Willie Williams is a remarkably calm man, but giving birth can do that to you. We’re inside Camp Nou, situated in a residential neighborhood in the hills above Barcelona, Spain, normally home to FC Barcelona of soccer fame but these days serving as the world’s largest maternity ward for the world’s largest baby. And Willie is sharing details of the birthing process as only a tired but proud papa can.

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We just wrapped the panel discussion on choosing projectors, playback, and surfaces with Adam Dunaway (Digital Stage Chicago), Loren Barton (TMB), Rene Berhorst (MA Lighting), and designers Zak Borovay and Elaine McCarthy. An hour and a half to cover a lifetime’s worth of material—but a very engaging discussion. I’m always torn at these things by trying to skirt the line between communicating practically useful information and presenting entertaining anecdotes.

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So I am sitting here at the 2009 LiveDesign Broadway Projection Master Classes and they asked me to blog about the events of the day. So here it goes…

I’ve been fortunate to be involved in every PMC since their inception. Here’s my favorite moment - without fail, at the end of the wrap up “future of design” discussion, someone (usually a younger person) asks “how do we do this thing more

Shocked and dismayed to hear that Craig Redden died yesterday in LA… Craig and I had done many shows together, first with Westsun, later with Q1 and the new Epic… He was always a dynamo, a huge source of energy, and somebody who truly loved his business. I’m going to miss him terribly…

Yesterday was certainly a mission of discovery. As I walked the floor with my students from CalArts, we were rooting out many new and interesting twists (sometimes literally). One of yesterday’s best discoveries for me was the DigiLED DigiFlex. it’s a high resolution SMD based LED product that comes in a rubber form factor that allows you to bend it curve it, or wring it out like more