richer colour

This is a place for all that inspries, provokes and interests me. Here I'll collect and collate, share and steal... I'm a production / lighting designer myself... work in theatre, television, concerts, dance parties and more. I own Mandylights (www.facebook.com/mandylights) - check it out if you want to know more about where I come from. Hopefully this place becomes a bit of a repository of ideas and cool concepts with the occasional bitch and moan about random crap.

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Little light artwork we created this week

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One of our designs for Vivid Sydney this year. Called willo-the-wisps

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Will-o-the-wisps at Vivid Sydney. Spent two days on hands and knees installing this but super happy with how it turned out.

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One of the favourite things we made this year.

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Throwback three years ago to lighting this. I enjoyed that just a bit.

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Artists Anthony Rowe, Gareth Bushell, Chris Bennewith, Liam Birtles, and Ollie Bown designed the piece in what they describe as “the culmination of a five year research project exploring interactive media experiences that occupy physical space”

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This amazingly annoys me. Five years of research? Bullshit. You bought a stock lighting / video product and hung it in lines. There's a fucking Disney parade float that does the same thing - drop the artistic bullshit and invent something cool.

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Here's what 1,200 universes of DMX looks like. This show is going to be big.

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Lit up the new national gallery of Singapore last weekend. That was fun.

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💡💡💡💡 (at Fonda Theatre)

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The Old Man and the Old Moon (Pigpen Theatre Co.) 

Designed by Lydia Fine and Bart Cortright

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All of the lights #gem #mandylights

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More pictures from my summerstock escapades. If you are in upstate NY come see The Wreckers at Bard College.

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This is amazing. Love the integration of light and scenic design.

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Timée

Light installation by Guillaume Marmin is an audio visual interpretation of an ancient Greek philosophical concept - video embedded below:

In roughly 360BC, Plato shared his dialogue Timaeus, in which he imagined the universe as a geocentric system, including a concept called Music of the Spheres where each planet had its own sonic tone based on its unique orbital revolution. The entire system was divided into an octave, a fifth, a fourth, and tone, and as all the planets revolved around the Earth, the solar system would comprise a perfect musical score.

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For over 30 years, American artist Peter Erskine has been playing with light. The idea is simple: Use laser cut prisms and place them in strategic spaces in order to put the emphasis on the surrounding architecture, be it old or modern. 

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Holy $#@%! There are so many things that seem impossible with this installation. Absolutely incredible how it seems to float in midair, create volume where there can’t be, etc. Not as impressive during the day, but that makes the night experience all that more impressive! Anyone up for a trip to Castle Horst (wherever that is)?

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ball of light + trees