Winter Palace At Saks Fifth Avenue

Live Design: Saks Fifth Avenue's Winter Palace opened on November 23, 2015 with the façade's illumination design by LA-based lighting designer Chris Werner of Chris Werner Design, as part of the creative team led by Mark Briggs at Saks Fifth Avenue, who conceived the overall concept of the “Winter Wonders of The World.”

Projection Mapping On 3-D Objects: Researchers Print Onto Moving Objects

Science World Report: Researchers have created a new technology that allows projected images to be perfectly mapped onto moving and rotating objects. The team of researchers from Osaka University in Japan created a new technique that works so well, you would think that an image was precisely fixed onto a moving object.

A Wireless Mic Guide for the Church Tech

ChurchProduction.com: Regarding the forthcoming auction of radio frequency spectrum in the United States and its impact on wireless microphone use in your church, please be aware:

The sky is not falling.

Pantone Has Spoken: Rosy and Serene Are In for 2016

www.houzz.com: It’s another year and another controversial choice for color management company Pantone, which has released its picks for the top trending colors of 2016. It’s a pair of pastels that at first glance scream, “It’s a boy! And a girl!”

Top Eight Tools For The Live Audio Toolbox

Pro Sound Web: “Can you come to our church and run sound in a few weeks?” “Can you run sound for my band next weekend?”

Work as an audio geek long enough and you’ll get these questions, usually followed by the statement, “Don’t worry, we’ve got all the gear, you just need to show up.” Danger Will Robinson!

Member Spotlight: Eric Hart is a Master of Props

sightlines.usitt.org: Eric B. Hart, prop maker, Prop Master at Triad Stage in North Carolina, author of The Prop Building Guidebook, and editor of the Prop Agenda blog.

NikeTown Flash Retail Installation

Atomic Design: What does the largest and most complex installation to date at NikeTown New York look like? We’ll tell ya, it’s the Nike Flash product installation built by ATOMIC and managed by our Production Services team. Currently on display at NikeTown on 57th Street in Manhattan, the three-story window display boasts an LED node curtain that is constantly running content promoting the new Flash products.

Advancing The Show

Pro Sound Web: Being organized and prepared ahead of the gig is a huge key for the independent audio practitioner, a.k.a., Lone Audio Ranger.

As I write this article, I’m smack dab in the middle of a multi-day, mixed programming event – a live outdoor cooking show with lots of wireless, video playback, record feeds, musicians, and emcees. This event is impeccably organized with everyone on the same page, and for the most part, happy. I chalk it up as a success.

Young fogies: Modern illiberalism is led by students

The Washington Post: You’ve probably heard about “trigger warnings,” which alert readers or viewers that what lies ahead might be upsetting or offensive. Initially such warnings were intended to help protect sexual assault survivors from reliving their trauma.

But on college campuses, they have lately been demanded for all sorts of other displeasing material.

Living With Sound – What I Learned From A Cheap App

Pro Sound Web: I have a curmudgeonly hate for modern technology. I like roll-up windows and faucet handles and telling stupid electronics what to do, when, and at what volume. I avoid the automated doors at stores in favor of the pull-handle ones. I think there’s something to human beings, to humans BEING, that technology at its zenith can’t beat. In the world of life, this makes me a dinosaur. In the world of audio, it makes me an amoeba.

Upcoming musical Waitress tipped to make history for women on Broadway

The Guardian: The musical Waitress has not yet begun serving its specials onstage yet, but it will make history. Lorin Latarro, hired to choreograph the show, joins a female writer, composer and director. It’s the first time on Broadway that the four top creative spots in a show have been filled by women.

“The fact that it’s the first time across these four departments is an amazing moment,” said Tony awardwinner Diane Paulus, the director.

Ferdinand Stuflesser Handcrafts Artwork for Church Specification

Church Designer Magazine: The Ferdinand Stuflesser 1875 studio offers custom-made church interiors, statues and restoration, carried out by the same family for 136 years and five generations. All products are made in Italy. Depending on the complexity of the project, the studio often requires 3-6 months to complete its work, working with wood, bronze, marble and mosaic.

Rethinking the Makerspace

Campus Technology: When you consider the opportunities and challenges surrounding a technology offering on campus, do you focus on the specifics of that technology, or on its impact? Here, CT examines the impact of makerspaces with Penn State's Director for Teaching and Learning with Technology Kyle D. Bowen.

Theater Troupe Gives Those on the Margins a Front-Row Seat

The New York Times: There are no stage lights. Sets and props are minimal. Unadorned costumes evoke character more than period. The audience sits on all sides in folding chairs that seldom extend more than three rows back. Casting ignores race, gender and age.

How to Stay Safe and Stay Warm This Winter

Occupational Health & Safety: Winter is coming, when the annual battle to keep warm during the coldest months of the year begins. If you're lucky enough to work in a climate-controlled environment or in warmer temperatures, cold weather may seem like a foreign nuisance. But for thousands of us, managing the cold is a harsh reality.

Thinkwell Group Publishes Third Annual Guest Experience Trend Report

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: Thinkwell Group, a global experience design and production agency specializing in the creation of theme parks, major attractions, live events, and museum exhibits around the world, announces the findings of their third annual nationwide survey analyzing the behavior and purchasing decisions by guests at location-based entertainment venues in a white paper report titled "Intellectual Properties & The Branded Experience." The 2015 Thinkwell Guest Experience Trend Report focuses specifically on consumers' experiences at family-friendly location-based entertainment venues and explores whether infusing these venues with an intellectual property would increase the amount of time and money spent there by visitors.

Five Reasons You Have Undesired Performance

Occupational Health & Safety: Leaders set expectations and manage the influences on them, but some spend too much time managing displeasing results. No effective leader can truly expect perfect performance from every one of their direct reports, one hundred percent of the time. Those who have unrealistic expectations misunderstand human behavior and its influences and likely create undesirable work environments. Managing, coaching, or counseling undesired performance is an integral part of any leader's responsibilities. How is this handled in your organization?

The Mass Market Ain’t What It Used To Be (And What That Means For The Arts)

diacritical: What does it mean to “engage with an audience”? It’s a fundamental question for anyone who makes anything. Whether it’s a political party trying to win votes, Coke trying to sell drinks, an entrepreneur trying to sell an idea, or a theatre trying to sell tickets.

Whole industries thrive on trying to define, quantify and strategize engagement and building audience. It breaks down into three parts. Can you find an audience? Can you motivate it to respond in some desired way? Can you convince that audience to continue a relationship with you?

USITT Thanks NY Times, Theatre Community for Restoration of Design Credits

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: David Grindle, executive director of USITT, has issued the following letter concerning the New York Times' restoration of production credits in its theatre reviews.

"This is meant for everyone who expressed to the New York Times how important it is to recognize the FULL production team in their theatre reviews. It also goes to the folks at the New York Times for listening.

Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori on why musical theatre is the slowest to recognise it has a gender problem

www.smh.com.au: Of all the theatrical forms, musical theatre is slowest to recognise it has a gender problem, says the multi-award-winning Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori​ ahead of the Australian premiere of her musical Violet at the Hayes Theatre Company.

"We are by nature and nurture as women taught to collect and gather and smooth over," Tesori says. "If you want to make a difference, you have to be prepared to go against that, stand out and then wrestle with feelings that come from doing that."