WASHINGTON, DC – It’s been said that every great building has a personality. The massive Renaissance Revival structure, located just a little over a mile from The White House, hosts many of them within its towering walls. Home of The National Building Museum, it features multiple exhibits of architectural brilliance, but in terms of “personality,” […]
TORONTO – Alex Mungal readily admits it: he can get pretty nerdy when it comes to Star Trek. Metal music fans who packed venues in 33-cities for Motionless in White’s just-concluded Touring The End Of The World tour of North America can readily understand why. Channeling his fascination with all things Galactic, Mungal opened a […]
LAS VEGAS – A lot can happen in a month. Just ask Antonio Herrera Pérez, better known to the world as Mexican music superstar Junior H. A few short years ago, as a high school student in Utah, the Guanajuato-born musician-singer uploaded some of his work on YouTube as “a hobby.” The daily flow of […]
NASHVILLE – Where does the design process begin? For Erich Bertti, the answer is clear. “When conceiving a design, my first concern is for it to be versatile,” said the Santos, Brazil-based designer. Bertti hooked up with the perfect creative soul twin this summer when he created the lightshow for Grammy-winning Swedish hard rockers Ghost […]
AUSTIN – How can I balance my lighting with a massive video structure so the two work together in harmony? Virtually all lighting designers have asked themselves this question — and with good reason! Like some giant planetary object that bends spacetime and pulls everything around it into its gravitational orbit, big video walls have […]
AUSTIN – A change of scenery brings more than new sights, it also opens eyes to see familiar things in new ways. The 2023 CMT Music Awards provided stunningly beautiful proof of that. Moved from Nashville to Austin this year, the three-hour event, which was broadcast on CBS, radiated a fresh, vibrant energy that instantly […]
LOS ANGELES – Artistic inspiration often finds its most fertile ground outside the gates of convention. Such was the case with the lighting and production design that Max Lenox and Andrew Goedde created for Mt. Joy on the band’s current world tour. While conventional wisdom advises not to mix too many colors on stage at […]
MIAMI – Fans who expected to see a flowering of unfolding colorful looks during Premio Lo Nuestro weren’t disappointed. Whether watching on Univision, or as part of the live audience, they were treated to a constant flow of captivating vistas in support of over 30 different performances by stars like Maluma, Mar Anthony, Christian Nodal, […]
MIAMI – How do you say goodbye to a legend? For the creative team involved in designing the production for Daddy Yankee’s La Ultima Vuelta tour, the answer was quite simple, you create something “fit for a king.” This was the directive that production designer Rodrigo Proal of Darmah Studios received when he was asked […]
NASHVILLE – It is every designer’s dream: to overcome the limitations of time and space and allow the creative vision that originally sparked a project to be expressed to its fullest. Steve Cohen and Bob Bonniol journeyed very far in the direction of this nirvanic state recently when they collaborated on the production and lighting […]
LAS VEGAS – The 23rd The Latin Grammy Awards, which took place at the Mandalay Bay Resort’s Michelob Ultra Arena, defied easy categorization, being big, bold, and sensuously stunning one moment, then delivering soft, intimate moments the next. This was evident right from the start of the three-hour show, as it began with a brief, […]
LOS ANGELES – When Allen Branton and the rest of the production team saw their design concept for the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction in place at the Microsoft Theater, their first reaction was something along the lines of “wow, this feels really modern!” This might have come as a surprise to […]