MANCHESTER, TN – Moving lighting fixtures around at a festival often requires some careful logistics. Moving crews around calls for considerable skill too. George Cannon got a first hand view of both recently when he was hired by Harford Sound Ltd. to be the “house LD” at the THAT tent at Bonnaroo. “Harford Sound was […]
NASHVILLE — Head on Collision was not one of New Found Glory’s bigger hits, but the 2002 song lives on today, at least indirectly. A year after the hard-driving metal track was released, a line from its chorus inspired the name of what would become one of this era’s most popular and influential bands, All […]
MONTREAL – In its purest form, creative design knows no boundaries. Like a great painting that may appear one way when gazed upon from the left, only to be transformed when the viewer moves to the right, it morphs into different forms that are as varied as the human heart itself. Lighting designer and DOP […]
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Walking down Sturt Street, it is all but impossible not to be intrigued by the three-story building at the corner of Southbank Boulevard. One look at the Melbourne Recital Hall, with its steel and glass lattice façade resembling a honeycomb, and playfully designed white frame defying rigid conventions, instantly tickles the imagination. […]
MURPHYSBORO, IL – Gerry Dintelman likes creating gobo patterns. He’s quite adept at it too, working magic with swirling forms on the walls, floors and ceilings at an array of venues indoor and out. But never before in his career as a lighting designer has he had a gobo experience like the one he enjoyed […]
NEW HAVEN, CT – Lux Et Veritas, the motto of Yale University translates into “ Light and Truth.” Although “truth” may be hard to pin down, there was no doubt about the light (and unbridled imagination!) that were in the air recently when Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and Eggy took the stage at the Westville […]
SAINT-OURS, QUEBEC – Resourcefulness is always more important than resources. Érik Nowosielski-Lamoureux demonstrated the wisdom of this axiom in July when he lit a Canada Day celebration at the Saint-Ours Canal National Historic Site, about an hour out of Montreal. Faced with a relatively large stage for the size of his rig, Nowosielski-Lamoureux relied on […]
VANDERGRIFT, PA – “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” So wrote the American humorist Charles Addams, whose penchant for poking fun at all things conventional, inspired him to create a series of cartoons that ultimately led to the iconic TV program The Addams Family. Robert John […]
Automotive pioneer Henry Ford hated market research. When explaining why, he supposedly said, “if I asked customers what they wanted when I started, they would have said ‘a faster horse.’” More than a century after Ford launched his namesake company, his quip would lend its name to one of country music’s highest profile festivals. With […]
SAN DIEGO – Last year, during the height of the pandemic, Martin Castañon, Victor Ortiz and the team at Darvik Productions stayed busy, while bringing the joy of music to the public by running “Concerts in Your Car,” a series of drive-in shows at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. In the process they learned quite a bit about teamwork, determination […]
The outdoor stage at the Avondale Brewing Company was smaller than the ones Pigeons Playing Ping Pong normally plays on, probably not much more than 30-feet in length. But adaptation is the order of the day as live music gradually returns throughout much of the USA. Anyway, the size of the stage didn’t matter much; […]
ST. LOUIS – Harmony arises when opposite forces are balanced. Gerry Dintelman demonstrated this ancient philosophical principle in convincing fashion in late March and early April when he lit “I Watched Music On The Internet,” a four-part six-hour livestream marathon featuring 11 different bands. Dintelman’s harmony wasn’t of the gentle flowing yin-yang variety either. Instead, […]