Although most have been enjoying another banner year in 2023, the writers/actors strike is true pain for those directly affected. But bless our town, labor disputes don't seem to get in the way of folks hoping to win awards for their work. We had a very busy week supporting the super talented and capable Damminger Productions doing FYC events. Nat Geo and Disney+ did events to promote their projects in hopes of winning Emmys for Cinematography, Variety Specials, Technical Direction and others.
May the best project win, and may this strike end very soon!
Renowned luxury watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre came to Los Angeles to launch its inaugural US activation, The Golden Ratio Musical Show. We were invited to support with sound, lighting, and video. The activation debuted in Shanghai, then moved to Westfield Century City to expand the conversation around design and watchmaking. The show tells the story of the Golden Ratio – the "unique mathematical formula that defines aesthetic harmony". British composer Tokio Myers performed the soundtrack to the piece with a full orchestra, against a giant water screen which was rear-projected with video imagery. This is how brands are telling their stories!
Popsugar Play/Ground was a remarkable one-day live event held at ROW in DTLA, focusing on fitness, entertainment, beauty, and fashion retail. The gathering was conceptualized and executed by Vox Media, while our beloved client, Proud Robinson, spearheaded the production, inviting us to provide sound, lighting, video display, cameras, power and broadband distribution. Just such a great way for brands to interact with consumers, and to get some solid socials coverage to help spread the word. Very fun, very positive; the perfect day off! Soundtrack is sweetest power-pop song ever, by Matthew Sweet.
March is historically our second-busiest month of the year, and 2023 did not disappoint. Oscar gigs and loads of activations and a huge awards show at the Beverly Hilton and best of all, Weezer at the Roxy! Thanks to son Charlie and GV for putting big acts in small rooms – so fun. Can ya tell we love what we do?!
New year brings new gigs and great hope for another great year. I have no interest in slowing down, and in fact we're working on something new and exciting for later... I haven't posted on the facebooks in some time, but I do post my fave gigs every month on our website. I'm mostly posting this to share the background music to this video from SAMIA - please love her as I do, and come see her at the Fonda on March 2.
Let's do the hard work and keep the sweet gigs coming!
Hard to believe that gaming generates more revenue than Television, Film and Music industries combined. That means big shows, baby. The League of Legends World Championship took place at the Chase Center Arena in San Fransisco this past weekend. This is a gaming competition that toured Mexico City, New York City, Atlanta then San Francisco. All in big arenas. The production was insane – we did the exterior podcast area and big activation. That's our trip – custom, difficult stuff for big events. Smash success thanks to Chris and his crew of geniuses - It rained a bit, but whatevs – we handled it. Thanks to ConCom and Riot Games for including us!
Sad music by Low – RIP Mimi Parker.
Our boy Charles graduated in the middle of the gross Pandemic when no one was working, but a year later he was the General Manager of The Roxy Theater on Sunset. Amazing - running the joint at 23. Now Olivia has graduated (this year), and at 22 was on the Late Show this week with Will Arnett. She is working full time as a stylist and is rubbing noses and picking out cool clothes for some of Hollywood's biggest and brightest. And best of all, Goldenvoice pays for Charlie's health insurance! Here is Olivia participating in a gag with Will and James Corden, and Charlie dealing with a riot outside The Roxy just a few months in to his new job.
GO GUYS, GO!
We've been just absolutely cranking for the last two months, as have most in our industry. Very grateful for that. Cranking on gigs means no time for blog entries, so rather than showing 12 different ones, here is one of the funnest and biggest. D23 is of course the official fan club for all things Disney. The passion is so deep there is also a huge convention called D23, giving more access to lovers of The Mouse. Right Brain brought us along to build a big booth for them/Hulu, and Damminger Productions had us put up a big LED screen to premiere the new Pinocchio movie. Always upbeat and happy, unlike some of the political haters on them. Next time you are in Chianti, visit the little medieval village of Collodi – that's where Carlo Collodi was born, and he wrote the tales of Pinocchio there.
Fantasy never gets old...
Super sweet to get invited to this one again. I was told that this one got 100 million views – it had to be the studio it was shot in, right? Once again a super-fun, super-pro collaboration with the Television Academy at our studio in Atwater. As the client's tech guy said; "most stressful 12 minutes of my year!" Indeed, no room for any failures of any kind. All went off super Smooth. Talent worth honoring!!
Click to see the 2022 EMMY® AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT.
Terrific to be back at USC live, supporting the 2022 graduation. We've done this virtually for the last two years, and although we certainly livestreamed everything, we were there with the 70,000 other folks celebrating the epic accomplishment of about 19,000 students. We did LED screens and cameras and lighting and rigging, etc. We used the silly-simple, but extremely effective, Marching Order software to get the names of thousands of kids up on screens as they walked across the stages to collect their diplomas. Bittersweet, as my second and last kid also graduated from college this year.
¡Felicidades a todos!
We were all so excited and frankly surprised when our keynote speaker for GLAAD in New York didn't cancel. The producers booked Karine Jean-Pierre to speak, which would have been inspiring. However, 5 days before our event, Karine was named the new White House Press Secretary. Amazing! We would have given her a pass if she had to back out of our event, but she didn't! So lucky to be working with Germansky Communications to pull off these big events in both LA and NY. We did all LED, cameras, playback, lighting and broadcast truck. Thanks for the great gig, Eric!