10/23/2008
The past two years have seemly flown by - and as such my website
has suffered from additions with what we have been into. LDI 2008 is
happening this week in Las Vegas, and as I geared up to head over tomorrow,
I realized I should update the website. The past couple years have
blessed me with some great shows where I met and worked alongside some super
people. Most recently was the 2008 Bermuda Music Festival (my fifth year) -
where I operated the video system Hippotizer media servers for Great Sound
and Lighting A/V alongside an awesome video crew (Louie, Ed, Coady, Matt,
and Jorge - thank you!) as well as lighting alongside my long time friend
Warren Flynn. The headline acts this year were: Beyonce, Solange, Alicia
Keys, Lyfe Jennings, UB40, Aaron Neville, and The Whisperers. We met some
and supported the headline act crews alongside running the show for the 30+
local artists. Always a great time in Bermuda - thank you Barry, James,
John, Starre, Jim, Richard, Kye, Apples. Gee hope I got you all!!
Shows over the past couple years have been with: General Motors, Wendys,
Sprint, Novartis, and Astrazeneca events primarily alongside Joe West and
Images in Illuminations, but also with Greatsound, RGB Lights, Intelligent
Lighting Creations, and PRG.
Also this year we have partnered with Digital Stage Chicago - where Joe West and I have combined gear and resources to provide digital lighting solutions for our clients - offer a training ground where we provide one-one consultation and assistance for projects requiring digital lighting solutions from people working in the fast paced corporate event environment for tours, installations, television, and themed project support. We currently own many Hippoitizer v3 HD and Stage media servers, DL2's, Axon, Archaos, Union, mBox Extreme digital lighting products alongside Wholehog III, grandMA, and Magic-Q consoles with a pre-vizualization environment offering ESP Vision and WYSIWYG. Basically this all evolved from the December 2006 Astra project described below. Now approaching its second year Digital Stage Chicago encompasses a good deal of my time. We offer and host quarterly Hippotizer v3 training sessions TMB, and Green Hippo in addition to opening our doors to manufacturer and product solution providers such as ETC, PRG, RGB Lights,. Digital Stage Chicago is located at: 821 Sivert Drive, Wood Dale, IL 60191
Dunaway Designs has also completed a number of web projects over this time for: Sprint National Sales Meeting, Paradise Coffee - Cayman, and photographers Doug Olson and Stephen Martin. My next website goal is to redesign this site!
12/10/2006:
Christmas came early for me this year and Santa delivered five
DL2's to us at Images in Illuminations studio the day before Thanksgiving.
The goal was to pre-program segments of a show that would premiere in four
separate cities the same week. To pull this off we put together a make shift
setup in the studio, designed and laid out our content, then started
programming segments to time coded videos bringing SMPTE into the console. Currently it is still running in
Dallas, Boston, and now Atlanta. The effort of pre-visualization gave us
a certain leg up on the show. Many thanks to designer/programmers in each
city (Paul Sharwell, Jeff Nellis, Warren Flynn, and Joe West) for putting
the remaining layers of the show together - this one was alot of fun.
Also I want to thank Jeff Washburn and Matt Schiefelbein of Highend for helping me initially get around and further get the most out of the DL2's - which we really like!! As for the remainder of the year I am completing other web design projects that are slated to be finished the final week before I break off for the holidays!!
(Pre-programming at Images in Illuminations)
(Finally night - time to really play)
(a 2x2 collage - cool !)
(Panel Pre-programming)
(Dallas Cueing - DL2's are on 4 Panels in front of 3 RP Screens)
(contrast was the key)
(cool water segment)
(busy traffic segment)
(rollercoaster segment)
(ending segment - over 60' of pure projection !!)
10/17/2006:
Just returned from my favorite annual gig as a guest
artist/technician with the Bermuda Music Festival. This is my fourth year
working with everyone from Great Sound and Lighting and Stage Door
Productions. We also this year had the pleasant welcome of Star Markham
owner of Stageworks Lighting in Raleigh, NC along for the ride. What a blast
- rained every night just after each show - during strike - but hey its part
of the fun! While in BDA I also met with photographer Vincent Roberts who we
will be designing a new website for. November through December look
promising with LD work for Images in Illuminations and the re-staging of
The
Way of the Wiseguy in Atlantic City, NJ for DarkLight
Productions.
Bermuda Music Festival - LD/Programmer for "Onion" and "Whaler" Stages.
09/24/2006:
Digital Lighting consultant for PRG serving Full Flood Lighting and NBC Studios. Used Hippotizer media server controlled by WholeHog II lighting console to send output to the Element Labs Versatube walls in the two interview areas. Pics below.
08/17/2006:
Working on new website for
Great Sound and Lighting.
Most recently I worked on Lollapalooza 2006 as ME with Accenting Images. In July worked with Images in Illuminations (Joe West) as ALD on a Todd Street Productions week long training meetings in Scottsdale, Arizona (pics below).
(photos courtesy Images in Illuminations)
07/15/2006:
Finished initial phase of site design for EgoGolf
of Ponte Vedra, FL. This project involved recreating the logo as a vector
graphic to be the focus of the flash movie on the front end. Subsequent site
consists of a CSS/PHP/MySQL back end. Later phases are to tie in with
existing Java based database sites that store player information on this
unique GPS/PDA product. We will also be designing the graphic navigation
elements for future software updates on the device.
05/05/2006:
Work was completed for Astrazeneca COE in Palm Springs, CA. Many thanks to
ME Alan Schwartz and Account Manager Joe Golden of
Stage-Tech Lighting (LA, CA) for
their excellent work on this project for LD Joe West of
Images in Illuminations.
During same week I served as LD/Programmer on the Verizon QBR meetings in Reston, VA produced by Richard Roeder of Plexus Productions. Stephen Balazs with Atmosphere Lighting served as our ME - thanks for a great job Stephen. I also had the pleasure of meeting and working with Audio Engineer Joe Turiczek of Audio-Lotion Orlando, FL.
Lighting Design - Verizon QBR - Reston, Va.
04/30/2006:
Accenting Images of Cary, IL
asked us to do some quick renderings for a truss arrangement in a park
focusing on an Airstar helium lighting balloon.
04/24/2006:
Dunaway Designs is working on both fan and eCommerce sites for
Nashville Star Finalist Nicole Jamrose. Good Luck Nicole!!
This week we also finished an online fileserver system for Plexus Productions. This system allows for client upload folders, individual group and user logins and a host of other features that are all accessed via a web browser session on either PC/Mac.
04/08/2006:
ALD/ME Verizon Business Legends Awards at Fairmont Hamilton, Bermuda
with Plexus
Productions. Creative Director: Joe West, Lighting Designer: Warren
Flynn.
Following week served as LD and programmer for 2006 International Squash Tournament in Hamilton, Bermuda with Great Sound and Lighting. (pics to follow)
The day following my return to Chicago I was contracted by ILC to reprogram Catalyst and DL1 cues for The Way of the Wiseguy currently running at the Chicago Performing Arts Center. This involved re-cueing a show originally programmed with 2 Catalyst media servers and 3 DL1s to only 1 Catalyst media server and 1 DL1 - essentially a downsize of equipment, but definitely a complicated task completed in approximately a day and a half on a show I had no prior involvement in. Many thanks to David Wagner TD and Director of Operations at the CPAC.
Also during March 06' we completed two web designs:
02/23/2006:
LD and
programmer for Motorola Reception Party at the Hyatt Woodfield with
Intelligent Lighting Creations.
01/15/2006:
Off to a busy start this year with two new clients (Dataflo
and Gene Rider Photography).
For Dataflo we are currently redesigning their website and business
marketing graphics material. Gene's website was created in FrontPage to
allow him to edit the site. I say "we" because a new developer/programmer
has joined up with me on the Dataflo site and two additional site redesigns
currently in the works (Best
Image Store and
Images in Illuminations).
Martin McWhorter came onboard in late December to bring his talents into the collaborative circle. Martin has been working with PHP, MYSQL, Javascript, Pearl and a host of other programming languages for over 10 years. Martin is also looking at a unique Active Directory database connection for one or our client's separate rental and accounting database packages.
On the show front we recently designed custom Catalyst animations graphics for the Verizon Business launch in Nashville, Tennessee last month. I plan to get some pics from the show up on my portfolio page very soon. Actually the entire portfolio page is soon to be online - its been a busy past two months and this site unfortunately takes a back burner when I become swamped.
Another individual I am teaming up with is Steve Dubay - Steve brings many years of lighting design and console and WYSIWYG programming into the camp. My proficiency with Hog programming has been primarily toward the Catalyst, and as an LD I have counted on Steve in the past to bring my designs to life. So am happy to have him onboard as we continue pursuing production work. This site will highlight some of Steve's work on the portfolio - err.. when it is up.
Last week I had the chance opportunity to meet Mike Novesel, the Master Electrician for the production of Wicked at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago. Mike had a backup Catalyst media server issue that we were able to sort out over the phone. Thanks again Mike for dinner and the backstage tour - am anxious to see the show!
Other than Catalyst another media server platform I am toying with is Livid Instruments Union. This is an enticing program. However similar to Arkaos am finding it grinds to a halt if more than one NTSC media clip is mixed - so am dropping these to 640x480 to test the results. Catalyst (to me) still plays back multiple NTSC media clips better, and having now worked with v4, is still my preferred media server platform.
12/14/2005:
| Bermuda Jazz Festival providing production support. As always a joy working with the guys at Great Sound. Thanks John, James, & Barry. |
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