Live Design Concert Master Classes in LA December 11 & 12, 2010

Mark your calendar, Live Design is holding another series of Master Classes this winter in Los Angles, the Live Design Master Classes.  Similar to the Broadway Master Classes that were held on the east coast in the spring, Live Design has organized classes on the west coast.

Join creative consultant Jeff Ravitz and a faculty of top designers for two-days of sessions on concert lighting and projection applications and techniques. Get inspired. Get great information. Get a chance to network with the best designers on the concert stage today. Get a look at cutting-edge lighting, projection, and staging technology. Get insight into this exciting aspect of the entertainment business!

Two noted speakers at the LDMC will be Anne Militello, president of Vortex Lighting in LA and the head of the graduate lighting department at California Institute of the Arts. Joining Anne will be legendary concert lighting designer and author Jim Moody.  Mr. Moody is the head of the Technical Theatre Program, technical director, and lighting designer for The Theatre Academy at Los Angeles City College.

n addition to the Concert Master Classes, LDI and Live Design invite you to join them for Backstage Disney Day on Friday, December 10—featuring the new World of Color spectacular—and a full Technical Training Day on Monday, December 13 with hands-on training including moving lights programming on a cutting-edge Avolites console; and media server programming on the Green Hippo Hippotizer.

Just when you thought there was nothing to do during the long winter days, Live Design brings you yet another place to learn and experince all things related to concert lighting.  What are you waiting for, head over to registration and book your seat for the Live Design Concert Master Classes!

iSquint.net Podcast: Episode 10 – Jim Moody Session at USITT 2010

I am quickly coming to the end of my USITT 2010 coverage. This has got to be one of the best sessions that was held during the conference on lighting.  Mr. Jim Moody , Paul Dexter and Libby Gray held a panel discussion, So you wanna Rock and Roll? The panel talked at great lengths about what it’s like to be out on tour and the whole lifestyle that is associated with it. On top of that, they gave out some really helpful advice to help you succeed in that line of work.

I do have to mention that there is some profanity used in this episode of the podcast.  I do try to keep the podcast clean and suitable for all ages, but when you get a bunch of road veterans in one room, the f-bombs seem to drop pretty easy. So consider this as my parental advisory!

Don’t forget, you can also subscribe and download the iSquint Podcast right from iTunes!  That way you can listen to me ramble on at times right from the comfort of your iPod, IPhone or iPad! You can also download the podcast right here from the site and put it on your none apple portable device, just click Download the Podcast below in the Media Player below.

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A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting, Second Edition

We received a message from Steve Shelly, the author of A Practical Guide To Stage Lighting, that the second edition of the book is getting ready to hit the shelves. The Second edition is 480 pages with over sixty new topics, twenty new forms and fifteen new drafting presentations not previously found in the first edition.

The first edition of PG2SL followed the process and explained one set of methods used to create and apply paperwork that culminated in a fully mounted lighting design for the musical Hokey. This second edition pulls back the wizard’s curtain to reveal the step-by-step processes involved in the creation and realization of that lighting design. Shelley expands his focus and provides his diacritical analysis into the methods and processes that take place to create the light plot and a lighting design in the first place.

From the back cover, Jim Moody writes:

If you are looking for esoteric design theory, this is not the book for you. However, if you need a get-down-to-business, everything you think you needed to know, nothing left out, lists of questions you should ask, answers you should consider, check lists, and the most extensive graphic layout of forms and focus information in any book, then this second edition has answered all your questions and a bunch you didn’t think you needed to know. You have got to have this book if you consider yourself a professional, period.

A Practical Guide To Stage Lighting, Second Edition goes on sale starting October 5, 2009 from Focal Press at $49.95 USD.  To learn more about the book and to get your copy, visit www.focalpress.com.