NEWYORK, NY—Unlimited Visibility Lighting Design’s (UVLD) visual media developer Cameron Yeary lent his programming expertise and creative input to the big-screen video content for the 2009 world tour of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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Bruce Sprinsteen is on tour with UVLD and G-Lux screens. |
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Supporting the band’s latest album, Working on a Dream, the tour previewed in Asbury Park, NJ’s Convention Hall in March, officially launched in San Jose, CA in April, and played U.S. dates through May.
Yeary was initially contacted by Pete’s Big TV, which needed a Hippo programmer for the band’s Asbury Park rehearsals. Video content for the giant 1700 x 600 Lighthouse LED wall was still undetermined at the time, but the production team wanted to interface the Hippo with grandMA, grandMA Lite, and AVO Diamond One consoles.
“We started using Hippo very sparingly on a few shows last year,” notes Guy Benjamin of Pete’s Big TV. “This year they wanted to expand its use, but we’re a video company and don’t have a tremendous amount of experience with servers and their interface of lighting console control. Cameron came highly recommended, so we asked him to come to Asbury Park. He helped us put the system together efficiently and took the initiative to help create the content, program it, and train all of our people to run the Hippo.”
Benjamin points out that, “Bruce has historically eased into video, adopting it more with each tour. We’ve been working with him about 10 years now, and his lighting designer, Jeff Ravitz, is great to work with.”