Know your designers: Ken Billington
- He began his theatre career in NYC assisting Tharon Musser.
- Has won a Tony and Drama Desk Award for his lighting for Chicago.
"I always wanted to be an artist," the lighting designer Ken Billington says. "But I couldn’t paint. So I paint with light. I don’t use brushes. I use electricity."
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Know your Designers: Martin Aronstein
R367- Slate Blue was Marty Aronstein’s custom color. It apparently was an old Cinemoid color that was Marty’s favorite which he had Rosco re-create. Of course he was never happy with the color. It was missing something that couldn’t be re-created but he used it all the time.
He was humorously upset, tongue in cheek upset, when Rosco started naming gel after lighting designers. He’d yell, “367! Marty Blue! I told them to name it Marty Blue! Slate Blue. It isn’t even right! Slate Blue! It should just be Marty Blue!”
When we’d be dropping color at focus he’d yell up to the guys, “this one gets Marty Blue!”
We’d flip through the swatch books in the office looking for a color and he’d hold up Billington Pink, point at it, stick out his tongue, and roll his eyes. Every … single … time he saw it.
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