: St. Louis-based Technical Productions, Inc (TPI).
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