I found this video on the internet and needed to tell everyone about my great friend and amazingly talented musician and musical director ADAM BLACKSTONE. Adam and i met in a freezing airplane hanger 3 hours outside of london in the dead of winter.... no we werent on a covert operation as military members, it was more like the first version of Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour. We spent many hours (locked) in rehearsals working on what would be one of the most amazing shows i have been apart of to date. Adam is one of todays BEST and highly saught after MD's. He is currently working with : Janet Jackson, Eminem, Demi Lovato, Lil Wayne, and just wrapped up the VH1 Divas Live show here in NY. Check out this video!!! and make sure to check out Adams website as well...

SLV' was brought in to design the performance for Nicki Minaj's west coast appearence on the Dick Clark Rockin New Years Eve 2012! Check out video of Nicki's Performance on the Dick Clark NYE special here!

Ladies and Gentlemen!!!! Upon the completion of our newly designed website i am pleased to show you and give a recap and VIDEO of the Electric Zoo Music Fest 2011!!!! Click to see and read more after the jump!

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Two nights ago on a long dark pier in the meatpacking section of NYC , a major event in fashion and music took place. 

The UK based retail chain of H&M brings on a guest designer each year to design a limited line that will be placed in certain retail locations. This year it was VERSACE.. well at the release and runway show, StarLight Visual 
was brought in by Nikci Minaj to light her performance in the evenings festivities, CHECK OUT THE PHOTO GALLERY HERE. The space was small but the crowd was into it, vibing to the jams.. Nicki ripped it up performing an onslaught of 7 of her top hits with her dancers in tow. 

More images to come waiting on some purchased photos to come through.. 

Check out this link for more info on the event..

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2011/11/fashion-news-nicki-minaj-prince-perform-at-versace-for-hm-party.html

I was contacted by Willo Perron and Associates to come and design the lighting for the performance of "Rise Above" from the Spiderman Musical featuring  Bono and The Edge on the finale of American Idol. All of this happened very quickly there were many challenges with integrating the web lighting into the set piece into the overall design of the tv show. The outcome was a great performance and beautiful photos.

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This month artist and friend Simon Henwood has an installation in the British Music Experience Museum housed housed as part of the 02 Music complex in London, UK.

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Check out the EXPRESS rock the sidewalk video from New York City that we shot this past July.

I designed the lighting for the show and film shoot of the runway show. We were going for the backstage/behind the scenes vibe , thats why all the stands and old school fresnels, cables everywhere, and big ole maxi brutes. When we were shooting this we reached record tempatures in NYC somewhere around 110 degrees!!!!! and all the models still look good, go figure!

SLV has been designing this series of show for express and producer Navia Vision since March of October 2010, Navia is a great team of fashion production folks who specialize in runway and photo shoots for the top fashion companies in the world. 

Special thanks to the help of Mike Finn Productionsfor providing Gaffers and Labor for all of the building and engineering of these designs.