I received a review copy of a Historic Photos of Broadway, a great “coffee table-style” book put out by Turner Publishing (copyright 2008) with amazing pictures–obviously–dating from 1850 to 1970. With images from the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, text and captions were written by Back Stage editor Leonard Jacobs.

You can find the book on Amazon. I’ve just been more

Hello, Live Design Online readers, I’m Jim from Jim On Light. Thanks for having me!

I was reading through the Live Design Online blog and Marian’s post about the Laser Street Signals inspired me to report about a few other light and road/driving related devices that I found recently. I was going to write my first post about how fun it is to have a friend named more

If you were in the New York metro area this morning, and you happened to be within the range of FM radio station 97.1 (or Hot 97, as it’s affectionately called), and listening around 7:35 or so, you would have heard Kanye West sharing his philosphy on–of all things–production design. He started talking about how he has been in discussions with folks like Gwen Stefani and Trent Reznor, and basically more

You may have heard that Nick Jackson left PRG a few weeks ago after 10 or so years there. Well, since John Wiseman also left XL Video a couple of months ago, the two found each other and have just formed Chaos Visual Productions. Jackson says the new venture will be “providing video production services to concert tours and special events, and are very fortunate to be already working on more

ESTA released this today:

The following proposed amendment to the Economic Stimulus Package was just brought to our attention. Obviously it could have a major impact on our industry. Please read and act today!

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has introduced an amendment to prohibit any funds in the economic stimulus bill from going to museums, casinos, aquariums, theaters, art centers. As such, it thus would bar from Federal Economic Recovery funding many more