Altinex Names Grant Cossey VP of Sales
LD Jason Bullock Lights the Way for Korn’s “Path of Totality”
Andrea Bocelli in Central Park
Lighting designer Bob Barnhart has 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry under his belt, including 17 years as an LD working on the Academy Awards, the Grammy Awards, the Miss USA Pageant and with performances by musical artists ranging from Barbara Streisand to The Rolling Stones. He also has a theatre background, worked for Flying By Foy for seven years. But no matter how much experience one has accumulated, there is always something new to contend with, and in the case of the well-received Andrea Bocelli concert in Central Park this past September — captured on the new live DVD, Concerto: One Night In Central Park — the unknown factor was Mother Nature herself. “It’s the wind that really did us in,” Barnhart tells PLSN when discussing his design work on the event. The show still looked great, despite the rain during the first half of the show that had umbrellas popping up everywhere.
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Katy Perry: 2011 California Dreams Tour
Katy Perry’s 2011 tour, California Dreams, began its 123-show run in Europe in February, ending in the U.K. in April, with May spent in Japan and Australia. The summer North American leg of the tour included stops in 51 cities from June to September. The tour’s last scheduled date was at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Nov. 22. On Nov. 23 — the night before Thanksgiving — Perry marked the end of the tour with an additional performance, “Katy Perry Gives Thanks.” Admission to the show was free.
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Jonathan Beswick: Making Def Leppard’s Big Looks Bigger
For Def Leppard’s 2011-2012 Mirrorball tour, show designer and video director Jonathan Beswick, who has been providing the band with distinctive video looks since 2006, worked with LD Kenji Ohashi to go beyond mere I-Mag to fuse lighting and video into rock ‘n’ roll looks that are even bigger than those achieved on previous tours. Higher-resolution video panels — and more of them — made that goal possible, and lighter-weight gear helped keep the production’s rigging, setup and tear down challenges in check.
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Amnesia in Miami
The Club Reopens with a New DJ, Roof and Memorable Visual Experience
Known as one of the hottest nightclubs in Miami back in the early 1990s when owners Gregory and Andre Boudou introduced house and trance music, huge foam parties and a European, open-ceiling grotto style layout to South Florida partygoers, Amnesia has returned in 2011 with the Boudous joined by DJ Bob Sinclair.
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A Word About Marketable Skills
If you’re just starting your career in the biz, please gather round the campfire. Perhaps more important, if you have children entering high school, college or a university — please read on. As I climb up on my soapbox, this is a subject that I’ve preached about for years, and in our harsh economic climate, it still rings true.
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Creative Stage Lighting: “Making the Magic Happen” for Close to 35 Years
“It’s been a helluva ride,” declares George Studnicky III, owner of Creative Stage Lighting (CSL). “We’ve had good growth throughout our history, and now we’re rebuilding from a 32,000 square foot space and adding another 75,000 to that, which will allow Creative Stage Lighting to create another 25 jobs.”
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