LiveSpark

06/17/2024

The Outsiders wins 4 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Lighting Design. J+M Special Effects used our FirePixels to create moody billowy flames in a compelling scene where their versatility shines. Read more: https://www.livesparkfire.com/news/outsiders

04/14/2019

Zappos Battle Wagon soon to be driving around firing up the fans too!

10/31/2018

Some great behind-the-scenes footage and tv coverage from Right This Minute viral video show. http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/rtmtv-pumpkins-played-fire. Kevin Katich Danny Finneran.

What instrument do you play? Oh, that's cool, but can you play the pumpkins? Kavin Katich and Danny Finneran can and when they play the pumpkins they play with fire. It took them ten days of construction and over eight hours of pumpkin carving to create such an epic setup. via LiveSpark

10/30/2018

10/29/2018

We made this as a fun thing for Halloween in my back yard. It uses my own hand crafted piezo drum triggers stuck on to little pumpkins. When a drumstick hits the little pumpkin, the LiveSpark plugin in Ableton Live converts that signal to a flame effect command. The FirePixels and AfterBurners in the big pumpkins shoot flames in time to the drummer's taps. The harder the hit, the more fire. Some of the pumpkins are 1:1, meaning one hit triggers one flame. Other pumpkins are programmed so they trigger patterns of flames. In total we used 21 LiveSpark FirePixels and 9 AfterBurners running on two 25 gallon propane tanks. Fun!

06/26/2018

Milling about after LiveSpark Big Show. We set the flames to do some fun little patterns and people were able to walk under the set piece. Video credit: Ben Chun.

06/26/2018

Putting together over 75 FirePixels and AfterBurners to create atmospheric fire, where many moods are possible by setting precision control flame effects to music. "Stegosaurus" set piece built from Mike Thielvoldt and Lira Filippini's Lepidodgera butterfly art car's wings

06/25/2018

On Saturday night we did the first full run of the LiveSpark "Big Show." 75 flame effects all twinkling, flashing and blasting in time with music, including FirePixels, over a dozen AfterBurners and four double AfterBurners.

It was beautiful to have so many attendees and support, and sooo fun to have the team pull out all the stops to make it come together. Huge thanks to main man engineer Mike Thielvoldt for massive technical achievement and your moms for her beautiful house and extraordinary hosting, to Amy James for killer planning and crisp comms, big ups to Kim Harrison for turning a wrench and facilitating growth. Props to impromptu helpers Loren EC, Kasima Tharnpipitchai, Bashir Ziady and Morgan for showing up with helping hands, minds and burritos. To Jane Hu, Ben Matteo, and Ben Chun for beautiful photography, which is not easy to pull off at night with fire. To Tony Hsieh, Tyler Williams, Michael Downs for all your support over the years and incorporating this whistle stop on your SF bus adventure.

We've pulled ourselves up the next rung of the ladder. Now to make our fire shine brightly far and wide!

10/14/2016

Augmented climbing wall. Even better with fire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwticv9ai_Q&feature=youtu.be

You can find this climbing wall in Finland, but they're also available to order. http://augmentedclimbing.com/

08/15/2016

Such a tough gig. Setting up fire in the pool for tonight's Zappos party at Drai's Beach Club.

01/16/2016

Zappos Xtreme Drone Circuit first-person video cut. Excellent views of an amazing course.

01/09/2016

What's it like to fly first-person through this weekend's extreme drone obstacle course? I'm glad you asked: http://youtu.be/QIa6T2dU9SQ.

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