Spectacle or art: backline techs weigh in
A few years ago when I started working with one of the country music artists that I design lights for now, we had a backline and patch tech from a very large, very well-known sound company1 who, to put it mildly, had opinions on what concerts should and should not be. According to this individual,...
Interesting Art, Overdone Art
What haven't I done in a while? Posted on the Blueshift Design Blog! So let's rectify that today and bring to your attention some pretty art installations I've recently run across, and one that is so overdone and trite that I had to mention it out of anger.
First off, the one I didn't like, an i...
Building complex set geometry
Recently, I've been making some updated packets to send to potential clients. Included in them are some set designs that I've done in the past for artists both large and small, to show clients the range of my design abilities. One of the things that I like to do - especially with smaller set designs...
"Polythread knitted textile pavilion" at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
"Polythread knitted textile pavilion" may sound more like something Tim Gunn might ask his designers to go shopping in than an art installation, but it's an art installation, part of Cooper-Hewitt's design triennial, that uses 3D digitally-knitted (!) fabric elements, phosphorescent and drake yarns,...