I thought I’d make everyone aware of that Apollo has a gobo contest going on right now where you can vote for some new designs, submitted by other designers, that will be added to the stock gobo catalog. I did not enter this year, but I have a handful of friends who submitted work and hope they win. I will be fair and will not mention which ones more…

I would have to say that my Spring semester was pretty packed and I am relieved that it is over for the time being. It is nice to have two years of grad school under my belt. I haven’t blogged much, because I really haven’t been around. As a quick recap here are some of the exciting things I got to do this semester:

In January school started more…

Known for his fabulous lighting of TV awards shows, such as the Oscars, Bob Dickinson has been pegged to light the new Tonight Show on NBC, hosted by Conan O’Brien. In fact, Bob was mentioned in an article in USA Today, where O’Brien refers to him as “one of Hollywood’s top lighting directors.” How true, how true!

The good news is that the campaign to mobilize the lighting industry to fight the proposed Texas House Bill 2649 appears to be working: reports coming out of ESTA and IALD indicate that the legislators offices are being flooded with calls.

The bad news: some of those calls have been a little rude.

The legislator’s offices are reporting some nasty comments mixed in with the reasoned pleas, and both ESTA and IALD more…

In a Sunday, May 24 article entitled Setting The Stage With Shadows, J.D. Biersdorfer in The New York Times examines the work of the celebrated stage designer Robert Edmond Jones (1887-1954). The article examines Jones’ designs for a 1930 production of the Schoenberg Opera, Die Glückliche Hand, (The Hand of Fate), in which lighting casts shadows on the expressionistic set of craggy peaks. The drawing pictured in the Times more…