It's awards season so that means two-for-one. We worked on the big Recording Academy Grammy post party at the convention center, as well as the Sequoia-produced Governors Ball for the Oscars. Such a great honor to be involved with both. Seriously, we feel super lucky that we continue to get invited back to work on two of the premier special events in the world. Grammys had a CandyLand type feel - Like Katy Perry CandyLand - kind of psychedelic and really fun for guests. Oscars was gorgeous and subdued and masculine and classy. I don't have a shot of our Oscars room and it's the last day of the month so rather than blow the post, I've included a shot of the broadcast stage. That thing was gorgeous - It's all about content - You can have massive projection or LED, but without stellar content, it's just gear. Here's to the creative types!!
Visual Artist Chris Milk is touring the world with a large scale interactive Triptych, which has stopped at the Sundance Film Festival this week. Don't worry, I had to look up Triptych, too. It's a story of birth, death and transfiguration realized on three massive projection screens. We did the lighting, video and audio installation for producer Mitch Kirsch at Planet Events who rep'ed Milk and his team. This is three big screens with a shallow reflecting pool in front of them. Guests come up to each of the screens and their shadows are digitally captured and reprojected. Milk's software then paints the shadows with 3D models of birds growing, then deconstructing, then experiencing rebirth. Really Cool. Massive amounts of snow up at Sundance and cold, too, which makes a visit to this installation even more Triptychy.
Local madman and Kanye West Lighting Designer John McGuire was tapped by Audemars Piguet the French Luxury Watchmaker to turn 2 Rodeo into a winter wonderland. He did. Well, we did with him. Insane design that had us flying versatubes over the uber-fancy guests, with fire pits and hot chocolate and baked brie and snow everywhere. Seemed ambitious and it was - Required installation over two nights, then striking everything to restore the street for tourists each day, before the show. The final re-installation happened 2 hours before doors. It looked trippy as hell which is exactly what a luxury french watchmaker should be shooting for as far as I'm concerned.
Ain't gonna happen, fellas. This is Lily Aldridge - She's a Victoria's Secret Angel which means she's like Charlie's favorite Angel. She's standing next to a 2 million dollar bra made of diamonds. VS brought us in to do a moving step and repeat backdrop for a press event. Pretty good idea actually as every photo of Lily is different because of the moving fireworks visuals behind her. We brought an LED wall in to the VS store on the third street promenade - no easy task. But it went up quickly and the client was happy and the press didn't complain too too much. I'm a Dodger fan, but I no longer hate the Angels for some reason.
Let's See - October 2015 brought us a big Viacom integrated marketing and concert event, an automotive tour, gigs with the New York Times and BET, outfitting a touring bus for our Jordanah friends and a bunch more. However, October 1995 was me and my mullet rockin' the ultimate partnership with my beautiful wife Cheryl, in New Jersey. Twenty years ago today, Oct. 22, we got married. Imagine that - we've had a couple of great gigs ourselves over the last two decades including a big one in 1997 (Charlie) and another in 2000 (Olivia). Maybe in 20 more years the mullet and the big Jersey hair will be back in style??
Happy Anniversary, Honey!
Seriously Magical environment here. This was a great example of an event where the gig looked better than the renderings. This photo really doesn't do it justice but it's all I got. Cheryl and Andrea and the Sequoia team designed this dream-land experience with crystals and shimmer and champagne. Such a cool place to hang out. This was a little bash for 5,000 across the street from the Microsoft Theater for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards. A bunch of happy winners and a whole lot more disappointed nominees-only. Oh well, we're not all fleeing war in Syria, so we'll keep our chins up. Shout Out to Matt Levesque for stellar lighting design.