Digital Signage Experience 2024 Recap

www.signshop.com: The Digital Signage Experience took place in Las Vegas at the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center on December 9 and 10. The show featured innovative companies from all aspects of the digital signage industry from content management, to connectivity, to parts, to LED screens and more. One interesting theme, aside from the ever-increasing experiential LED trend, was the emergence of table-based touchscreen technology.

PLOT LUCK: 2024 RECAP

Live Design Online: Everybody loves a good plot, so you're in luck! Here's a recap of Live Design's Plot Luck stories from 2024, from the Super Bowl Halftime Show and Broadway shows to concert tours by way of Las Vegas. Check out the plots, gear lists, and comments by the designers on the lighting.

James Gunn's Superman Costume Had One Clear Directive Behind Its Design

www.slashfilm.com: Todays marks the moment when one phase of the DC universe has come to an end, while another officially begins. All eyes have been trained intently on DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn and, specifically, the grand unveiling of his newest reboot of the Man of Steel with "Superman."

How I made the costumes for the West End hit The Devil Wears Prada — and why I don’t care about the criticism

The Standard: It’s tricky to design the costumes for a show that is modern dress and, on top of that, uses fashion as the backdrop of the story. There is a lot of pressure to “get it right” but what that means exactly is hard to define.

“A Sherlock Carol” at Kinetic Theatre Company

The Pittsburgh Tatler: Dear Reader, if you’ve been keeping track, then you might note that this is the fourth Christmas-related production I’ve written about in the last month or so. You’d think that so much holiday entertainment would have me fully in the Christmas spirit, but given that a) I don’t celebrate the holiday and b) even if I did, November gave us a coal in our collective stocking, I’m instead feeling rather bah-humbuggish.

‘A Complete Unknown’: How Its Designers Brought Back Greenwich Village – and Bob Dylan’s Skinny Jeans

www.yahoo.com/entertainment: François Audouy and Arianne Phillips, the production designer and costume designer of “A Complete Unknown,” both benefited from the pandemic- and strike-related delays that gave them more time to prep for James Mangold’s look at the first few years of Bob Dylan’s career in New York City.

Building Materials Prices Stay Flat in November Despite YOY Lumber Price Growth

Builder Magazine: Prices for inputs to new residential construction were unchanged in November despite a 13.7% year-over-year increase in softwood lumber prices, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Relighting The UNESCO Heritage Mosaics Of Duomo di Monreale

Live Design Online: The 850-year-old Duomo di Monreale in Monte Caputo, overlooking Palermo, Italy, is a national monument and UNESCO heritage site. Famous for its Norman architecture and extraordinary 6,340-square-meters of mosaics illustrating key scenes from the Bible, the Cathedrale unveiled new architectural lighting in early December.

Controversy Clouds the International Circus Festival of Las Vegas

StageLync: While Europe boasts a long history of prestigious competition-style circus festivals—some running for over four decades and showcasing exceptional talent year after year —North America has struggled to carve out its own equivalent.

Now You Can Learn AI Filmmaking at NYU—What This Means for Film Schools

No Film School: As AI continues to forge ahead at full speed, industries and institutions are doing their best to embrace and keep up with these new technologies. And despite a growing sense of concern and distrust by many film and video pros regarding how these different AI models train their algorithms, more big names continue to explore how they can be a part of the AI video revolution.

ALPD Awards Four New Fellowships

Live Design Online: At the Annual Lighting Lunch held on Monday 16 December, the Association for Lighting Production and Design (The ALPD) awarded 4 new Fellowships to Peter Hunter, Steve Huttly, Nick Peel and Alan Luxford. Introducing the new Fellows, Chair of the ALPD, Johanna Town, said “This year our ALPD fellowships go to four very dedicated lighting individuals, who have spent a lifetime’s career in our amazing industry.”

Community Theatres May Not Last: How You Can Support

StageLync: I was excited to go to the play and dressed up as I grew up believing that’s what you do for theatre. The neon sign and lit up boards highlighting their upcoming shows was nostalgic and I felt almost transported back to being a child getting to experience it all again for the first time. Due to long hours of working in the industry, and being on the road so often, it has been rare for me to help support local theatre as much as I would have liked the past few years.

The History of the Nutcracker Ballet

StageLync: The two act Christmas story has been on stage since its premier a week before Christmas in 1892 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. However, the show didn’t expand to western countries until the 1940s, nearly 50 years after its original debut. While everyone these days knows of the tale of young Clara and her Christmas Eve adventure, not many know of the origins of the classic bedtime story.

The Best Public Art of 2024, according to Curators

Artsy: This year has been marked by visionary projects that push boundaries, foster meaningful engagement with the public, amplify diverse voices, and unite communities. Through the transformative power of public art, these works have inspired connection, dialogue, and a more profound sense of belonging.

‘I cut my knees open’: Romola Garai on the agonies unleashed by hit play The Years

Theatre | The Guardian: When people ask me what The Years is like, I’m not sure how to answer. The play is an adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s slim book in which, with scalpel-like prose, she details her life from the end of the second world war to present-day France. From a provincial childhood to grammar school and university, she moves through the 1960s counterculture and changes to the social order, then on into motherhood and life in the suburbs, our all-encompassing capitalism, the freedom of divorce and a late-flowering sexual awakening.