I saw Nine Inch Nails at the Izod Center in New Jersey Wednesday evening. Roy Bennett has created another striking design for this Lights In The Sky Tour¸ one that rollingstone.com has already called “a 21st-century marriage of old-school showmanship and bleeding-edge technology…” The design is not something you see every day, in a good way. Completely immersing the band in LED screens is just one of the many more

Earlier this year we noted that Bruce Rodgers was the set designer for this year’s Democratic National Convention. So when Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party nomination for President tonight at Invesco Field, on the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, he’ll be doing so while standing on Bruce’s work. Pretty heady stuff, when you think about it.

Rodgers, for his part, sounds to be more

For me, the approach of September has always meant a ramp up in activity. Sometimes it was learning, sometimes getting that first gig, sometimes getting ready to tour, finally now, getting ready to pound out some back to back to back shows. In the next 8 weeks, MODE will have Nickelback doing stadiums in Europe, The PBS special Joyful Noise, with the Boston Pops and assorted rock stars more

Everytime I write a story with a large gear list, I try as hard as possible to get all the information correct. It’s not always as easy as it seems— and the opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Beijing is a perfect example. Since the lighting designer and rental company folks over there speak only Chinese, and I admit to being deficient in that department, my contact on-site was Australian more

Photo by Michal Slaga

In response to my blog of July 14 about a UFO sighting, one of the creators of the project contacted me to say that, in fact, the hovering craft was real. Dominic Harris of Cinimod Studios in London says that the massive, seven-meter in diameter “UFO” was covered in 60 strands of Color Kinetics/Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions iColor® more