It's Thursday so let's make the most of it...in addition to all the training to do, there is a big movement afoot to light up to 1,500 buildings all across North America as part of #WeMakeEvents #RedAlertRESTART initiative. Check it out and see if you have a venue or a residence that you can light in red on September 1, 2020, and let us know. Here are some options for Thursday, August 20, 2020 to keep you busy as another week continues on its way.
Training & Webcasts:
• Thursday, August 20 @11am Eastern: City Theatrical Wireless DMX Training Webinar 7: RadioScan Spectrum Analyser: a 900MHz and 2.4GHz spectrum analyzer that allows users to easily visualize radio energy, is now available through City Theatrical dealers worldwide (RadioScan software program is available for Windows and MacOS as a free download at: http://www.citytheatrical.com/products/radioscan). As a training resource for this new technology, City Theatrical’s Harrison Hohnholt presents a 30-minute webinar on RadioScan. Register Here.
• Thursday, August 20 @ 8am Pacific: Thea Awards Digital Case Studies: Museums: Experience Thea Awards Case Studies as never before with a 7-part series of interactive digital sessions celebrating the 26th Thea Award Recipients. The Museums case studies feature The Fram Museum in Oslo, The Hebrew Bible Experience in Washington DC, and The Cool Planet Experience in Wicklow, Ireland. Register Here (paid tickets support the Themed Entertainment Association).
• Thursday, August 20 @11am Central: ETC: Using Augment3d for Remote Learning: This session explores using Eos & Augment3d in a remote-learning environment, with look at the stock files that have been created by ETC, and discuss ideas for lighting projects that help students explore the controllable properties of light— even if they can't be in a theater. Register Here.
• Thursday, August 20 @ 11am Central: Martin Professional Learning Sessions: Conceptual Design Principles with Craig Rutherford: Where do you start when tasked with developing a lighting design? What makes a design memorable and interesting? This webinar will explore the fundamentals of visual design with a focus on lighting concerts and developing a coherent style. Register Here.
• Thursday, August 20 @ 1pm Central: Ahead Of The Curve: Content Creation for the World of Extended Reality (xR): Join Geoffrey Platt from Ahead of the Curve and Shannon Harvey from Creative Alchemy One as they speak about techniques, workflows and concepts of working out how to create great content in this quickly growing age of extended reality. Watch Here.
An Important Conversation:
• Live Design and USITT co-hosted "A Conversation On Diversity And Anti-Racism In Entertainment Design," moderated by David Stewart, production manager for Disney Parks Live Entertainment, and an important voice in the ongoing quest to increase diversity in our industry. The full panel for this important discussion includes lighting designers Rachael Blackwell, Porsche McGovern, and Xavier Pierce, lighting/projection designer Roma Flowers, lighting designer/event coordinator Ebony Madry, and production manager Lawrence Bennett. Watch Here.
For Your Viewing Enjoyment:
* Dutch National Ballet: World Premiere: The Prometheus Project: Out of love for mankind, Prometheus defied the gods by stealing their fire and sharing it with man. For The Prometheus Project, choreographers Remi Wörtmeyer, Wubkje Kuindersma and Ernst Meisner created solos departing from different aspects of the Prometheus myth, all set to piano music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Seven minutes of wonderful dancing:
• Tuesday August 18 @ 7pm Eastern: The Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams: Tosca: Week 23 of operas from The Met archives. Watch Here.
• Manual Cinema: No Blue Memories: The Life Of Gwendolyn Brooks: No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks brings to life the story of one of Chicago’s most beloved figures. She was an icon, a poet laureate, and a Pulitzer Prize winner—but she was also a treasured educator and mentor to the countless writers and children who knew her as their very own “Miss Brooks.” Puppet design by Drew Dir and Lizi Breit, sound design and effects by Ben Kauffman, lighting design by Claire Chrzan, costume and wig design by Mieka van der Ploeg, sound engineered by Mike Usrey and Kim Kozak. (Thru August 23) Watch Here.
trailer:
• Cirque du Soleil Behind The Curtain of Toruk, The First Flight, inspired by James Cameron's Avatar. See how Avatar went from screen to stage. Watch Here.
• Broadway Bares: Zoom In: Don't miss the first online version of Broadway Bares, the signature sensational striptease produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Although this year’s in-person 30th anniversary celebration, originally set for June 21, was postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual evening will live on digitally through this streamed sizzling striptease featuring NYC’s hottest dancers. Watch Here.
Training & Webcasts When You Want:
The Creative Quarantine Sessions: John Iacovelli: Join Alexander Whittenberg as he interviews award-winning theatre/film/TV scenic designer John Iacovelli. Watch Here.
• History In The Making: Steve Terry In Conversation With Dave Cunningham and Gordon Pearlman... A time machine talk about the advent of computer-controlled lighting consoles. Watch Here.
• Elation Professional Online Learning Center: Provides lighting professionals with easy-to-access learning options, the new resource site is full of free educational and training material. Watch Here.
• The Elation Hour: A series of interviews with leading designers from film/TV, theatre, concerts, corporate events, festivals, and more... Watch here.
• Scott Parker: A lot of training videos to choose from, from his Stage Seminars to a book review of Richard Pilbrow's Stage Lighting Design. Watch Here and Here (Stage Seminars)
• Lighting designer Mike Woods: Online training videos. Watch Here.
• Ross Video: Ross Live | 2020: A weekly series of presentations, podcasts, and product launches designed to highlight best practices across a range of live production environments. Watch Here.
• MA Lighting grandMA3 onPC command wing XT: A new member of its grandMA3 onPC solutions range: the grandMA3 onPC command wing XT. With the grandMA3 onPC software pre-installed on a built-in MA motherboard, the grandMA3 onPC command wing XT offers MA3 power with onPC flexibility– just add up to four touchscreen monitors, and it's ready to go! Watch Here.
• GLP 10 Out Of 10 With Tom Campbell: This is the extended 10 Out Of 10 interview featuring revolutionary LD Tom Campbell, who has extensive portfolio including The Hunna, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Zeds Dead, John Grant, and Bullet For My Valentine and many more!. Watch Here.
• Elation Virtual At Home Demos: Overview of the key features and unique benefits of some of Elation’s newest lighting products, a demonstration that gives lighting pros an opportunity to assess if a luminaire is right for their needs. Products showcased include the Fuze Spot™, Fuze Pendant™, Fuze Profile™, Fuze SFX™, Smarty Max™, Artiste Van Gogh™, Artiste Monet™, Dartz 360™, CW Profile HP™ and WW Profile HP™ ellipsoidals, along with the Magma Prime™ hazer from Magmatic atmospheric effects. Watch Here.
• Strand Lighting: Theatre Systems Design Basics. Presented by Bobby Harrell. Watch Here.
• frame.work videos are now online, a conference for video professionals. Watch Here.
• 4Wall Entertainment: Archives for Sunday Roundtables and Thursday Tales From The Road. Watch Here.
• ETC Story Q&A with Tom Littrell: thoughts from Outreach and Training Specialist Tom Littrell on LEDs. Read Here.
• Unreal Interactive Demo. Watch Here.
• Opera America – live streams.
• ETC On Headset: The Billington Files
• TDF Stages, list of streaming performances updated daily.
Podcasts:
• USITT Podcast: TECHnically Speaking: Clint C. Clarke has worn many professional hats so far in his career – from working in arenas, to the wireless team for Barack Obama’s inauguration, Clint now calls the Most Magical Place on Earth his home as he works as the audio designer for Disney Parks Live Entertainment. Listen Here.
• Artistic Finance Podcast: Ethan Steimel interviews Steve Woods, one of The Lumen Brothers who is usually heard on the podcast Light Talk, about his journey from being an on-the-road lighting designer to becoming a professor of lighting design. Listen Here.
• Signal To Noise Podcast: Episode 61 delves deep into the art of theatrical sound design with guests Jason Crystal (associate sound designer, Hamilton, The Cher Show) and Elisheba Ittoop (sound designer, The Edge of Night, A Raisin In the Sun, Testmatch). The conversation with co-hosts Michael Lawrence and Willa Snow explores how technical tools help achieve artistic goals, and comparing and contrasting sound design for musicals and straight plays. Listen Here.
• Light Talk With The Lumen Brothers: Caribbean Dreaming: The Lumen Brothers welcome their good friend and LiveDesignOnline guru and LDI creative director, Ellen Lampert-Greaux. Join Brackley, David, Ellen, Stan, and Steve as they discuss: Cruising around Tierra del Fuego in the Light Talk Catamaran; Letter from Campbell (our youngest fan); A meal for Toffee; Ellen's octopus story; The history of LDI; Steve reveals the secret password for LDI; The Earthquake at the Infomart; The Donner Party on their way to LDI Reno; The Hall of Fog; Blowing up cars in Reno; BAM years; Living as an ExPat; Ellen's detour; Organizing how to run a film festival without a cinema; "Octopus on a Stick"; Ellen's views on the future of the Entertainment Industry; and Expanding revenue streams in a post Covid world. Listen Here.
• In 1 Podcast: Changing the Landscape – Episode 2: It’s Not That We Don’t Exist: Perception of the Unknown: In this episode, the first of two parts, Steve Jones, former director of production at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, sits down with LD Alan C. Edwards to tell us where he came from. Beginning with his origins in Flint, Michigan where he started taking part in theatre activities in grade school, Steve started taking theatre seriously after a sports injury sidelined him for the remainder of his college career. He walks us through his experiences in applying for grad schools, leaving Flint, MI, and his first big-time job in New York City at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Listen Here.
• Get A Grip On Lighting Podcast: Leadership Under Covid: Kevin Poyck just had his legs under him as CEO and president of Signify’s Americas Market Group when the outbreak threw his business into chaos. He shares his thoughts on virtual offices, managing at a distance, and the shape of post-pandemic normalcy. What really brought him to our show today was a recent study at Boston University that confirmed how effective a new Signify UVC lamp really is, which leads to a vintage Philips UV disinfection manual and the modern rush for germicidal lamps. It’s time for us all to turn a page as we proceed out of our current crisis. Listen Here.
• LD At Large With Chris Lose: Recent episodes include Michael Berger, Seth Robinson, and Rob Koenig. Listen Here.
• The Evolution of Special Effects With John Canning of Digital Domain: Tyler Gates and Sophia Moshasha catch up with John Canning, executive producer at Digital Domain, to talk about how animation and special effects in media production have evolved to become higher quality, less costly, and easier to achieve with immersive technology. Listen Here.
Industry Resources:
• USITT Women In Theatre Network