CLEVELAND – “Rock N Roll will never die!” The phrase has echoed down through the years since 1952, when a Cleveland disc jockey popularized the phrase to describe a new genre of music that was beginning to sweep the USA. Rock music has indeed never died, but instead has grown only stronger over the ensuing […]
NEWARK – With its iconic bandshell set against the majestic backdrop of its namesake hills, the more-than-a-century-old Hollywood Bowl casts a uniquely captivating spell. It’s easy to see why Rolling Stone named the legendary amphitheater, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, one of the USA’s ten best live music venues. Replicating this […]
NEW YORK – “The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.” William Faulker said this when accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich explores two such hearts in the play “Job,” which recently made its Broadway debut at The Helen Hayes Theatre after a critically acclaimed […]
NASHVILLE – When lighting designer Rodger Pugh, his co-designer Craig Richter ,and production manager Joey Dileo began working on the lighting for Halestorm’s current tour, they collectively developed a clear vision for the show’s final design. Through this collaboration, they came up with a concept that was “somewhere between “an “80s rock show and a […]
NASHVILLE – Back in the 1930’s, a newspaper reporter asked the well-known bank robber, Willie Sutton why he robbed banks. Sutton was said to have replied, “because that’s where the money is.” Matthieu Larivee and the team at Luz Studio had no such nefarious purpose in mind when they designed Jason Aldean’s 24-city Highway Desperado […]
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Rutgers’ school colors are scarlet, gray, and black. But for the Friday night football game against Washington on September 27, the university asked students and fans to dress in all black when they entered SHI Stadium. The football team itself donned all black uniforms for the game. No, this wasn’t a night […]
Czaplinek, Poland – British poet John Ruskin once declared ‘you get what you pay for.’ Although his quip has been repeated often over the past two centuries, it isn’t always true. A beautiful case in point is Pol’and’Rock, a three-day event held at the Czaplinek-Broczyno Airfield that bills itself as “the largest free festival in Europe.” Inspired […]
AXTON, VA – With its 150 acres of pastoral meadows dotted by tranquil ponds surround by tall pines and flowering trees, Pops Farm is alive with color throughout the year. At no time though is this celebration of hues as bold and exciting as it is in the early summer, when the farm is home […]
LOS ANGELES – It’s no wonder that the wildly popular WOW – Women Of Wrestling TV series’ acronym is also those three simple letters: W O W. This branding theme is there for all to see in the current season of the series, as the two Ws, from this powerfully evocative expression are spelled out […]
PARIS – On November 21, 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes made history when they became the first humans ever to leave the earth and take flight in a hot air balloon. As the two men soared, as if by magic, over the hills of Butte-aux-Cailles, they ushered in a new chapter […]
Working with a stunning production design by Travis Shirley, lighting designer Ignacio “Iggy” Rosenberg of Lightswitch, artfully mapped every pixel across more than 300 pieces of Color STRIKE M motorized strobe/wash fixtures in the massive set for Karol G’s show at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium for the superstar’s Madrid stop on her 62-date Mañana Será Bonito […]
VENICE – Napoleon called it “the drawing room of Europe,” but Piazza San Marco is much more than that. For centuries, this 12,128 m2 trapezoidal space bordering the Bay of San Marco has been an enchanted spot of beauty and inspiration that has worked its magic on poets, artists, dreamers, and, of course, millions of […]