Idea Recording Gear: Analog Versus Digital, The Smackdown
Once, my friend and Ronnie Dunn's production manager Mike Adams happened upon me drawing in my little black notebook in which I record my set design ideas, doodles, and concepts, he exclaimed "Time to get an iPad, Analog Kenny!" I do own an iPad, and I do use it, and it got me to wondering: why don...
Zoetrope Sculptures are Cool, Trippy
Zoetropes may have been invented thousands of years ago (Wikipedia says around 100 BCE), the technology can still be used to today for some very cool effects. I first saw the 3D zoetrope effect at a Blue Man Group show with "dancers" off the side, and again at the Animation building at Disney Calif...
Fetishizing Incandescents
A recent post on a production-related website talked about the gradual shift toward LEDs and fluorescent lighting as a double-edged sword - citing the uncomfortableness of the spectral qualities of fluorescent and LED light as a reason that people will simply leave areas lit with these sources and s...
Pixel Dance Show - Woah, Dude
Pixel (Link is in French, which I do not speak.) is a an interactive dance event that uses projection-mapping to create some very impressive illusions. It bills itself as "a work on illusion combining energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus" and from the video below...