In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and Sistah !) discuss everything from Oceanfront Property to Where are all the Ladies? Join Ellen, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: The latest news from St. Barts; Ellen's hurricane forcast; The Semi-Annual Light Talk Brain Trust Conference; Lighting sets that are pushed out over the apron; Felix the Nebbish; Why are men dominating design positions?; Death by college debt; Administrative Bloat; Is college really necessary?; "That Inf...
Sep 03, 2022•54 min•Season 6Ep. 283
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Coming to America to A Surprise Call . Join Stan, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: The lighting designer's workflow; Some advice for designers who want to work in the US; The "secrets" to lighting Opera; Expanding the definition of "Lighting Designer"; and Balancing your professional life with your academic responsibilities. Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sense....
Aug 27, 2022•51 min•Season 6Ep. 282
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from The Value of Diplomacy, to Upset Paralegals . Join Stan, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: New Light Talk LDI Gear and Show Time; A message from Snoot; How to choose a color palette; The most important lighting design skill; When do you know its time to hire more help?; Responsibilities of being an employer; Wham-It Corporation's Trans-Portable Tech Table Tranquility Spa; Is Zoom an effective tool in teaching li...
Aug 20, 2022•55 min•Season 6Ep. 281
In this episode of LIGHT TALK ("After Dark"... Mature Audiences Only), The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Educating Directors in Projections to " The Light Talk Fez". Join Zak, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: Tales from Camp Granada; Weird times at The Fountainebleau Hotel; Starting graduate school at an advanced age; How much universities pay for guest designers; How to deal with directors who are using projections for the first time; Mork and Mindy; "Everyone is a sound ex...
Aug 13, 2022•49 min•Season 6Ep. 280
In this very special episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and SISTAH!) try out a new format for LIGHT TALK. After five and a half years, the Lumens answer their listeners' questions live on the show. Join Ellen, Stan, David, and Steve, as they welcome listeners Dennis, Jay, Paula, Drew, Doug and Campbell's qustions that cover everything from Front Light Techniques to Career Networking. Listen to the Lumens and their guests pontificate about: Promoting and marketing yourself; The ETC Mentor...
Aug 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 279
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Light Organs to Topo Gigio. Join Stan, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: "The Trio of Insanity"; Covid Cough; The Howell Binkley Fellowship; The issues with technology that is changing "much too fast"; How to create a color palette with 8 million color possibilities; The Adobe Palette Tool; Should we be afraid of LED engine failures?; "Repel O' Scent Theatre and Garden Spray"; How artificial intelligence may be ...
Jul 30, 2022•55 min•Season 6Ep. 278
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and SISTAH!) interview Broadway Veteran and Legend of Light, Beverly Emmons. Join Beverly, Ellen, Stan, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: The influence of the great pioneers of stage lighting design; Working with Jules Fisher; The challenges of gender in the theatre profession; Designing for Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and Robert Wilson; Commercial Theatre; Changes in Broadway over the years; and The "Tik Tok Zeitgeist". Nothing ...
Jul 23, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 277
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Alternative Gobos to Strange Organ Grinders. Join Stan, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: Strand filing for bankrupcy; Letters to Light Talk Central; The Rabid Monkeys return; Is live theatre about to die?; Only Lumen Brother left Covid-free; How much should your assistants get paid?; Should we start getting paid by the hour?; "Showing off your stuff"; Bad Hombre' Productions; Why are stage design and production...
Jul 16, 2022•49 min•Season 6Ep. 276
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Running Out of Time to News From Camp Granada. Join Zak, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: Fast Lumens; Dexter, Texas tales; LDI's Projection Mapping Summit; Priorities and techniques for when you are running out of time; Overbooking yourself; Cheeky Rigger Scents; Will projectors eventually replace stage lighting fixtures?; and College Debt... Is there a better way? Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very...
Jul 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 275
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Polluting the Stage Atmosphere to Maligning Monkeys and Ducks. Join Stan, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: A tribute to Pat Pearce; Pancake House memories; Stan's Stanbattical; Tom Munn; The "Female Larry King"; Central City news; Cheap haze effects; A Hot Plate, an Iron Skillet, and Salammoniac; Smoking Oregano; More Light; Getting good light shafts; Stan's physics buddies; Kosher Space Lazers; "The Time to Ha...
Jul 02, 2022•49 min•Season 6Ep. 274
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Designing with Covid, to Linking Up. Join David, Zak, and Steve, as they pontificate about: Celebrating Fathers' Day with Liquid Plumber; Deconstructing Dance; Using Selective Focus; Following the light of the story; Linking projection and lighting cues; Writing Stupid Cues; Where is the climax?; "The Lumen Brothers' The Crucible Road Trip"; Pulling light away; The SUK2000; No, Boys and Girls... We are not out of the woods...
Jun 25, 2022•44 min•Season 6Ep. 273
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and SISTAH) interview Tony and Drama Desk award winning lighting designer, Bradley King. Join Bradley, Ellen, and David, as they pontificate about: Audience Blinders; Transitioning from directing to lighting design; The importance of working on small shows; Flying Over Sunset ; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 , and Hadestown ; Early professional mentors; Moving smaller shows to Broadway; Dealing with Monsters in the theatre; Import...
Jun 18, 2022•39 min•Season 6Ep. 272
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and SISTAH) interview Lighting Designer and Tony Award nominee, Jiyoun Chang. Join Jiyoun, Ellen, Stan, and Steve, as they pontificate about: Transitioning from acting to lighting design; "Go Brooklyn College!"; Quick move to Broadway; "Slave Play"; Dealing with mirrored walls and LED panels; Jiyoun's lighting approach for "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf"; Pre-production research; Don't go straight to "l...
Jun 11, 2022•39 min•Season 6Ep. 271
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Singing Chipmonks to "The Gas-Man". Join David, Stan, and Steve, as they pontificate about: Where should "Light Talk Central" be located; Ultra-MAGA in Ludicrous Mode; The correct way to hang a triangle truss; Satanic possessed kitchen appliances; Horizontal Toasting Techniques; Dead Hung pipes; How do you know when your career is over; and All those VL1000's. Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sens...
Jun 04, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 270
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Bumper Hats to Disco Dancing. Join Zak, Stan, and Steve, as they pontificate about: The Beverly Hillbillies and Bad Borsch Belt jokes; Is "Hot Patching" a bad idea?; The "50-cent rule"; Sealing off the lighting and stage manager booths; Playing with Speeding Volkswagons; Designing productions to tour; Buying video tiles from "Big Pete"; Illegitimate Panda's "The Little Brother" Truss Monkey powered moving light; Do you rec...
May 28, 2022•53 min•Season 6Ep. 269
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Nosey Directors to Promotional Condoms. Join Ellen, Stan, and Steve, as they pontificate about: Is the design field overcrowded?; Should you explain your light plot to a director?; What is a "Practical Electrician"?; Out With the Old... In With the New; "Junk Drawer Starter Kit"; Concrete theatre decks; and Choosing the right type of truss. Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sense....
May 21, 2022•42 min•Season 6Ep. 268
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from The New Cyberlight LED to Making a "Fog Juice Cocktail". Join Stan, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: Winner of "The Alice Quote of the Week Contest"; 300,000 downloads; Tony Award Nominees; Calpis returns!; Diluting fog juice; Letters of Recommendation; Negotiating your design fee; Our review of the Cyberlight LED and the Lonestar; White, gray, or black projection screens; The " Lampie Yum-Yumbox" and Saving yo...
May 14, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 267
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from The Elon Musk of STEAM Centers to The Art of the White Lie. Join Stan, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: Our upcoming Cyberlight review; The future of High School Theatre training; What comes next after LED fixtures in the concert world; The "Sit a Spell Focus Tool"; IP65 movers in foggy conditions; and Horrific lighting boom disasters ("Oh! The Humanity...) Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little M...
May 07, 2022•42 min•Season 6Ep. 266
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Talking Breaker Boxes to The Genius of Shep Gordon. Join Zak, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: The new Alice Cooper tour; Celebrity Chefs; The Alice Quote of the Day Contest; Moving lights for a 12' ceiling; Introducing video into the worship experience; White Rabbit; Where to go to college to prepare for Disney; Taking a "gap year"; All about media servers; The "GrandPA"; Promoting yourself; and Strange buzzin...
Apr 30, 2022•51 min•Season 6Ep. 265
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (AND SISTAH!) discuss everything from Basement Dwellers to Rock n' Roll Pirates. Join Ellen, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: Proper Passover etiquette; Latest LDI 2022 news; Moving lights for a lecture and piano recital hall; Must haves for travel and tour; Tour buss sanitation rules; Down Booties vs. Zorries!; $500 for a gig?... WTF?; What to do with those extra N-95's; When should the lighting designer be brought in on a project?; ...
Apr 23, 2022•46 min•Season 6Ep. 264
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Textbook Publishing Corruption to Sucking for Success! Join Zak, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: The practical life of LED fixtures; Are printed textbooks obsolete?; Finding up-to-date technical research; Corrupt publishing companies; The secret lives and resposibilities of projection designers; How to secure content royalties; Indemnity Clauses; Specifying media servers and lighting controllers; That nasty cr...
Apr 16, 2022•40 min•Season 6Ep. 263
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Power Distros to Playing for Pork! Join Stan, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: The Grammy Awards; U/RTA Showcase; Vectorworks Scholarships; Should you reverse the gender in a power distro?; "Beer 30"; Resurrecting Tesla; Magnifying Transmitters; Is additive color mixing a thing of the past?; Assigning shows for student designers; "Production Table Strategic Security System"; Should there be alternatives to Vect...
Apr 09, 2022•51 min•Season 6Ep. 262
In this first episode of Season 6 of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Time Management to Boxing Night at the Oscars! Join Zak, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: Beautiful Design and Immature Hijinks at the Oscars; The Wisdom of Addison DeWitt; How to avoid running out of time in techs; The design process when collaborating with video and lighting designers; Setting up your production table space; Pig techniques; Students in crisis; and Becoming colleagues with yo...
Apr 02, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 261
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and Sistah!) celebrate their 5th Anniversary with friend and lighting designer extraordinair, Natasha Katz. Join Natasha, Ellen, Stan, David, and Steve, as they pontificate about: Natasha's journey into lighting design; Favorite light sources; "MJ" The Michael Jackson musical; Dealing with "four-wall" Broadway shows; "Diana" - adapting a show for streaming; Giving birth to, and during, "EFX"; Lighting The Boss on Broadway; Collaborating with Chr...
Mar 27, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 260
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and Sistah!) interview lighting and visual designer Koert Vermeulen. Join Koert, Ellen, Stan, and Steve, as they pontificate about: The genesis of ACT; Koert's involvement in the Flag Handover Ceremonies at the Olympic Closing Ceremonies; Flying and designing during the pandemic; Who hires you for the Olympics and do you get paid on time?; Designing from a hermetically sealed hotel in China; Political resistance to design choices; How Koert uses...
Mar 19, 2022•54 min•Season 5Ep. 259
In this "Best of Light Talk" episode of LIGHT TALK (originally aired on January 20, 2020), the Lumen Brothers interview production designer, producer, director, and legendary rock n' roll lighting designer, Marc Brickman. Join David, Marc, Stan, and Steve as they pontificate about: Designing in the moment; The theatrical nature of Marc's designs; Bruce Springsteen and how to be spontaneous; Wild Syncs; Lighting without time-code; David Byrne and the artistic connection; Jazz and staying in the g...
Mar 11, 2022•56 min•Season 5Ep. 258
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from The Next Light Source to Post Modern Madness! Join Stan, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: USITT in Baltimore; Convention Centers in Key West; Fog juice and moving lights; When is LED going to disappear?; Blacking out running lights; The Blues System; "Who is this Robert Wilson guy?"; Holding onto your directors; and Some advice for High School lighting designers. Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Li...
Mar 05, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 257
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from Snow in Las Vegas to Getting Screwed when Your Show Moves! Join Brackley, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: Special guest for the 5th Anniversary Show revealed!; Protecting your Intellectual Property; When should you be accused of "Selling Out"; Not getting screwed when your show is moved; Short circuits explained; Designing for Ham; "Yee-haw" and "Pish-Posh" projects; Just say "No"; and Our favorite gobos. Noth...
Feb 26, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 256
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers (and Sistah!) welcome renowned Lighting Designer and Executive Vice President of Design for The Lighting Design Group, Dennis Size. Join Ellen, Dennis, Steve, Stan, and David, as they pontificate about: LIGHT TALK goes Intergallactical!; Juggling the Super Bowl and the Olympics at the same time; Everything Comcast; Multiple stages around SoFi Stadium; Specifying equipment appropriate for the environment; Running and Gunning at the Super Bowl; The...
Feb 19, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 255
In this episode of LIGHT TALK, The Lumen Brothers discuss everything from the Olympic Opening Ceremonies to Rockin' the Schul! Join Zak, Steve, and David, as they pontificate about: Zak's son's Bar Mitzvah; Justin at NYU; The mistakes of rushing to scrap tungsten fixtures in leu of LED; New IP65 LED fixtures; How to clearly communicate lighting cue placements to the stage manager; How to manipulate the power of the console to create more precise cue placements; Backtiming; What to do when projec...
Feb 12, 2022•46 min•Season 5Ep. 254
