The Judds at the Venetian
Recently, Blueshift Design contracted to provide lighting and set design for The Judds: Girl's Night Out residency at the Venetian in Las Vegas.
This is one of my favorite shows that I've ever done to date, not only because the Venetian is a very beautiful theatrical space with a large and well-...
Lighting Versus Video!
The Blueshift Design Blog has lain dormant for a month or two, due to excessive business designing two shows (including our first Las Vegas residency!) gearing up for LDI, and work on a new podcast. Stay tuned!
Way back in the day, video screens were really heavy, really dim, and prone to really...
Review of the TMB Firefly
Recently, I evaluated a (relatively) new product from TMB - the Firefly, which is a festoon-style light that uses warm white LEDs as the source. The attributes I was specifically interested in were the quality of the light (obviously) but also the durability and ease of rigging / hanging.
On the...
GLASS - groovy tech from MIT
The young wizards at MIT are now 3D-printing molten glass, which is one of the more unexpectedly beautiful uses of that technology. And while the process itself is really cool from a purely technological standpoint, it's near the end of the video when the pieces are on display that we get to see som...