The Spring semester starts next week, but in the meantime, CalArts has this 2 week interim schedule thing. The purpose of it is to take specialty classes and seminars. One of the classes I’m taking is an advanced moving light lab master class that Don arranged for all of the LDs. It’s a two day seminar about programming moving lights and the role more

Okay, I confess: I watched the 44th Presidential Inauguration streaming on CNN while sitting at my desk. It’s just a tad historical, so not one I was about to miss.

And while many of us across the globe didn’t trek to downtown Washington DC with the millions at the National Mall weathering the cold for this more

For those of us interesting in film design, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA, nominations were announced today:

CINEMATOGRAPHY

CHANGELING – Tom Stern

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Claudio Miranda

THE DARK KNIGHT – Wally Pfister

THE READER – Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Anthony Dod Mantle

PRODUCTION DESIGN

CHANGELING – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo

THE DARK KNIGHT more

Next week I am teaching a workshop called Vectorworks for Theatre. As I sit here, planning out the details of what I will teach each day (the workshop is 4 hours a day for 3 consecutive days) I realize what I am really teaching is a drafting course for theatre. We just happen to be using a mouse instead of a pencil and the vectorworks program instead of a piece more

Unless you’re dead above your techie neck, you know that CES, The Consumer Electronics Show, opened this week in Las Vegas amid speculation that it would be a quieter show than in years past. Anyone out there attending?

While I’m not there personally, I’m still flooded with news about new products. Here’s just a couple that have piqued my more