Me and a few thousand close friends (and some random hot cyber-girls, for whom I allowed an exception to the 'no unauthorized persons on the stage' rule) at last year's Katsucon rave!

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"Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star act. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you ( Read more... )

I am doing lights for the Good Faeries' Ball and Bad Faeries' Ball at The Trocadero this weekend, featuring some very good medieval/goth bands you might want to come see (because they are very good, and because they don't play the US often -- if at all ( Read more... )

Philadelphia Zombie Prom '08 - Trocadero Theater 09.28.08


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Check out this Philadelphia Weekly coverage of Zombie Prom 2008, held at the Trocadero Theater this past Sunday (and lit, of course, by me)!

You can see my handiwork in the dancefloor shots. Hooray for L139 and L181... The whole club was a sea of green and deep-blue/ultraviolet. Spoooooky.

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What am I looking at here?
Bad cameraphone video of my apartment windows, transformed into 3 video screens. I used the windows' Venetian blinds as the projection surface... what you are seeing is the image AFTER it has passed through the thick white plastic of the blinds!

What is on the screens?The music video for "Only" by Nine Inch Nails, ( Read more... )

From their show / DVD shoot at the Trocadero in January for which I was the lighting and set designer.

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Peace And Love, Incorporated

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Friday: Outdoor gig at Six Flags Great Adventure in NJ with beta58. 16 moving lights (8 MAC300, 6 MAC250 Entour, 2 MAC250 Krypton), 2 Atomic 3000 strobes, and 8 LED fixtures, for lighting a DJ rig onstage and providing some downstage dance-area flash. Here's a picture from early in the night, right after soundcheck:


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Two weekends ago kraftwink and I provided the lighting rig for the Download Festival's main stage at the Susquehanna Bank Center, featuring The Killers and Iggy And The Stooges (for the technically-inclined: we brought 12 Mac2000 Performance, 120K of PAR, 4 ACL's, 3 Molefay blinders, and 4 Atomic3000 strobes). The show also featured an enjoyable performance ( Read more... )

It's been a while since my last post, for good reason. My iBook, my faithful electronic companion since 2003, finally died. It still boots up, but there is a short somewhere in the logic board (motherboard) which causes it to freeze if the laptop is picked up or moved ( Read more... )